Why are my images not displaying? What is remote loading?
The most common reason for images not displaying properly, whether it be in journal entries or in styles or overrides, is due to remote loading issues.
Remote loading refers to images being referenced and displayed by other websites. Many popular free web space providers no longer allow remote loading, due to the bandwidth issues involved.
Normally, your Internet Service Provider (ISP) will offer you some free web space as a part of your monthly account. You should check with them and find out if they allow remote loading. If your ISP doesn't offer web space, or doesn't allow remote loading, you will need to search for other sites and review their policies to determine if they allow remote loading. In some cases, you may need to pay a small fee for the service.
InsaneJournal cannot suggest image hosting services, as their policies can change with little to no notice. However, InsaneJournal hopes to offer its own image hosting service within the next year.
Make sure that you either control the web space you are using, or have permission from the owner of the web space to use their images. Just because an image is on the Internet doesn't mean that it's available for use by anyone.
Once you have found an image host, see https://www.insanejournal.com/support/f
If your images are not displaying, but you know your webspace allows remote loading, you may also want to verify that you've typed the address of the image correctly, and have used the right filename.
Remote loading refers to images being referenced and displayed by other websites. Many popular free web space providers no longer allow remote loading, due to the bandwidth issues involved.
Normally, your Internet Service Provider (ISP) will offer you some free web space as a part of your monthly account. You should check with them and find out if they allow remote loading. If your ISP doesn't offer web space, or doesn't allow remote loading, you will need to search for other sites and review their policies to determine if they allow remote loading. In some cases, you may need to pay a small fee for the service.
InsaneJournal cannot suggest image hosting services, as their policies can change with little to no notice. However, InsaneJournal hopes to offer its own image hosting service within the next year.
Make sure that you either control the web space you are using, or have permission from the owner of the web space to use their images. Just because an image is on the Internet doesn't mean that it's available for use by anyone.
Once you have found an image host, see https://www.insanejournal.com/support/f
If your images are not displaying, but you know your webspace allows remote loading, you may also want to verify that you've typed the address of the image correctly, and have used the right filename.
Last Updated:
February 10th, 2021 (squeaky)
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