One (not comfortable) way to embed an image is to use the "Image" menu option of the editor bundled with Elgg (or the Extended Tinymce editor) where you could embed images by providing an image url. For a Tidypics image you can use the image url that is used by the Download image menu entry in the title menu displayed when viewing an image. Not intuitively...

I've coded a simple plugin yesterday that would add a new tab to the bundled Embed popup where you can select the Tidypics image you want to embed in a posting. Right now it just lists all images available on the site. I guess not user-friendly with many images available. I can upload this plugin hopefully soon as it is. Maybe it can be used as a starting point to add some more options for embeding images, e.g. by search for image title or maybe even by adding a "Copy embed link" to Tidypics image pages and then offering a "Paste embed link" on the embed content popup.

Very good! The plugin Tidypics Image Embed functions all right.
Even usable with this version 4.2.2 – just enough to change the version requirement in JSON.

Actually, one functionality of Tidypics Image Embed was to be modified.
It shows all images from all users to select for embedding, which may be confusing. This should be limited to the current user's images.

Solution —
in the file:

views/default/embed/tidypics_image_embed/tidypics_image_embed.php

inside

echo elgg_list_entities

to add a condition on a new line:

'owner_guid' => elgg_get_logged_in_user_guid(),

So far, nobody has asked for such a feature. I don't think I'll implement such a feature either. In the end you can always search for images matching a tag on your site without the need for it to be dealt with already when uploading an image.

Another possibility to get such a feature could be to create a separate plugin that deals with the "virtual" folders / albums. Elgg is flexible enough to get this done looking smooth on the website with additional sidebar menu entries or new tabs. But I won't have time to work on such a plugin either.

It's not about TidyPics or Blog plugins but File plugin.

Every time you upload a file, an event appears in the activity.

It doesn't matter where you do it when creating a blog or when uploading a file normally.

I haven't found a way to do this using Elgg API (none of the hooks I know work for files).

Therefore, I can advise to use the custom view:

/mod/my_plugin/view/default/river/object/file/create.php

With empty code:

<?php

You can take my plugin from here so as not to create a new one and put the above file there.

Thank you, Nikolai. Much appreciated.

Tidypics supports 3 image libraries: default is GD php extension (which is required to be available by Elgg core). And then there's the Imagick php extension (which you would have to make sure it's installed in your XAMPP environment). Lastly, there's the ImageMagick command line option which makes use of the convert command available within the ImageMagick package. The path to the convert command would only be necessary to provide if you want to use the ImageMagick command line tools.

I have to admit that I can't tell for sure if the ImageMagick option works on XAMPP/Windows. I never tried it and as I have no Windows I couldn't even try it. If you provide the full path to the directory where the convert command, i.e. where you installed ImageMagick to - try also with a slash at the end of the path - it either works or it might be the confirmation that it does not work on Windows. You can also try the path on the ImageMagick tab where you would get some version information provided by the convert command if it's found at the path and can be executed.

If the ImageMagick command line tools option doesn't work on XAMPP, you might try to get the Imagick php extension option to work as it's at least better than the default GD php extension because the latter has quite high memory consumption for resizing images with a high resolution. The other two image libary options don't have these memory issue.

Thank you, iionly, for your detailed response.

I installed the ImageMagick PHP extension and everything appears to be working fine.
The TidyPics Server Information tab displays:
             imagick    Enabled    
             exec()    Enabled    Required for ImageMagick command line

My site's production server is Linux, so the ImageMagick path will probably resolve correctly. If I do manage to get the ImageMagick command line tools working without the PHP extension, I'll post the results.

Thanks again.

Use this PR.

In the future, ask questions to the author of the plugin on the plugin's page ;)

I deleted the line 

'filter_id' => 'izap_videos_tabs',

and it is working now. Thank you so much, sorry for posting in the wrong spot!

Thanks for reporting the bug. And thanks for providing the PR already. I'll add the fix in the next release (due to the easy way to correct the problem I won't make a new release immediatelly though).

Don't worry about location you opened the discussion. It's the "Tidypics" group after all. And I got the info about the bug from the posting here, too.

Are you reallly asking about DOWNloading or is it about UPloading?

I don't know of any download size restrictions.

I guess you refer to the default memory limit set by Elgg of 64 megabyte. If you need to increase this value, you can modify the value set for memory_limit in Elgg's .htaccess file in the root folder of your Elgg installation. If you need to increase the value for Tidypics thumbnail creation to work, you might also want to check if the values for upload_max_filesize and post_max_size in .htaccess suit your requirements (upload_max_filesize = maximum filesize of uploaded images; post_max_size >= upload_max_filesize x number of images you allow to be uploaded with Tidypics in one batch).

Suggestion: if you have either the Imagick php extension or the Image Magick package installed on your server, you can select either of these options in the Tidypics plugin settings to be used as image library as both have much lower memory requirements (and provide better resize quality results, too).