I understand the use of images elsewhere and the link. Purposefully, so they won’t be interpreted here I’m using { instead of [, what is wrong with the following?

{img}https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2GmQiwEqZg5VUd3WUtoUExvODg/view?usp=sharing{/img}

hmm, exactly what i did, but a public google drive location … link works fine from other computers so that’s not the issue … and i have a severe aversion to dropbox … guess it is a wordpress quirk.

Ah well … THANKS!

Thanks again … but that was done. It says anyone with the link can view.

I posted the same file on another forum, and it works, so it is something in the config here. If you search for here, you’ll find many of those unclickable little things, but I don’t know how to do the “view source” type thing on other than my own posts.

As my young daughter is prone to say … “whatever …”

That’s a whole lot better than where I was, but how do people here show the photos of setups, etc, etc, which display inline?

THANKS for the GREAT help! Now to edit my post with the question and remove the image tag delineation.

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http://s354.photobucket.com/user/moreause/media/genesis/2014-11-03095323_zpsba17901b.jpg.html

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seem in photobucket the img link work

i replaced [] with {} so you can see the code

{URL=http://s354.photobucket.com/user/moreause/media/genesis/2014-11-03095323_zpsba17901b.jpg.html}{IMG}http://i354.photobucket.com/albums/r416/moreause/genesis/2014-11-03095323_zpsba17901b.jpg{/IMG}{/URL}

I see that this thread is quite old, but you are right about the problem being down to https vs http.
I spent several hours today, struggling to get images that were stored on Drive or Dropbox to embed. All I could get was simply to display the URL.
Luckily I found this thread, and your last suggestion prompted me to drop the images that I wanted to display into the root folder on my website’s server (which doesn’t use secure sockets), and now it works!

EDIT:
Another difference is that when using my website as storage, the image’s URL is http://www.xxxx.com/xxxxx.jpg , whereas the URL for Drive / Dropbox refers to a webpage that will display the image, rather than directly to the image itself. I suspect that this is probably more likely to be the reason.