Title: Image Viewing Problems
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Image Viewing Problems

 *  [cycletheplanet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cycletheplanet/)
 * (@cycletheplanet)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-viewing-problems/)
 * I have ftp’d images to my WordPress test site. In developing a new theme based
   on K2, I cannot view them when using the <img> tag in the xhtml. In IE the images
   are displayed as red x’s. In Mozilla Firefox, only the “alt” text displays.
    
   I have spent hours trying to work through this problem amd cannot find a solution.
   Is there someone out there who can help PLEASE??
 * Thanks,
 * Antoine (www.cycletheplanet.com -> currently switching to wordpress from joomla)

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 *  [Adam Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamrbrown/)
 * (@adamrbrown)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-viewing-problems/#post-576492)
 * The <img> tag has an incorrect src parameter set, apparently. But it’s not clear
   to me what you did. Did you put the images into posts, or into your theme?
 * When I look at your site, I see an image in the upper left, but no broken images.
   Maybe be a little more specific…
 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-viewing-problems/#post-576493)
 * Your not using the correct path to the images. I like to use this in my themes.
   `
   <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory');>/images/image.jpg" alt="image"/
   >` The `/images/` is the folder inside the theme directory that holds the themes.
   Using this if you decide to release your theme it will work no matter the structure
   of other’s wordpress.
 *  Thread Starter [cycletheplanet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cycletheplanet/)
 * (@cycletheplanet)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-viewing-problems/#post-576494)
 * Just a quick reply, I can give more tomorrow.
 * >> Did you put the images into posts, or into your theme?
 * I put the images in my theme like this:
    I am using <img src=”img/imagename”>
 * I have also tried with: src=”/theme/themename/img”
 * I have also tried with src=”[http://web16&#8230](http://web16&#8230);
 * All to no avail.
 * Any more thoughts?
 * Thanks for your help.
 *  Thread Starter [cycletheplanet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cycletheplanet/)
 * (@cycletheplanet)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-viewing-problems/#post-576637)
 * I have added:
    <img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’);>/images/image.
   jpg” alt=”image” />
 * This crashes the site, making it go completely blank.
    Only the removal of this
   line from the source code of the header file resolves the problem.
 * Additionally, the theme must be removed and replaced.
 * Accessing the image directly such as:
 * [http://www.site.com/themes/themename/images.gif](http://www.site.com/themes/themename/images.gif)
 * causes an error 404
 * Thus, the image also does not load when it is displayed from within the code 
   of the site.
 * Does anyone have any ideas why this problem happens??
 * Thanks.
 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-viewing-problems/#post-576638)
 * `<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory');>/images/image.jpg" alt="image"/
   >`
    should have called the image if you correctly changed the paths on the code.
   If your getting a 404 error then the image either isn’t there or the permissions
   are set wrong on the file.
 *  [transitmonger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/transitmonger/)
 * (@transitmonger)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-viewing-problems/#post-576926)
 * Hi! I’m having a similar problem.
 * My file is definitely there, and wordpress can reach it through the url() function.
   But I can’t reach it by direct navigation nor through <img src=”” />.
 * Therefore, it must be permissions. How do I change the permissions?

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