hi uvavu,
welcome to the wordpress support forums. Are you using a certain flickr plugin to create those image-elements? If yes, it might not be compatbile with your wordpress version. Please check the version of the plugin and the version of you wordpress installation and take a look in the compability notes in the plugins documentation if they work together.
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uvavu
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No, I’m just using the raw HTML generated on flickr for adding images into your posts, like I said in my OP.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/poolski/2390386472/" title="Headless Horseman by poolski, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2249/2390386472_38b6489383_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Headless Horseman" /></a>
That is an example of the code that I insert into my HTML to add the image. It doens’t save the post or publish it. It simply times out.
I’ve tried to use flickr plugins to insert the images but they don’t work either.
Are you using the visual editor or are you using the code view?
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uvavu
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HTML (code view) to insert the image, hence the HTML code 🙂
well it should do the job! that is really misterous. Maybe a plugin is interfering with the editor? have you tried just posting the image, not the link?
<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2249/2390386472_38b6489383_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Headless Horseman" />
and additionally posting the link only without the image?:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/poolski/2390386472/" title="Headless Horseman by poolski, on Flickr">Link to larger Image on Flickr</a>
Maybe that test will reveal some more info.
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uvavu
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The link works fine, but if I try to post the image, the process grinds to a halt.
The save times out and that’s it!
WordPress will try to send a pingback to every link it finds in a post… please confirm that you’ve actually tired doing this WITHOUT a hyperlink at all.
I understand the hyperlink works, but it’s also telling wordpress to try sending a pingback to flickr’s server — something that you can’t see just by viewing your post.
You’ve used ambiguous language, claiming that everything is extemely simple and therefore should be ignored… I just need you to state that you’ve tried hotlinking an image without any hyperlinks in that post *explicitly*, so we can move on from pingbacks being a possible cause.
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uvavu
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Ivovic, thanks for the reply.
I have tried to do as hakre suggests – post both a text hyperlink
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/poolski/2390386472/" title="Headless Horseman by poolski, on Flickr">Link to larger Image on Flickr</a>
and an image without a hyperlink
<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2249/2390386472_38b6489383_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Headless Horseman" />
The text link worked fine and the post saved.
When I inserted the image, WP would not save the post.
Also, the image was visible in the WYSIWYG editor and I can confirm it exists on flickr, so it is not a case of a malformed URL.
I hope this helps!
I just hit the link myself — it definitely returns an image.
Unless you have a plugin which is hijacking hotlinked images, I can’t explain it.
I’m left with an increased understanding of the first line you posted in this thread.
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uvavu
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Right, time to go and indiscriminately strip out all but the most essential plugins and see what happens…
If anyone has any other ideas, please please let me know because being a photographer and my blog being largely ABOUT my photography, it’d be nice to have my flickr images work 🙂
I don’t usually like going too far off topic, but I’m going to ask you to consider using a photoblogging plugin like YAPB instead of signing away the rights to all your images on flickr.
I tried deleting my flickr account a couple of weeks ago – went through the notices that my images were going to be lost forever… only to find my account alive and reactivated a couple of days later.
If you can’t delete them when you want, then you can’t really trust that they’re respecting your copyright wishes either.
Just tested the pasting in my 2.6 Bleeding version and everything works as intended. I even blocked internet access in another time to check if wordpress is timing out somewhere – but all went ok.
So would go for the plugin-testing and if you upgraded I would double check the wp-admin / wp-includes directories be deleting them both and re-uploading everything as well as disabling and clearing the browsers cache for some time.
