Embedding images from Flickr

[AlanC]

What's changed?

When I try to embed an image I just get a link to an attachment. The topic on how to embed images now says use a size of 1600 pixels rather than the original (as was specified before) but doing so still just gets me a link to an attachment rather than the image when I preview the post.

 

[Pete_W]

This happens to me sometimes too. I am uncertain as to why. The past week I have been linking to 'Original Size' in Flickr and it's been working. Very confusing.

 

[dirk]

We did not change anything, but Flikr changes often something. I guess they do not like the embedding feature, but they can not disable it completely, because many use this feature and would leave without it.

 

[AlanC]

When I did as Pete suggested and embedded the original, full size image then it worked (see the April 2025 photo thread). But if I try to embed the 1600 pixel version I just get a link. But last time I tried I couldn't embed the full size image (the Photo Association Game thread) and ended up with a low resolution copy uploaded from the Flickr link.

The requirement for a 1600 pixel image is a change that happened at some point. It always used to be the full size image, and the instructions now say:

1. Choose via dropdown menu as size "original" (at the bottom) 1600 pixel.

So I'm not sure what's going on since I've never been able to get 1600 pixel images to embed and original images don't always work.

 

[dirk]

If I have time, I will look into this again. But not very soon. I am tired of Flikr changing again and again the procedure.