fb2ts

I suspected as much.

So unMacLike though, isn’t it? Not to mention so unWindowsLike. Seems like the reverse ought to be true.

Plus, displaying an image using a URL is so simple in html. And this is something that WP does automagically for single images – just with cutting and pasting. No Insert Media necessary.

Why would it be so impossible to do it with a gallery?

Is WP making a copy of the image pasted singly, on i2wp.com? Or just keeping a record of the URL and masking it? What’s the logic behind that? Is it a speed and reliability issue? Or a big data doodad?

Why does the gallery have to make a copy of images in the content/uploads folder? If it’s grabbing the image from i2wp.com anyway, for the single image, why can’t it grab it that way for the gallery?

Perhaps the answer is: easier said than done. But. I’d like to understand it better, if it’s a matter of a short phrase or two.

Either way, thank you everyone for fielding my questions so promptly and efficiently.

Thank you also for the wicked awesomeness that is WP.

The link to the post with the problem is

https://claudiamcdonough.com/testing-image-journal/

The steps that work from my PC are

1. Click Add Media
2. Create Gallery
3. Upload Files
4. Select Files
5. Open second window/tab.
6. From Image Location: Open Image and Right Click on it.
7. Select Copy Image Location
8. Return to WP tab and Paste URL into address box and Click Open
9. Keep Inserting from URL or select from Media Library
10. Click Create New Gallery
11. Add to Gallery or Insert Gallery
12. Update blog (find button on your right)
13. View post (top left)

Uh-oh. 13 steps! Maybe that’s the problem.
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Are you by any chance also a Chrome user?

Hotdog!

The image is from :

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/87/82/8f/87828ffe497fe4c8c0b907c2b67e4d04.jpg

When I right click on the first image my client inserted from their Mac with a url, to copy its location, I get

https://i2.wp.com/i.pinimg.com/564x/87/82/8f/87828ffe497fe4c8c0b907c2b67e4d04.jpg?resize=564%2C752&ssl=1

When I grab the same image url from where I inserted it into a gallery (from my PC), I get

https://i2.wp.com/claudiamcdonough.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/87828ffe497fe4c8c0b907c2b67e4d041.jpg?fit=564%2C752

My client is an artist, not a web developer – so there is a chance it’s a user error. But it would be great for their productivity, I think, if we could get this to work.

https://claudiamcdonough.com/testing-image-journal/

Are you on a Mac?

The first three images have been inserted from a URL. By a Mac user.

The image URLs are copied from Pinterest.

The second set of images are in a carousel and have been added by a PC user (myself). They also appear in the Media Library.

No attempt has been made to user the Block Editor – apart from the initial experience when it was installed automatically.

If it’s between not using paste from URL to a gallery with the Classic Editor and using the Block Editor, I’m afraid we are inclined to not paste from URL.

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Thank you!

That sounds like a good guess.

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When you create a new post now, is the time correct?

Your WP install is in a different timezone.

QUICKFIX: From your dashboard select All Posts, Quick Edit (of your Scheduled post) and check the time – there’s a very good chance that time (probably not the day) is set to some time that hasn’t happened yet.

By the time you read this, your post will probably have passed its scheduled time.

BIGFIX: To fix that, going forward, go to Settings, General and edit your Timezone so that it matches yours.

I just filed a bug report. For the record, they’ll want to be sure, please confirm the version of WordPress you are using.

Here’s the ticket. It seems like you can probably add yourself to its watchlist and maybe also add a comment.

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I just ran a test with Akismet disabled and it didn’t make a difference.

It’s only some of your users experiencing this problem, correct? Not all of them?

The only plugin we have in common is Akismet. That and the No Jetpack lead is excellent information – I’ll take it to the other forum and see what we get.

What the paucity of complaints seems to suggest is that relatively few people are getting repeat commenters. That is, of course, a whole different kettle of fish – but an interesting one, for sure.

According to Built With, as of the week beginning August 7th, 2017, there are 18,744,034 active wordpress installs.

The dot com complaint got Staff on board, and they said they would file a bug report, but haven’t said that they did post one. I just specifically asked for confirmation that a bug report has been filed.

[drumroll]

Here’s the verbatim as of July 7th – just about a month ago.

WordPress.com Staff: Okay. Well, we’ve duplicated the issue now so that’s a great start. I need to do some testing to see if this happens on a WordPress.org installation without Jetpack. If it does I’ll file a bug report there. If it only happens on WordPress.com / Jetpack sites, I’ll file a report accordingly.

Do you have Jetpack installed?

FYI, I am having the same problem and I have found this same complaint outstanding also on the wordpress.com forum – from a dot com user.

I am, like you, experiencing this problem on a dot org install with previously approved users having the comments held for moderation.

That makes at least 3 of us. But it seems worthwhile to know that it has been reported going back to March 2017 (at least on the dot com wp). I didn’t start getting Please Moderate emails until April 2017. That’s how long it took me to bump this up on my to do list!