Additional way of inserting photos(updated with videos) By JR (Read 903 times)

[JR]

As all of you have learned the way to insert a photo/image on the new V5 layout is to click on the above image icon  in the menu navigation bar and a pop up window appears that allows you to insert your image link that begins with http:// and hit insert image and the photo appears right before you in the normal reply area and as a BBCode if you're using the Quick Reply area. Today I inserted a plugin that allows you to simply paste a image link in your reply and when you finish the post and hit the create thread in the normal reply or the post in the quick reply the photo will automatically appear, no code tags, no insert in the image drop down, just that simple.

Now photos come in a variety of formats and this will work in the four following formats:

jpg

png

gif

bmp

Any photo/image link that ends with one of these formats will work. Also the plugin has a sizing option and I have it set to 480px  by 360px so if you put a photo in as big as a barn it will downsize it to this size the same as the image resize code for all of the photos here now. Only thing is you will not be able to click on this and have it go back to the original size.

All photos put in that smaller than 480px  By  360px will stay the size they are and will not be changed.

Ok so you may ask what is a photo/image link that works and here is what one would look like:

httv://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/l553/dryshave/bike28jpg

Now I change the p in the http to a v so it would not come up as a photo when I hit create thread. This is a very large photo of a scooter project by one of our members here.

Now I'm going to put the link in correctly and when I hit create thread the image will show up resized from it's original 1024px to the settings I gave above.

JR

i1123.photobucket.com/albums/l553/dryshave/bike28.jpg

[JR]

I have just enabled the same function for videos and it's just as simple, copy and paste the link and hit your create post or post quick reply.

There is one exception and that's for photobucket videos but the exception is the same in the other way to post videos. The direct link for posting on a photobucket link code starts with the normal http:// but instead of ending in a way that will work on a PB forum with mp4 they end their links with html. The link will look like this:

video.mp4.html.

Simply remove the last four letters of html, copy and paste and it will appear. This is not a PB error but a error on their part.

JR

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