When posting an article with a link the easiest way I’ve gotten links to display correctly is to include it in a separate post and not with the excerpt text. The you can just hit a carriage return and the link displays correctly.
I'll try it, thanks.
I get a tiny square that I cannot open. I never used to get that. I get that same little square when I send it to myself from gmail or from AOL. That is what I fought for about an hour before giving up and just posting a link. Maybe I am using an old FR HTML sandbox description of how to post images.
I looked back at photos I posted on FreeRepublic in the past. I had successfully posted them on Flickr, and I linked to the Flickr image in my old FR post. I tried to post those same photos again using the Flickr image info. They would not post anymore. All I have been able to post now is a link to an image. There must be a way to post an image itself, but I haven’t found the current way to do it yet.
Heading to bed.
That works only if there are NO html commands anywhere in your post. If there are any at all, it won't "hot link". The FR post "html sandbox" lists a way to "hot link" when there are html commands in your post. It also tells how to reliably include a web photo in your post.