WP 2.9 image insertion no longer allows url to off site resource

If you are making a gallery of images and go to the HTML editor you can not see the code to edit it so you can not fit it.

This would be a good solution if one would actually add the image to the post, but in my case, I don’t do that.

I’ve programmatically added the attached images of the post/page you’re viewing to a slideshow in the header of my template, by using this code:

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
      <?php
			$args = array(
				'post_type' => 'attachment',
				'numberposts' => -1,
				'post_status' => null,
				'post_parent' => $post->ID
				);
			$attachments = get_posts($args);
			if ($attachments) {
				foreach ($attachments as $attachment) {
					echo "<div class=\"slide_item\">";
					echo apply_filters('the_title', false);
					the_attachment_link($attachment->ID, true);
					echo "</div>";
					echo "";
				}
			} else {
			?>
        <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/defaultimage.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a>
<?php } ?>

        <?php endwhile; else: ?>
<!-- no images found //-->
			<?php endif; ?>

The -quite excellent- trick with this is that the webmaster can just upload a couple of images to the post/page, hit ‘save changes’ and the code does the rest…

but, when viewing the slideshow in my browser, the manually added link is not saved. I also noticed this link is not stored in the database, which is quite a PITA since I really need that feature.

Would there be any workaround for this? It would save my day 🙂 Thnx for any assistance!

I’m having the same issue as well. Running WPMU 2.9.1.

Looks like this issue has been fixed: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12315

I haven’t been able to confirm it though.

It’s not fixed because I’m having the same frustrating issue with 2.9.2.

In my case the the gallery HTML is only short code: [gallery orderby="rand"]. I need to be able to update the Link URL to a video hosted on Vimeo and it won’t take no matter what I try. It just keeps reverting back to the default URL. Has anyone found a fix to this yet?

Thanks Rogermh,

I downloaded and did a comparison using WinMerge on all the files & folders in wp-admin & wp-includes with the copy I’m using and nothing flagged as being different which leads me to believe it has not been fixed.

I am also waiting for a solution. Have the latest version but still will not allow me to insert a link to another website in an image!