I am creating a website using WordPress and currently trying to put social media buttons on the header using a text widget to input HTML but the images are not showing and I am wondering if it something to do with file permissions as when I started out developing the website I was trying to upload a header image and was getting the error “Unable to create directory [directory name] Is its parent directory writable by the server?” So I went into termnial and entered sudo chmod -R a+w /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/sitename/wp-content/ which solved my upload issue.
I am developing locally and when I use an external website as the src for the image it displays the button on my website.
My images are stored in:
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/sitename/wp-content/myimages/
The website files are located in:
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/sitename/wp-content/themes/twentyfifteen-child/
Now the src link should be:
src=”../../myimages/instagram.png”
but it is not and I have tried other variations even using the full link beginning from /Applications
So my question is whether this is indeed a file permission issue and if so what permissions should I use and how to enter it. However if it isn’t related to permissions what else can I do to rectify the problem?
either “/wp-content/myimages/img1.png” or just upload the images through the media upload in the cms, then grab the url from there. That makes it quicker also
you will be success to get images please try this
in you text widget please try to pass the file Path like below:
befor this please confirm the image location to load image path to browser
http://www.sitename.com/wp-content/myimages/img1.pngi am sure this will helps!!