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Question

When I add images to my pages, they don’t appear on the page. What gives?

Answer

The problem is likely related to either the “page position” setting for the images or incomplete loading of images when adding image sizes manually.

Check the “Page Position” field for the image

The “Page Position” field determines where the image should be displayed on the page. If the “do not display on page” option is selected, the image will not display at all.

If you select “image gallery” but the page template does not include Big Medium’s <%gallery%> widget, then the image will not display. Likewise, if you select “other position on page” then the image will display only if the page template includes the <%images%> widget with the limit="other" attribute or no limit attribute at all. (If you’re not sure whether your page templates include the <%images%> or <%gallery%> widgets, check with your Big Medium administrator or webmaster.)

For more on the <%images%> and <%gallery%> widgets, see their entries in the “Widgets” chapter of the Big Medium 2 book.

The remaining page positions should display the images within the content of the page text itself, within Big Medium’s <%content%> widget. If you see neither content nor images on your pages, then your page template may not include the <%content%> widget. If that’s the case, add the <%content%> widget to your page template and give it another go.

Are you loading image sizes manually?

In Big Medium, every image has multiple versions, one for each size. 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 image size that you want to use. In that case, when you add a new image to Big Medium, you will see an individual field for every image size.

If you do not load an image for the specific size that you have set to display on your pages, then no image will display on that page. For example, say that you have your page-image size set to “Small (200x200 max).” If you do not load an image for that size, then no image will be displayed on the page, even if you load other sizes of that same image. In our example, you must load an image for the “Small (200x200 max)” image size for the image to display.

If you’re not sure what the page-image size is, administrators and webmasters can check and change this setting on the “Images” screen of the site’s HTML preferences (“Settings > HTML Preferences”).

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).