Listen up. I think the problem with my images MAY have been solved. It was a server thing, and a WordPress tweak thing. I can now see photos in Chrome, Safari, and on my phone.
PLEASE let me know if you are seeing big blanks where photos should be – or if you’re not seeing the Elvis-kissing banner up top – or any other weirdnesses. Thank you for your patience!
Next up: a blog redesign but I just can’t face that right now.
Yay. For the first time in a very long time, I CAN see all the images on your page. I’m glad you were able to figure out the issue. It’s not nearly as rewarding an experience without all the great images and photos. Now, I’ll have to go back and read past postings where I hated not being able to see the photos.
Hooray!! It took some back and forth with my hosting service but they flipped a switch (or something) and I’m so happy to hear you see images now.
Hey Sheila – I can confirm that I can see your images in Safari and Chrome. I haven’t had any problems seeing images on your site, but it’s a few days since I was last here (so if this was something that happened over the weekend, I missed it).
For some people it’s been a long-standing issue – so I’m not sure why. It had something to do with http vs. https – and after that my eyes glaze over. lol
Thanks for confirming you’re seeing them though!!
I can see all the photos for the main landing page and for the newer posts, but last week I did a search for “In the Mood for Love” to see if you’d written about it (saw it for the first time a week ago, please forgive me), and none of your photos on that post were visible.
Old photos are going to be a problem – and have been. Some years back, I upgraded WP and – catastrophically – lost years of photos in the transfer. so we are going to run into that – it’s basically like 2003 – 2008 or so – some photos made the cut, others didn’t – and … that’s the way it stands unfortunately.
Glad to hear you’re seeing the newer ones though.
In the Mood for Love! I think the post I wrote was about how the whole thing was from the POV of the radio.
such a beautiful movie!
I have your blog added in a feed reader (NetNewsWire) and the photos don’t show; they’re just boxes with question marks in them. The mobile site in Safari works though.
Ugh – okay. I’m not sure what that means but I will pass on to my hosting help-desk person and see if there’s a fix. Thank you for letting me know!
Sure. This might be helpful for them from a quick look: https://woorkup.com/show-featured-image-wordpress-rss-feed/
I love the blog, great post on Longfellow the other day! That “Hyperion” line is gonna be rattling around in my head for years now.
Thank you! I will pass that on!
and yeah – that Hyperion line! I think about it all. the. time.
Should have mentioned that I use Firefox.
aha okay. Thank you. so we have the three browsers covered.
I didn’t even know there was a problem. I check in every day, usually from my desktop with Chrome, and the banner and all photos have displayed fine for me. Just wanted to let you know.
Awesome, happy to hear it!
and THANK YOU for checking in every day!
Daily visitor, but I always saw the images using http, not https. On the secure version the images didn’t render, but now they do! Huzzah!!!
Success!!
It works, yay! Now I won’t have to use my work laptop to check your blog. Which of course was the only reason I sometimes ended up reading about Jensen Ackles’ eyelashes instead of working. Damn technical issues! :)
lol speaking of which … guess whose birthday is tomorrow …
Should we celebrate by creating a ridiculously long thread? Good times!
totally here for it!
The photo of Kay Francis with her hat and cigarette is marvellous, but if you decide it’s time for a change, go for it!
DMW and DBW in one thread!
yes, I love that image of Kay Francis! I do rotate different people in and out of that wallpaper background – I know it’s totally not visible if you’re looking at my site on your phone – but I do like to put someone striking back there. The Alex Chilton wallpaper might have been my favorite.
As far as I know, I’ve always been able to see everything. That hasn’t changed.
Well, for many people it was a problem – but looks like it’s all fixed now. Thank you Christine at my hosting service!
Hey Sheila – longtime reader/fan. I too have been frustrated by missing images when I go back to see what you wrote about a film I just watched (something I do often and that really adds to my understanding of certain films – thanks!)
I recently discovered that if I use Internet Archive’s “Wayback Machine” (https://archive.org) I can find a snapshot of the blog post with images and read it there.
For example, here’s the link to the afore-mentioned post on “In the Mood for Love,” with images: https://web.archive.org/web/20151023225724/http://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=10015
The archive.org interface is a little weird, but basically once you paste in the URL of the post, you get a Calendar view showing all the existing snapshots. You then choose a year, and scroll down to a month and click on a date in blue to load the snapshot.
I try to choose a date as late as possible that still shows the images. If your choice doesn’t, you can click on the timeline at the top of the page or use the black arrows to go further back in time.
Yes, it’s a bit laborious, but you clearly put so much work into choosing the appropriate images that it seems the least I can do!
Matt – sorry, your comment got snagged by my spam filter because of the links – I rescued it.
thank you for weighing in with suggestions and thoughts!
yes, so those older posts – particularly the movie posts – from around 2005-2008? – I lost the photos entirely when I upgraded to another version of WP. so this is a separate issue than what I was recently dealing with – the http vs https thing – where virtually NO photos were showing up, even the most recent ones.
SO. Now that that SECOND one has been resolved – the former one remains. Unfortunately I don’t have the bandwidth to reconstruct all of the movie posts with the proper screengrabs – although your suggestions here are VERY welcome, seriously! I think one of the things that stopped me is that in general I do use my own screengrabs – to highlight this or that exact moment – and I just didn’t want to go through that to re-build. (Weirdly – sometimes if I google a moment in a film – one of MY screengrabs will be on the first page of results – **even if ** the post on my site now has no photos. I don’t know how the internet works). I have been able to put back together mostly all of my Dean Stockwell posts (2006-2007 ) in this way. Okay, maybe not all – there were so damn many Dean Stockwell posts – and it was basically ALL my own screengrabs.
So … I am not sure if I have the time to go back through – I need an intern!!
lol
HOWEVER – you are the second person in the last two weeks to mention that old In the Mood for Love post – so maybe I will go back and follow your instructions and rebuild that one. I wonder if people are re-discovering the movie right now – maybe it’s on the main page of Criterion or something? Not sure.
I certainly don’t want people to show up to my site and have it look like a dead or a defunct site!! – so … I’ll think a little bit about maybe going through methodically – one by one – not all at once – to put together these posts again.
Thanks so much for the input – AND for showing up periodically – even with all those blank photo spaces. I truly appreciate it!
Matt – I put In the Mood for Love back together – it’s 100 screengrabs – lol – I must have had a LOT of time on my hands back then. The screengrabs really are so pretty!
anyway, thanks so much!