First off nothing but praise for those who make this happen, great asset.
I find the published posts (to Discourse) do not have active image links, Is there a way to get image links to reain active when they transfer from the blog to the forum?
My âallowed iframesâ is set to allow the domains, am I missing something?
I noted one from Amazon didnât even post at all.
Just so Iâm sure Iâm understanding your issue, could you give a bit more detail on what you mean by âactive image linksâ? I thought you might mean images in iframes or gifs, but I donât see any on the Wordpress post you linked.
@anon48433008 There are a few ways this can occur as the WP Discourse plugin does some minor HTML parsing, then Discourse also does some HTML parsing, and re-scraping. The link stripping is most likely occurring in Discourseâs HTML parsing and re-scraping i.e. in the way Discourse handles HTML embedded in posts. For example see
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Rather than seek a âtechnicalâ fix, my specific advice here is to separate links from images, e.g. by using a link underneath the image. I understand that youâd prefer to keep them as one, however youâre going to be fighting an uphill battle on that front to get it working consistently. Separating them may work.
Essentially, Discourse does not aim for HTML fidelity on imported posts. It aims for content fidelity for the purposes of discussion. Your Wordpress > Discourse strategy should be framed with that in mind, meaning that you want your users to be reading the post on Wordpress, with the version of it on Discourse just there as a reference for discussion.