{"id":93855,"date":"2012-08-16T00:05:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T04:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=93855"},"modified":"2013-04-24T23:13:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T03:13:09","slug":"daily-tip-enable-images-in-wordpress-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/daily-tip-enable-images-in-wordpress-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable Images in WordPress Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you can&#8217;t trust users with the ability to leave media in comments, especially on a site where commenting is open to all. If your users are considerate and trustworthy, adding images to comments opens up an opportunity for more discussion. <a title=\"Comment Images WordPress plugin\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/comment-images\/\" target=\"_blank\">Comment Images<\/a> is a new plugin that makes it easy for users to upload an image while leaving a comment.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how your comment form will look when you have this <a href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/how-to-quickly-and-easily-customize-the-wordpress-comments-form\/\" target=\"_blank\">comment form plugin<\/a> installed:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-93859\" title=\"leave-reply\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/leave-reply.png\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"494\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Images in comments are formatted nicely to fit in the space:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-93860\" title=\"comment-image\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/comment-image.png\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"539\" height=\"513\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comment Images features:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Notifies the administrator if the plugin is not compatible with their hosting environment<\/li>\n<li>Supports PNG, GIF, JPG, and JPEG images<\/li>\n<li>Notifies readers if their attached image is not allowed to be uploaded<\/li>\n<li>Styles images so that they will fit within the comment display and not &#8220;bleed over&#8221; into the page<\/li>\n<li>Is fully localized and ready for translation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please note that it is only compatible with the standard WordPress comment form right now and will not work with Jetpack.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Comment Images WordPress plugin\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/comment-images\/\" target=\"_blank\">Comment Images<\/a> is not a plugin that I&#8217;d recommend for every WordPress site. It would probably work best in a site that is invitation-only or has commenting limited to registered members. Check out the plugin&#8217;s <a title=\"Comment Images\" href=\"http:\/\/tommcfarlin.com\/comment-images\/\" target=\"_blank\">homepage<\/a> for more information and <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/comment-images\/\" target=\"_blank\">download<\/a> it for free from the WordPress plugin repository.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to keep the conversation going on your WordPress posts? Allow users to support their thoughts by adding images to comments on your site. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":93865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[264],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-93855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","tag-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93855"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=93855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}