Image handling test…

Posted byAndrew DresselPosted inUncategorized

As you may know, I use WordPress to format these posts and email them to you. Also, WordPress only provides 3gb of image storage, which I quickly burned through, so I have been hosting the images on Flickr and embedding them in my posts. This works mostly fine.

The problem is that some of you have told me that the aspect ratio of the images is off in the posts you receive by email. Since that didn’t happen for everyone, I assumed the issue was with how your particular email client handled embedded images from WordPress, and that there was nothing I could do about it.

Well, I recently learned that there might actually be something I can do on my end to help your email client render the images properly. So, this is a test. I have inserted the same image twice via two different methods, and I have done this for an image in portrait orientation and one in landscape. That makes four images altogether.

If you have been seeing incorrectly rendered images on your end, please let me know if either method improves things for you.

Here’s a white-whiskered puffbird embedded with WordPress’s “Flickr embed” block.

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Here’s the same white-whiskered puffbird embedded via WordPress’s “custom HTML” block.

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Here’s a least grebe embedded with WordPress’s “Flickr embed” block.

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Here’s the same least grebe embedded via WordPress’s “custom HTML” block.

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If this helps, great and sorry it took me so long to sort out. If not, it didn’t hurt too much to try, and maybe it will provide a clue to a solution that does work.

Published by Andrew Dressel

Theoretical and Applied Bicycle Mechanic, and now, apparently, Amateur Naturalist. In any case, my day job is researching bicycles at UWM.

12 thoughts on “Image handling test…”

  1. The second images all look best on my phone. Usually I have to look at them on my laptop if I want to see them accurately. Thanks for making this fix!

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  2. Custom HTML looks better but the first picture only shows up as a link.

    Welcome back. Your trip and pictures have been amazing.

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  4. I believe it may be the case that in today’s SOLIEP, it is the first time the wonderful sentence:

    “Here’s a white-whiskered puffbird embedded with WordPress’s “Flickr embed” block.”

    has appeared anywhere at anytime in the history of the universe.

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  5. Hi,

    The first of each pair of photos (in both portrait and horizontal formats) is distorted (laterally compressed) when displayed on my iPhone screen.

    If I click on the typically distorted image that displays in your posts, though, it takes me to Flicker, where the UNdistorted image appears in a series of other images you have posted.

    Thanks for your efforts and for your amazing photography!

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  6. Hey Andy, On my laptop all of the images look great but on my phone the “Flckrembed” images are distorted and elongated but when I click on the link on my Safari browser all of the images are beautiful – just as you intended!

    Therefore I mostly use my laptop to read your blog.

    Thank you for all you do, Gary

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  7. Not only do the images embedded via the WordPress custom HTML block have the correct aspect ratio, they’re also much sharper!

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  8. Welcome home, Andy and Custom HTML works for me. Thank you for figuring this out and now I will stop looking for elongated species in the field. Kathy K🦫

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  11. Hi Andrew-

    I’m not sure any of my comments will be helpful but, If you’re looking for feedback, all 4 images are clear on my screen; however, the HTML embedded version is a bit larger and sharper. I usually do not have any problem viewing your images although 2 or 3 recent e-mails contained only links, no images.

    Thank you for your terrific Signs of Life e-mail stream – I always look forward to them! I hope to eventually be able to join your Monday hikes as well.

    Best-
    Diane

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  12. The top photo is quite elongated on my iPhone.

    “Here’s a white-whiskered puffbird embedded with WordPress’s “Flickr embed” block.”

    Thanks for doing this. I look forward to it every day. Tess

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