Embed Images in wordpress.org Support Forum

[designextreme]

Please can there be a proper way in embed images in a post/reply in the WordPress Support Forums?

Have a link to an external website to handle a screenshot or a direct link to the image is not suitable in some instances. I have also noticed that some of the screenshot hosting websites used by users are pretty dodgy – one returned a warning when attempting to load in Firefox.

Personally, I would love to create a sticky post illustrating some of my plugin’s shortcode with their results visually.

[Steven Stern (sterndata)]

We had it working for a while for some image hosting services, but…

Anyhow, I use imgur.com to post the image and, when adding to a post, use this format:

See https://i.imgur.com/9Dn8mWK.png

<a href="https://i.imgur.com/9Dn8mWK.png"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/9Dn8mWK.png" target=_blank></a>

It can be fixed, but it’s a matter of finding fitting it in to the outstanding “meta” tickets on trac.

[designextreme]

That works?

Just giving it a go…

[designextreme]

Yes it does! 🙂

I’ll use this service in my forum posts. I assume that it is only for imgur.com and not generally?

Thank you.

[Steven Stern (sterndata)]

I use a screen cap tool (Flameshot) that has a built-in upload to imgur, so that’s what I use. You can use any image host and just modify your HTML accordingly.

I also use the auto-text expander for Chrome to make it a lot easier to paste the HTML:

See %clip%

<a href="%clip%"><img src="%clip%" target=_blank></a>

• This reply was modified 6 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).

[designextreme]

Pretty straight-forward. Thanks @sterndata!

And, after the edit, I’ll be ok with the full 2x same text string… it’s just going to happen very occasionally.

• This reply was modified 6 months ago by designextreme. Reason: Second sentence

[say_hello]

hello dear all

many many thanks for the thread: i still struggle with the described methods to post images here in this great forum.

see my test:

see https://i.imgur.com/zFy33fs.jpg

note: should i do a quote to get the photo that is hosted on imgur visible!? love to hear form you

regards

ps – keep up the great forum here – it is one of the best places on the whole net!

[pingram]

Hello @say_hello, I think your image url was missing something, maybe the leading protocol (https://) because if I inspect it in the browser it resolves to a WordPress 404 vs Imgur.

Giving it another shot, fingers crossed…

see https://i.imgur.com/zFy33fs.jpeg

see <a href="https://i.imgur.com/zFy33fs.jpeg" target="_blank">https://i.imgur.com/zFy33fs.jpeg</a>

<a href="https://i.imgur.com/zFy33fs.jpeg"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/zFy33fs.jpeg" target="_blank"></a>