Image links not appearing when published to Wordpress

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

Thanks @Canapin.

@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 Discourse’s HTML parsing and re-scraping i.e. in the way Discourse handles HTML embedded in posts. For example see

Embeds stripped when "show full post..." button is clicked

For example, I inserted a Youtube video inline in a WP post that got pushed to Discourse as a topic. When people click the “Show full post…” button, for some reason the Youtube video doesn’t come through. (I’m only guessing this is true for all embeds. Perhaps it’s a Youtube-specific problem?)

Or

How to customize the text in an embedded post?

Thanks for explaining Kevin. There are no settings specifically directed at this issue, but there’s two ways you could approach this. Customize what HTML is pulled from your site The way embeds work is that they scrape the content from a site using the Readability gem. The gem and it’s output use the following options to filter what HTML is scraped opts[:whitelist] = SiteSetting.allowed_embed_selectors if SiteSetting.allowed_embed_selectors.present? opts[:blacklist] = SiteSetting.blocked_embe…

Rather than seek a “technical” fix, my specific advice here is to separate links from images, e.g. by using a link underneath the image. I understand that you’d prefer to keep them as one, however you’re 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.