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.

 

[Travis Butler]

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:

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.

When you say 'embed', are you using 'Embed' or 'BBCode' as the sharing option?

'BBCode' is what I've been using, and as long as I keep it at or under 1600 pixels, it works fine on the posting; it doesn't always preview right, but it posts right.

 

[sergun80]

The problem is probably not with flickr, but with your account/settings. I have selectively looked at other people's links, and in most of them you can find a link.

It should be like this:

 

[AlanC]

I'm sorry about all this, Dirk, but I really haven't got a clue what's going on here since, as far as I'm aware, I'm not doing anything differently to how I've successfully posted images in the past.

I'm doing what the thread "How to upload images" says. On Flickr I click the "Share" icon for the photo, choose BBCode and an image size of Original or Large (1600 x 1600), copy the resulting code and paste that directly into the forum message textbox.


Although I do usually leave off the part of the code to generate the text links with the image name and attribution. I wouldn't have expected that to cause any problems, though, since the BBCode for the url and img tags for the photo are complete and properly terminated, plus Pete is seeing the same issue.

It may be as Travis has said, that it doesn't preview properly but will post OK. I do remember seeing this happen previously: I'd select preview but not always get the images. I'll give it a go next time I'm posting some photos and see what happens.

 

[dirk]

Do not worry. You can test it everywhwre in the forum and send me after the tests a link via PM and I delete them then. Just call the thread "test" and nobody will be bothered.