I’ve wanted to make my blog posts more visual for a while but selecting good stock images takes time. Creating them takes even more time!
Anyway, I decided to include an image from Pixabay (with credit) in yesterday’s post as well as in the one that I’ve scheduled for after my return to work in January.
I could quickly fill up my web space with images and I didn’t really want to expand my WordPress database with images either (they are currently hosted in a folder structure) but there is an option in WordPress to include media stored in Google Photos.
Unfortunately, my attempts to authorise access were met with a message about an “invalid/missing request nonce” (whatever that is). I tried another computer, in case the problem was related to cookies, or to restrictions on my work PC, but that was no help.
Then I tried another route…
Logging into wordpress.com (even though my blog is self-hosted with wordpress.org) and managing the marketing connections gave me an alternative interface to authorise WordPress with Google Photos. That then jumped into life:
After this, I could easily insert images from Google Photos into my blog posts.
And seriously, whoever decided that WordPress has something called a “nonce” should look it up in colloquial English…
Featured image by Kevin Phillips from Pixabay.
I know this was from a while ago, but after trying everything I could think of to address this “nonce” nonsense, your solution worked!!!! Thank you!
Your post helped me a lot! Thank you
Thank you! This helped me so much – I hadn’t thought to login to WordPress.com for my .org site and wouldn’t have without your post!
Thanks, that solved the issue!