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Question

I added images to my pages, but they don’t appear with my links. What gives?

Answer

Check the image’s “include with links” field

When you add an image to a page, make sure that you select something other than “No links” in the “Include with Links” field for the image. For example, to make the image appear with all links to the page (other site preferences allowing), choose “All links.”

After saving the page, if the image still does not appear with your links...

Check the HTML preferences for your link widgets

This requires an account with webmaster or administrator privileges:

Go to “Settings> HTML Preferences” and then to the “Links” screen. In the panel(s) for the widget(s) where you would like to display images, make sure that the “Link Image Display” is not set to “Do not include image” and that the “Link Image Size” is set to the size you want. After making these changes, save the settings, and rebuild all pages.

If the image still does not appear with your links...

Check section properties for custom settings

Individual sections can have custom display preferences that override the settings described in the previous section. If your HTML preferences check out as described in the previous section, check to make sure that you have not overridden those preferences with custom settings.

This requires an account with webmaster or administrator privileges: Go to “Settings > Section Properties.” A gear is displayed next to sections with custom settings; if there’s a gear beside the section (or one of its parent sections) whose links are not displaying your image, click “Customize Display Preferences” under that section. Click “Links” to edit the section and review the settings as described above for the general HTML preferences.

Important: For the <%latest%> and <%quicktease%> widgets, the display is affected by the preferences of the section whose links are being displayed, not the section where you place the widget. For example, if you have a <%latest slug="news"%> widget on your homepage, the display is driven by the settings for the news section, not for the homepage. In this example, be sure that your “news” section’s properties have the image settings you expect.

If the image still does not appear with your links...

Are you loading image sizes manually?

If so, the problem may be related to how you’re loading images. In Big Medium, every image has multiple versions, one for each size. If the specific size that you have set for a link image is not loaded, then no image will display. For example, say that you have your link image size for <%links%> set to “Thumbnail (60x60 max).” Even if you add an image to a page and set it to display with all links, no image will be displayed if there’s no thumbnail version loaded for that image.

For servers that have ImageMagick or another supported image library installed, Big Medium sizes and generates all of these various versions for you automatically behind the scenes. But if you do not have ImageMagick, you need to manually load each size of image that you want to use.

For details on how all of this works and for pointers on loading images manually, please see the Big Medium 2 book (specifically, the “Images & Media” section of the “Editing Webpages” chapter, and the “Image Management” chapter). The book is available here for free download.