Hello @reble,

There are a couple of things that I would like to say you.

I checked your site and you're currently running a version released more than 2 years ago, so it's highly recommended to upgrade to a more recent version. Upgrading your site is a pretty straightforward process that is detailed in the manual and there are huge benefits.

One of those benefits is the green plus sign (inline positioned images) that you're not able to find in your site as shown in this page: http://b2evolution.net/man/adding-photos-or-images. The thing is that that page (as the most of the manual pages), is referred to a more recent version of b2evolution and some features might not be in your current installation.

This leads me to another comment. With your current version, a little of HTML knowledge and a couple of tricks, you may be able to show the image exactly as you want. However, b2evolution is designed to optimize the images management, but they need to be added to the posts using the methods described in the manual page linked above. For example, if you upgrade to 5.1, you will be able to use inline images combined with the .floatright, and make the post looks almost like this one https://www.dropbox.com/s/c4i2ukhmq5epw2r/original%20post.jpg does.

Regards!

I can't upgrade the version I am using. I don't own the server computer system. A friend that owns an alarm company owns the equipment. I am surprised that he is running outdated software. How do I get around the limitations of the old software? He showed me once how to do it. But he is very busy right now. He is working with 2 techs short. He had to fire them. They screwed an alarm system and the hole thing had to be replaced. I get the web page and blog free. The server computer sit in a corner of the main computer room for his company. Is there a users guide available for the older version?

Steve

@mgsolipa wrote earlier:

Hello @reble,

There are a couple of things that I would like to say you.

I checked your site and you're currently running a version released more than 2 years ago, so it's highly recommended to upgrade to a more recent version. Upgrading your site is a pretty straightforward process that is detailed in the manual and there are huge benefits.

One of those benefits is the green plus sign (inline positioned images) that you're not able to find in your site as shown in this page: http://b2evolution.net/man/adding-photos-or-images. The thing is that that page (as the most of the manual pages), is referred to a more recent version of b2evolution and some features might not be in your current installation.

This leads me to another comment. With your current version, a little of HTML knowledge and a couple of tricks, you may be able to show the image exactly as you want. However, b2evolution is designed to optimize the images management, but they need to be added to the posts using the methods described in the manual page linked above. For example, if you upgrade to 5.1, you will be able to use inline images combined with the .floatright, and make the post looks almost like this one https://www.dropbox.com/s/c4i2ukhmq5epw2r/original%20post.jpg does.

Regards!

@reble,

Sadly, there is only one version of the user manual because we are just in a constant process of update including new features. It is done this way due to additions are not supposed to affect older versions, so the difference is basically that you will miss some features according the version you're currently running.

Regarding the images that you need to include to get a text like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/c4i2ukhmq5epw2r/original%20post.jpg, if you have no access to update the software, then there is not too much to do about it. I guess that the only way is how I mentioned in my previous comment, with some of basic html and nothing more. Here is an example: http://jsfiddle.net/C8ZWh/

Please consider that you will need to host the images in a different server (I assume you don't have FTP access to the server either), and also be careful about the size of the images, because the b2evolution's optimization engine won't work.

Regards!

I do have full FTP access to the server. After looking at the layout some more I see there is my blog, Camoni's blog, mine and Camoni's web pages and a few other web pages. I probably can upgrade b2evolution but I don't have TB's ok to do it and I don't want to screw things up.

@mgsolipa wrote earlier:

@reble,

Sadly, there is only one version of the user manual because we are just in a constant process of update including new features. It is done this way due to additions are not supposed to affect older versions, so the difference is basically that you will miss some features according the version you're currently running.

Regarding the images that you need to include to get a text like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/c4i2ukhmq5epw2r/original%20post.jpg, if you have no access to update the software, then there is not too much to do about it. I guess that the only way is how I mentioned in my previous comment, with some of basic html and nothing more. Here is an example: http://jsfiddle.net/C8ZWh/

Please consider that you will need to host the images in a different server (I assume you don't have FTP access to the server either), and also be careful about the size of the images, because the b2evolution's optimization engine won't work.

Regards!

I stuck the following html line below into the text and hit save.

<h2>Align Right</h2>
<img src="http://mama1010.servequake.com/blog/blogs/htsrv/viewfile.php?root=collection_6&path=testla%20coil.jpg&viewtype=image" align="right">

And I end up with the following error message "Tag <h2> is not allowed within tag <span>". I remove the "<h2>Align Right</h2>" line and the update goes through. But no picture on the finished post.

@mgsolipa wrote earlier:

@reble,
Regarding the images that you need to include to get a text like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/c4i2ukhmq5epw2r/original%20post.jpg, if you have no access to update the software, then there is not too much to do about it. I guess that the only way is how I mentioned in my previous comment, with some of basic html and nothing more. Here is an example: http://jsfiddle.net/C8ZWh/
Regards!

Just wanted to thank you for your tips. I had the same problem as OP but one upgrade solved everything. :D

@mgsolipa wrote earlier:

Hello @reble,

There are a couple of things that I would like to say you.

I checked your site and you're currently running a version released more than 2 years ago, so it's highly recommended to upgrade to a more recent version. Upgrading your site is a pretty straightforward process that is detailed in the manual and there are huge benefits.

One of those benefits is the green plus sign (inline positioned images) that you're not able to find in your site as shown in this page: http://b2evolution.net/man/adding-photos-or-images. The thing is that that page (as the most of the manual pages), is referred to a more recent version of b2evolution and some features might not be in your current installation.

This leads me to another comment. With your current version, a little of HTML knowledge and a couple of tricks, you may be able to show the image exactly as you want. However, b2evolution is designed to optimize the images management, but they need to be added to the posts using the methods described in the manual page linked above. For example, if you upgrade to 5.1, you will be able to use inline images combined with the .floatright, and make the post looks almost like this one https://www.dropbox.com/s/c4i2ukhmq5epw2r/original%20post.jpg does.

Regards!

@reble

Maybe you should check how is the XHTML Validation set for your current user group (http://b2evolution.net/man/blogging-permissions). However, I made tests using version 4 of b2evolution and exactly the same code that I shared at jsfiddle, it works as supposed.

Please, let us know how is everything going.

Regards!

Hi ~
I am having many problems uploading my images into my B2 blog via a URL address (my own website).
Can anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong so I can fix it?

I have upgraded to the latest version via my hosting site and there were no problems, except for the images issue.

I WANT to upload from a URL and not the Add Link/Files option. I find that impossible to control or work with, sorry.

I have the image in my FTP folder and I follow the exact path to upload from the URL, but when the image is supposed to show inside the blog posting box, there is nothing except a little X'ed box. My images are 1600X1200 but I usually am able to shrink them via the Insert/Edit Image dialogue box. Now, no matter what I do, the image will simply not load.

Thank you for your help - anything useful will be appreciated.
RS

Hi @raymondesavoie,

In order to insert images in the way that you want to do it, they must be directly accesible through their URL. So, before to insert any of those URLs in your post, test them directly in the browser. If you still can't see the image, then the problem is with the URL itself.

Please check this video that shows the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Rc4BjjESA

Tip: Upload large images and then "resize" them in the text editor is not a good practice, especially if you insert several of them in your posts. They are not really resized, they are just shown in a different size, but the images downloaded to your visitors browser remain being as large as you originally uploaded them.

Thank you so much! I will try that and report on my progress or, hopefully, my success.

And thanks also for the info about resizing in the text editor. I wasn't aware that my images remained their original size. I will resize them beforehand to make sure this doesn't happen, as in 'save for web.'