Difference between revisions of "Images in Wordpress"

Revision as of 16:05, 30 December 2015

Learn to insert images into your Posts or pages.

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Storing Images in your WordPress Media Library

Uploading Images To Wordpress

While editing your post or page, place the cursor in the page where you'd like the image inserted.
Click on theAdd Media icon (figure 1) and select an image from your computer (Select Files)
Customize the image size, alignment, caption
Click Insert into post

File storage space

By default all sites have a 100MB upload limit. You can request an increase from Academic Computing or consider using a cloud-based image storage solution.

Flickr share option

Cloud-based Image Hosting

Embed an image from Flickr.com

Create a flickr account and uploaded images
Navigate to the image you'd like to embed from your Flickr account
Click the Share button
Copy the URL to your image (under the "Grab Link" option)
Paste the URL to your image on its own line in your WordPress post or page

Still have WordPress questions?

Create a Help Ticket or call the Computer Center at 360-867-6227
WordPress FAQ - common questions
WordPress Tutorial - step by step introduction

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 #Click '''Insert into post'''
-==== Edit image properties afterwards ====
-You can customize how the image looks once you upload it.
-# Clicking on the image once in your page or post then click the edit image icon.  This will bring up the dialog box you saw when you first uploaded the image (figure 3).
-# From here you can realign, resize and add a caption.
+====File storage space====
+By default all sites have a 100MB upload limit. You can request an increase from Academic Computing or consider using a cloud-based image storage solution.