Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5645428-20150505133908

After a long while, there is finally an easy way to post images from off-site!

It soon became clear that for the wiki to be the best encyclopedic source for everything Geometry Dash, as part of its comprehensive organisaion system that also includes images, audio and videos, such which is not an integral part should be included seperately outside of the main content flow. This mostly includes images posted in the forum and on profile pages. For a while now, images posted in these sections have either been deleted after a few days or simply left there. That has worked well enough up to this point, but now we're looking towards more effective solutions.

In the past, I mentioned using Template:ExternalImageLoader for posting off-site images, but, its name was already enough of a hassle to remember combined with fidgety template code that messed up half the time. So, I made some adjustments, and now it is Template:Image, as predictable a name for the kind of thing it is as you can get! All that needs to be done is typing the template name followed by the image URL (all in double curly brackets) and voila! There you have an image without even needing to upload it! And similar to how it's normally done, an alignment, size and caption can also be set! An example:

Not hard, just remember that you need to specify everything in that order, meaning you can't set a caption if you haven't aligned and sized your image. Also remember that you do not need to specify px for the sizing. Check out the template itself for more details, and you can always ask if you need any help!

With this advancement, in the coming days, images on profiles will begin disappearing as we shift to the new system, where you will be able post any image as long as it has a place somewhere on the Internet (except scrappy memes and MLG material which will be burned!). This is a warning to save all the images you have on your profiles! You can post them again using Template:Image anytime.

There's no need to leave broken links lying around to be cleaned up and I'd much rather help you figure it out instead of guessing, so once again, if you you're looking for some assistance, don't be afraid to ask! Remember, you can always edit your comments as well if you don't get it right the first time. And, my personal thanks for being the awesome community you are right now! 