Replacement for Photobucket?

[RichardS]

Can someone please explain in simple terms how to post a link from Dropbox so that it automatically shows the image in the post and not the link.

In very very simple terms please

Upload your photo to Dropbox then open the photo on the Dropbox website in your browser. Click on Share then Copy Link. The link is now copied into your local PC/tablet clipboard so you can paste it into your YBW post. However, you need to make a couple of small edits first ...... type

after the link with no spaces. Then change the bit that says dl=0 to raw=1.

Now when you add your post the photo will show.

You can also do the same thing by right-clicking on the photo in your Dropbox local client if you are using the local client.

Richard

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Upload your photo to Dropbox then open the photo on the Dropbox website in your browser. Click on Share then Copy Link. The link is now copied into your local PC/tablet clipboard so you can paste it into your YBW post. However, you need to make a couple of small edits first ...... type

after the link with no spaces. Then change the bit that says dl=0 to raw=1.

Now when you add your post the photo will show.

You can also do the same thing by right-clicking on the photo in your Dropbox local client if you are using the local client.

Richard

Thanks Richard but this link does not seem to do it any ideas, you have no idea how much of a faff it is to have to switch between English and French keyboard to get the correct parenthesis

[/IMG]https://www.dropbox.com/s/eu79qyhr9vwvunw/58%20-%20Mizzen%20Head.jpg?raw=1[/IMG]

 

[johnalison]

Thanks Richard but this link does not seem to do it any ideas, you have no idea how much of a faff it is to have to switch between English and French keyboard to get the correct parenthesis

[/IMG]https://www.dropbox.com/s/eu79qyhr9vwvunw/58%20-%20Mizzen%20Head.jpg?raw=1[/IMG]

How about this:

I changed the IMGs to lower case.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

How about this:

I changed the IMGs to lower case.

Many thanks:encouragement:

 

[johnalison]

I would like to point out that the pretty picture was petehb's.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

I would like to point out that the pretty picture was petehb's.

I would like to point out that my joy was quickly turned into despondency when I tried to post:

[/img]https://www.dropbox.com/s/eu79qyhr9vwvunw/58%20-%20Mizzen%20Head.jpg?raw=1[/img]

It does not work for me

 

[RichardS]

Thanks Richard but this link does not seem to do it any ideas, you have no idea how much of a faff it is to have to switch between English and French keyboard to get the correct parenthesis

[/IMG]https://www.dropbox.com/s/eu79qyhr9vwvunw/58%20-%20Mizzen%20Head.jpg?raw=1[/IMG]

[/img]https://www.dropbox.com/s/eu79qyhr9vwvunw/58%20-%20Mizzen%20Head.jpg?raw=1[/img]

It's not the lower case that's important .... it's removing the slash from the first brackets.

[IMG]https://www.dropbox.com/s/eu79qyhr9vwvunw/58%20-%20Mizzen%20Head.jpg?raw=1

Richard

 

[johnalison]

[/img]https://www.dropbox.com/s/eu79qyhr9vwvunw/58%20-%20Mizzen%20Head.jpg?raw=1[/img]

It's not the lower case that's important .... it's removing the slash from the first brackets.



Richard[/QUOTE]
Ah. I did that as a matter of course. Ignorance is bliss.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Ah. I did that as a matter of course. Ignorance is bliss.

Sometimes but only sometimes, in this case it wasn't.

 

[johnalison]

Sometimes but only sometimes, in this case it wasn't.

On the contrary; I'm feeling very blissful, basking in the satisfaction of passing on my hignorance.