The entire format for placing photos has changed??

  • justjennifer · Member ·

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  • srhelvetica · Member ·

    @justjennifer:
    First of all, thank you for your time. I understand your arguments, but you’ll have to agree that ANY update WP consider can´t involve loosing part of the information bloggers have been working on. And this is happening now. Was it inevitable? I don´t think so, but can be wrong. In adition, it’s clear WP’s main objective is to get the maximum profit, as many business. The more users it has, the more money it earns. It’s not a charity org. It depends on its success with users.
    Anyway, I’m not going to repeat again the some points ’cause they’ve clearly exposed in my previous comments. I’m gonna try yo stay focused,as you said:
    -What were you trying to do? To keep writing tooltip titles readers could see by moving mouse over featured images, as i used to.
    -What did you click on or do last? I clicked over the “add an image” and realised the media upload system had changed. That happened in November, the 29th.
    -What happened / what did you see? I can’t see tooltip titles now. Kathryn has been very kind and patient with my questions about it, and explained me that changes have deleted this option for main pics (at top of the posts), and it seems WP isn´t gonna give the users the choice to mantain the old system if they prefer it. I dislike this. Very much.
    -What browser are you using? Mozilla Firefox 16.0.2

    Thanks again.

  • timethief · Member ·

    Mozilla Firefox 16.0.2 is an outdated browser version. You can upgrade here http://browsehappy.com

  • srhelvetica · Member ·

    Done!
    Dislike this media changes the same than before, but now my browser is updated…
    Thanks!

  • timethief · Member ·

    You’re welcome.

  • shoreacres · Member ·

    I add images to my blog from an outside URL. Suddenly, I no longer am able to place them properly within the text.

    Every image loads to the top of the page, no matter where I have placed my cursor. The only way to place them properly is to do a copy and paste and then delete the original.

    I am using updated Firefox with no add-ons. Yes, I have done the cache/cookie/restart business. This truly is a pain. At minimum, it ought to be possible to add images where I want them to be.

    Any advice? I saw others had the problem in the beginning of this thread, but I haven’t yet found either an answer or a suggestion of when the problem might be resolved.

  • timethief · Member ·

    @shoreacres
    There are others with the same issue waiting for Staff assistance in other threads.

  • davidderrick · Member ·

    Using current Chrome and current Camino, I could always size my photos to 360 across to get the best display ratio given the width of my blog’s column. Now the image gets cut off — until you click on it to expand the view. This is incredibly annoying. The scaling no longer works, in other words. What can I do?

    Thanks.

  • shoreacres · Member ·

    TT – thanks! I’ll go snoop around in other threads.

  • timethief · Member ·

    Hi shoreacres,
    Here are others with the same issue:
    https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/change-in-adding-media?replies=9#post-1086470
    https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/change-in-adding-media?replies=9#post-1086470

  • timethief · Member ·

    oops! I meant to post this https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adding-media-headache?replies=2#post-1086459

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