# Getting images to appear in posts

**URL:** <https://discuss.write.as/t/getting-images-to-appear-in-posts/20191>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [December 18, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/getting-images-to-appear-in-posts/20191 "2025-12-18T17:08:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![hello-kate](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7ab992/32.png) [@hello-kate](https://discuss.write.as/u/hello-kate)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/getting-images-to-appear-in-posts/20191/1 "2025-12-18T17:08:24Z")

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Hi there, sorry if this is a silly question!

I just uploaded a bunch of photos to snap.as, thinking that would be a useful place to store pics I might use in posts. I’ve started a new blog, and can’t work out how to get the pictures from snap.as into the write.as post.

If I do “add image from url”, all I get in the published post is the alt text and a broken picture icon

If I add the code from snap.as like the instructions say, I just get the text of the code in the post - see screenshot attached.

what am I doing wrong?!

grateful for any help, I’m really trying to be better at posting and am really hoping I can make this a bit more frictionless…

 ![Screenshot 2025-12-16 at 14.59.03](https://discuss.write.as/uploads/default/original/2X/d/dd4ea9808e1d5e3e62fd3a1e7d02650eae3033e5.png)

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**Author:** ![harmonpa214](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/harmonpa214/32/5655_2.png) [@harmonpa214](https://discuss.write.as/u/harmonpa214)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/getting-images-to-appear-in-posts/20191/2 "2025-12-18T17:18:42Z")

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Hey @hello-kate , Customer Service Rep Peter here, just wanted to let you know I assigned this to Matt, I’m new here and still learning some of the ropes here on the technical side, but he’ll be able to get back to you to figure out how to be able to insert images into write.as.

Thanks for your patience,  
Peter

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**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/getting-images-to-appear-in-posts/20191/4 "2025-12-18T19:17:31Z")

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Happy to help here – and not a silly question at all! So the code shown on Snap.as is the plain Markdown meant only for the **Plain Text** editor.

If you’re instead using the **Rich Text** editor, you’ll want to select Insert \> Image, and then paste _only_ the Snap.as URL (`https://i.snap.as/K75Hy3vv.jpg`) into the “URL” field, and then the alt text (“Deepa’s work”) into the “Alt text” field below, and then press Enter. That will look something like this:

 ![Screenshot from 2025-12-18 14-09-40](https://discuss.write.as/uploads/default/original/2X/0/07fb5d4a8afef1fa2733417bdc0594100f672667.png)

Alternatively, if you’re already using the Rich Text editor, you can always upload images directly into your post by clicking in the gray area at the bottom of the editor, shown below. This will still store the image in Snap.as, but will easily insert it into your post as well.

 ![Screenshot from 2025-12-18 14-16-09](https://discuss.write.as/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d542292e559df19386b138877b8111134268b22d.png)

Let me know if I can clear anything else up!

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**Author:** ![hello-kate](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7ab992/32.png) [@hello-kate](https://discuss.write.as/u/hello-kate)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 9:37am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/getting-images-to-appear-in-posts/20191/6 "2025-12-19T09:37:30Z")

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Thank you! that did work, very helpful