They do NOT show up if you paste them into your blog or use the URL feature of importing images into posts. It is extremely annoying.
Could you explain a little more on what you are doing/expecting when you say “paste them into your blog”, or importing from URL? Copy-paste doesn’t work with images because they need a defined web-accessible URL in order for them to display in a browser. That is why your “uploads” folder and media manager/uploader exist. The images must be placed inside of your web space to become viewable by the public, or you have to provide an absolute path to an image somewhere else on the web to make it viewable.
So we were just gonna suck it up and upload our pictures everytime even though we do not want to and it would be much better if we had other options
That’s the process, not the exception. Just like any other web based application or web site, you have to make the media content available by uploading it to your web space or another web accessible server. You can, however, link to your images directly if you happen to have a flicker, picasa, or some other image hosting account somewhere on the net.
What we are currently doing is saving an image we like to your computers… uploading the picture onto our server so its in the media library on WP. Then we are selecting the image and inserting it into our blogs. The main problem is if an Admin under our WP posts the blog the image shows up on our website. If a regular author posts the same blog and does it the exact same way the image does not show up. Could this be a permissions thing?
Could be. Or it might just be a simple procedural error. There might be something helpful here.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Author
That says one of the Authors roles is to upload files… wouldn’t that mean that their images should be showing up. They are allowed to upload it just never shows up in the main content section.
I figured it out… authors can now upload… however we can still only upload images ONE way. we can upload them from your computer and insert them in our posts. every time we try to use one from a URL it doesnt show up on the main content feature. any idea why one would work and the others don’t?
So basically you are having to upload your images via an FTP client to a folder in your theme directory each time as opposed to being able to upload them via the WP Media Library?
When you do try to upload via the media library then select ‘Add New’, then ‘Select Files’, then select file from folder on computer and upload? You then can copy the file URL and also optionally edit image dimensions etc?
Currently, when you successfully get an image to appear in the slider, what process do you use? Do you paste the URL somewhere directly in the post or you use ‘Add an Image feature from the editor?
