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1. gschendel
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have done have read the material available on the forums regarding this issue, and am posting because I am having trouble making the given work around work.

   I am using a plug-in (Photo Dropper version 1.0.8) to add creative commons licensed photos from Flickr. I am trying to add credit in the caption of these photos, since the layout of the page always seems to fall apart otherwise. The workaround I found on the forums simply said to use single (') quotations around the url within the html of the link rather than the usual ("). I tried this with no success, though I am still learning html and not quite proficient yet.

   I followed these steps:

   1. used photodropper to insert a photo in a post
   2. inserted a caption
   3. switched to html mode to change the (") to (') around the url of the photographer.

   I either ended up with no link, though one time I got a link but it was about the photo somehow. Another time a good bit of the html code was included in the link within the caption.

   Please help with some beginner friendly instructions for this work around, I would really appreciate it. If you would like to look at the beginning of my site it is balancedfromwithin.com.

2. matphoto
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   i guess you could try this

   • change < to  & l t ;
   • change " to  & # x 2 7 ;
   • change > to  & g t ;

   try changing all instances of those (ignore the extra spaces) throughout the link code in html mode.

3. gschendel
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thank you for the response, I will try it and let you know what happens.

4. gschendel
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I changed the symbols as instructed with the html ending up like this:

   &|t;a title='Indiana Dunes' href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/14529257@N03/4618667700/' target='_blank'>&|t;img style='border: 0pt none;' src='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4618667700_5d65fd6f04_m.jpg' border='0' alt='Indiana Dunes' width='180' height='240' />&|t;/a>

   &|t;small>&|t;a title='Attribution License' href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/' target='_blank'>
   &|t;/a>&|t;a title='Art By Steve Johnson' href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/14529257@N03/4618667700/' target='_blank'>&|t;/a>&|t;/small>

   and ended up with this exactly in the visual:

   &|t;a title='Indiana Dunes' href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/14529257@N03/4618667700/' target='_blank'>&|t;img style='border: 0pt none;' src='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4618667700_5d65fd6f04_m.jpg' border='0' alt='Indiana Dunes' width='180' height='240' />&|t;/a>

   &|t;small>&|t;a title='Attribution License' href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/' target='_blank'>
   &|t;/a>&|t;a title='Art By Steve Johnson' href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/14529257@N03/4618667700/' target='_blank'>&|t;/a>&|t;/small>

   there was no photo left. Did I do something wrong?

5. gschendel
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   How do I get help with this? I am willing to do my own research, I just need to be pointed in the right direction.

6. matphoto
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'm not familiar with photodropper, but I know that WordPress uses a shortcode for its caption, so is your link code and image code within this shortcode like so?

   [caption id="blah" align="blah" width="blah" caption=" YOUR LINK CODE HERE "] YOUR IMAGE CODE HERE [/caption]

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