I think Activating Gutenburg caused Flickr linked images to break?
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Yesterday I did an experimental test activation of Gutenburg.
My blog posts include images hosted at Flickr.
Adding links in this form, for example
successfully make the images appear in the post when published.After activating Gutenburg all past posts (over 800 of them!) did not render the images but just showed the code, as in the above example, instead.
I have deactivated Gutenburg and posts are now back to showing images as before.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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OK – four days have passed and no one from WordPress or anywhere else has said anything….
But: the mystery deepens.
Nothing to do with Gutenburg?
Suddenly, for no reason I can fathom, all the posts in my blog which have linked Flickr images are suddenly just showing the link code and not the image itself.
Does anyone know the reason for this?
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Hi there,
I’m not sure this is Gutenberg-related – I embedded one of your Flickr images on my test site using both the full and shortlinks, then activated the block editor, updated the post in the block editor, and even converted the classic block with the image embedded into an embed block, and the image remained visible throughout.
And it’s your own image that works fine for me, so I’m not sure why it stopped working on your site.
You say this has happened on all your posts? And without you editing the posts directly?
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Thanks for your response Kokkieh
I will try to summarize the issue:
I have been maintaining a small blog at gribinisaf.wordpress.com since January 2015.
After the first few posts I started storing pictures at Flickr and linking to them in the blog.
The code I used to do this evolved as I tried quicker and easier ways to inserting the pictures.
Most recently I have just right clicked on the image in my Flickr photostream, chosen “copy link address” and pasted into the HTML wordpress editor to get something like this:
When the post is published this has displayed the image fine.
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Now…
On November 2nd I did a post in the normal way but when previewed or published the images did not appear, Instead, the code was shown in the published post.
Looking back at past posts I could see the same was true – posts that had shown pictures fine now just showed the code. I had not edited these posts in any way.
When something like this happens I obviously think about what I might have changed. Before writing that post I had activated Gutenberg. The next day I deactivated Gutenberg and all pictures were again displayed fine. You can see why I jumped to a cause and effect here and hence the title of this help request.
All was fine for a couple of days and then yesterday the same thing happened: Linking code showing instead of pictures in a new post AND in all past posts back to a certain date. This time I had not made any changes to my workflow or settings.
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This morning I have discovered the following:
Code written like this in the WordPress HTML editor:
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6.6% of the way through November and it has not yet plunged into a dark dismal Nov experience. On the contrary, golden sun
has illuminated the last leaves
———————————————————–now displays code not pictures
But inserting blank lines (which should make no different in HTML?) like this:
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6.6% of the way through November and it has not yet plunged into a dark dismal Nov experience. On the contrary, golden sunhas illuminated the last leaves
———————————————————–Displays the pictures!
So……
If my analysis is correct:
Something has changed, either at WordPress or at Flickr
because
pictures that showed before do not show now – I have made no changes
I can rectify the problem by inserting blank lines as in the example above
But
that means going back and editing a lot of posts.
I would be very grateful to receive your thoughts on this.
Many thanks
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Thanks for that. I can replicate what you’re describing here.
This might have been a change to the Core WordPress software, as I see the same thing happening on a self-hosted site. It also appears we’ve had some other reports of existing embeds suddenly not working any more, so we’re looking into it, but I’m afraid I can’t promise any immediate fix.
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Thanks for that Kokkieh. It is always good to know that one’s problem is replicable and not a figment of imagination. Fortunately, as mentioned previously, I seem to have a work around – although going back to change all past posts is tedious.
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It looks like we already have a developer looking into this, so perhaps hold off on manually editing everything just yet. If this is a Core issue as I suspect it’s likely going to be affecting a very large number of sites, so I wouldn’t abandon all hope just yet :)
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Okay, our developers were able to fix the issue that caused this, so your existing embeds should all work again. If you see a post that’s still broken, please let me know the link to the affected post(s).
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Looks like the problem has occurred again – certainly is on my site http://www.apopfansdream.wordpress.com
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Well my issue is with YouTube links but the principle is the same. I presume just sit tight and wait – don’t fancy editing 400+ posts !
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Yes – think it is the same issue – to do with embedding pictures or videos. In both cases inserting a blank line before the link seems to avoid the problem but as you say do not want to edit 800 posts in my case. Hope WordPress people pick up the re-occurrence from this thread… Kokkieh – are you there!?
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ok – so this morning it looks as if things are ok. Certainly the page I cited above
is rendering correctly right now – and it wasn’t 12 hours ago.
Same is true of your page nigbbbbitgh
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It magically got better in (our) night.
Not at all: there were several problems with Googe services, such as Gmail, YouTube, etc. Even with the same Google. 😉
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