I have another technical problem to work through. I’ve called in the happy folks at WordPress to get relief from a problem uploading photos from my computer to this site.
Since everyone expects kitty photos with the text, I feel, well, stripped without new photos that upload. With apologies, then, I post these photos from my media file to plug the time till – soon, I hope – photos can be uploaded to my WordPress media file again:
Andy the kitten was so ugly he was cute!
Dougy adores me, though this look is one of anticipation as he demands those fingers on the right scritch him!
“You got it right, human!” Andy flips the bird at me! (I think…..)
Dougy finally gets to enjoy a little peace and quiet!
The “Business Plan” upgrade at wordpress.com has UNLIMITED STORAGE space.
https://wordpress.com/pricing/
Here is some information about editing. You should pay attention to the section on “Resizing” in order to get more bang for your buck in your media files:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/images/image-editing/
I’me going to try that, John. It’s about the last thing left to do for new uploads anyway. Thanks for the link and suggestion! I hope it does the trick.
Let me know so if I think of something else I can pass it along.
I’m taking a little time off from the computer to fix some egg salad for an egg salad sandwich for a light supper, but I will do just that if I can think of anything else. Thanks, John! I appreciate the support!
I try to help wherever I can. 🙂
We all seem to run into issues here from time to time! Again, thanks for your suggestions. Even if they haven’t helped, there is bound to be one sometime that works. I will appreciate that one workable suggestion no matter how it comes to me!
Is there a possibility that you need to buy more storage space on your wordpress upgrade?
https://en.support.wordpress.com/space-upgrade/
Do you take your photos from your computer photo program such as “windows photo gallery” or “Google Photo Gallery?” If you do use either of these to transfer pictures to your wordpress.com media file, do you edit them down to something like 350 px before storing them. If you reduce the size of your pictures you can get a lot more of them into your file and they will load to your blog a lot faster too.
I have the Premium upgrade and have used 73% of the available space.
The Business Plan upgrade has unlimited storage space —
https://wordpress.com/pricing/
I may have to go that route, John. I don’t recall what the price way (a lot!), but I know I can generally come up with the price for things I like and want.
I think it’s $24.95 per month billed yearly — about $300 per year if memory serves me.
That sounds pretty close, if not exactly that. I was thinking that was the cost at any rate or something close. That isn’t too bad for someone like us, with our heavy use of the site.
Editing photos in “My Media”
1. Go to “My Site” and click on “WP Admin.”
2. Click on “Media”
3. Click on “Library”
4. Your images should appear.
5. Pick an image and hover over it with mouse.
6. The word “Edit” will appear beneath your chosen image.
7. Click on “Edit” beneath your chosen image.
8. When the editable image appears you will see “Edit Image” underneath it.
9. Click on “Edit Image.”
10. Look to the right of your screen and see “Scale Image.”
11. In the “Scale Image” box you will find the words, “New Dimensions.”
12. Delete whatever dimensions appear in the two boxes and add news ones.
13. I use 300 x 300 for most of my pictures but I have gone down to 75 x 75 on some.
14. If you ever want to restore your image to the original size there is a thing there to click on for that too.
15. Be careful though because sometimes I have found that when I have reduced the size of a picture and then try to make it bigger, the bigger version is sometimes grainy and blurry.
I usually process photos through Photoshop. When saving them, I have the option of saving them in high definition down to something that works but is much less defined. I resaved several photos I prepared for a post on my dialysis unit and what I’ve been going through to get to the stage of having the port removed and the dialysis fistula put in service. Though they were much smaller files, they still wouldn’t upload. I’ve e-mailed the IT guy who contacted me from WP and told him all the things I tried that didn’t work. He said yesterday that there are other things he can suggest if those he mentioned yesterday didn’t work. I’ve edited things a few times on WP, though my problem is getting the files into the media library in the first place.
Pictures enter the media library through your post editor where it says “Add Media.”
I know. That’s how I entered scores and hundreds of photos up till 8-13. The WordPress help guy said he was able to upload into my media files on his end, and suggested i try using a different browser to access the blog. I use Google Chrome, but tried Microsoft Edge: same result. I attached a photo that did upload the day before this problem started and one that I tried to upload on and after the 13th. I can’t see any difference in the two, other than the one that uploaded is nearly four times as big. Both were taken on the same smart phone, a day apart. Anyway, I’ll see what he has to report back to me on that today, I hope.
Have you tried “Opera” browser?
http://www.opera.com/
If the last suggestion from WordPress doesn’t work, I’ll try it. I prefer Google Chrome over any other browsers I’ve tried, but…! Thanks again, John. I appreciate your efforts to help.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2488238,00.asp
Editing isn’t the problem. I can download from my camera and smart phone, and my computer is set up to call them up in Photoshop. From there to WordPress is still an issue as of 8-13.
Thank you for the reruns.
Unfortunately, there will have to be more of them until I can upload new material. I am sick of the problem!
Reruns are always welcome, Doug. The boys are never tiring to look at!
I occasionally have problems as well with uploads or other features, including the email notification for new posts. Or, sometimes I get an email, but that blogger’s post does not show up in the reader.
I’m about to bail out of the blogosphere! There is no point to this blog without photos.
Being that you said Andy was ugly as a kitten, I can see why he flips you the bird 🙂
LOL! Yeah! But he was….!
Andy the kitten is lovely!
He quickly became beautiful.
Doug I periodically have issues with photo upload too. As someone who’s come to your blog later than many I don’t mind the reruns at all. I’m still catching up.
There’s been a huge increase in my follows since the start of the year, so I hope that most of the people viewing the reruns are new to the post or enjoyed the originals when they were posted several months (or years!) ago. Anyway, i appreciate your comment, Angela. Incidentally, I’m new to your blog as well, and I enjoy your thoughtful essays on life. They are a nice change from my usual blog reads, most enjoyable! I recommend anyone reading this comment take a look at your blog!
You are so kind. I’m glad you are enjoying my blog because I certainly get a lot of pleasure from yours.
Thank you, Angela. I’m having problems with the site just now, and am not very happy about problems I’m having with WordPress just now.
Sorry to hear yu’re having trouble
Thanks! It’s been one thing after another since April. I’m sick of it.