When Wordland.social initially rolled out, I was fascinated/delighted. It seemed almost too good to be true. It wasn’t – Wordland.social is terrific.
But I had trouble uploading images. Here is the information that I would add to the report about my solution.
SOLUTION: This was a Jetpack problem. It turns out that I did have Jetpack installed, but without the JSON API. My blog (RandomNeuronsFiring.com) is a very old site (started, I think, in 2013). I am unsure when I first installed Jetpack, but it could well have been before the JSON API arrived, so perhaps it was never turned on by default.
Why was troubleshooting this so hard? There were a couple confounding factors:
* It’s an atypical configuration – Jetpack was installed but without (today’s) default use of the JSON API
* Posting _text_ worked fine (see recent posts at https://RandomNeuronsFiring.com) It was confusing when posting images to my blog did not work.
* Posting images to another (more recently created) blog worked fine. I assume that the Jetpack installation defaulted the JSON API to be on when this site was created.
I found the answer by searching some of the other Issues, and saw someone mention Jetpack settings. I then checked the Docs and noticed the Jetpack JSON API requirement. So I found that checkbox in the WordPress/Jetpack configuration, and Presto! It started working.
I hope this advice – a) ensure Jetpack is installed; b) ensure the JSON API is turned on – can make it into a Troubleshooting section of the documentation in the future. Thanks as always.
