[kaya56]

Hi,

I am trying to embed .Gifs into my Read WP theme. It works in a sidebar widget, but when I try to embed it into a normal post, it doesn’t work.

Here’s a link:

http://www.theclockend.com/match-analysis/fa-cup-final-arsenal-3-2-hull-city-report-player-ratings

As you can see, the sidebar has a Gif banner. But above the “Extra Time” heading, there SHOULD be another smaller gif banner. But it won’t show.

I have tried the exact same code snippet (below) on another WP website with a diffeent theme, and it worked fine.

Any help appreciated. Thanks.

[ahmetsali]

Hi, there is no restriction for gif usage. Please check your gif image’s url, it looks broken.

[kaya56]

Hi,

It doesn’t look broken to me:

http://www.theclockend.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/WCB2-234×60.gif

Here is the code snippet I’m using:

<a href=”http://www.camporetro.com”&gt; <img src=”http://www.theclockend.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/WCB2-234×60.gif&#8221; alt=”some_text”></a>

(please ignore “&gt” and “;” in above snippet, needed to add it to stop code dissappearing)

As I said, I copy/pasted the same snippet into another blog, and it worked.

[ahmetsali]

i get 404 error when i want to open this in the browser;

http://www.theclockend.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/WCB2-234%C3%9760.gif

[kaya56]

So do I, but that’s not the link im using in my code.

This is the link being used:

http://www.theclockend.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/WCB2-234×60.gif

Where did you get that link from? I can’t find it.

[ahmetsali]

i got it from your previous post, also when i check the url in your last post, i still get 404 error.

I just tested uploading a gif and insert into post on our demo site. It works fine.

– try uploading the image again and insert into post again. It should work.
– make sure your image url doesn’t contain any special characters.

[kaya56]

This is weird because the URL I use in the code is correct, and doesnt have 404 error. But it seems when I publish it, it changes the link?

[ahmetsali]

yes it is weird, i have no idea why it is happening, did you repeat the steps in my last post?

[kaya56]

okay I have no idea what caused that to happen, but I found a way around it.

Instead of uploading the gif to WordPress, I uploaded it to Photobucket. I simply used the HTML link from there to embed it, and it works.

Thanks for your help anyway :)