nickaster
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Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Default Problem with Image LinkingYeah, but it’s a pretty valid complaint. Most people are not photo bloggers.
I actually added this to functions.php some time ago, and as you suggest, the problem is that once people accidentally select a link – and trust me, they’ll do it – then it gets “stuck” in that position. There is no way to fix it, unless I manually log in with their login credentials from time to time and re-upload a fake photo to a fake post to correct the situation. That’s totally impractical, plus they always screw it up again soon thereafter.
It is a SERIOUS time waster to have to deal with this and it makes no sense to me that WP can’t set NO LINK as the always-return default. I call this a bug and I suspect I’m not the only person who has a multi-author blog and has to waste a lot of time dealing with this…. no?
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Default Problem with Image LinkingSeriously, why would ANYONE actually want their images to be links?
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Default Problem with Image LinkingYeah – but that won’t be for all authors will it? I never have the problem when I author something. But when the other (there are dozens) of authors of my site upload images they don’t understand/notice that they are turning it into a hyper link. No matter how many times I try to explain it, it does no good.
The only real solution is to eliminate the option, or at least make it more difficult to trigger.
Why would would anyone want their images to be links to themselves?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Stripping Youtube CodeInteresting… that helps, thanks!
Still, the problem with all this is that inexperienced authors are NEVER going to understand it and it leaves me, the editor, having to constantly fix people’s code. It’s hard enough getting people to understand just pasting whatever youtube spits out…. sigh
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Facebook Grabs Strange ImageSecondary question. It seems that if things like quotes or appostrophes are in the title, facebook screws them up – adds some ascii code in there. Is there a cleaner way to display them?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Facebook Grabs Strange ImageCool! Out of curiosity, what’s the difference between that kind of coding and this, for example:
<link rel="image_src" href="http://www.triplepundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/3p.jpg" />ie, should I kill that and replace with what you suggested?
Also, do you know the PHP I should put in there that says basically “only show this stuff if this is a blog entry as opposed to a tag page, or something like that?”
Thanks!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Facebook Grabs Strange Imageand yes – other services (reddit, linked in) seem to be using the same method.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Facebook Grabs Strange ImageINterestingly – now it seems to be stable. I think that there might be some kind of cache in FB that remembers the bad images. When I went way back in time and “liked” some of my old posts. They all pull the correct image now.
The new challenge is to figure out how to make that image different for every post.
I think I know how to do it. I have a custom field called “featured image”. With a little hack coding I think I can tell the meta field to throw that image in the meta tag. If there’s nothing featured, it could grab a default.
I’ll try and figure out how to code it tomorrow. Biggest pain in the ass is that with a shared header across the site I have to make it smart enough to only put the featured in if it’s a blog post, and not a page or something!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Stripping Youtube CodeDare I ask …. does anyone know how to size the video if I wanted to? Just slapping in the URL seem to automatically will the whole post width. What if I wanted it smaller?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Facebook Grabs Strange ImageOkay … so I did some research and found someone says you can force the FB image with code in the meta tags like this:
<link rel="image_src" href="http://www.triplepundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/3p.jpg" />What’s totally blowing my mind now is that it seems to work SOME of the time, but not all. About half the time, FB takes this little *#()& image from down on my sidebar. Totally blowing my mind!!!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Facebook Grabs Strange ImageWell, I tested a bunch of yours and they seem to be working pretty well. Still digging on mine…
ha! I found a hack solution. If I just at
on its own line, then things work. Still kinda drives me nuts, but at least the problem is sorta solved.It’s totally nuts. Even if I place a whole giant DIV around it all, which doesn’t get stripped, it seems to have no effect!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Facebook Grabs Strange ImageHagop – what’s your URL? we could at least look at eachother’s code and see what’s consistent. I’ve been testing this on other sites and they seem to work all the time.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Facebook Grabs Strange ImageYeah – seems like linked-in uses a similar technique and the images it chooses are often really random. There’s got to be a smarter way of saying “pick me”! in the post body some place…