Inserting Images into Your Blog Posts

 
• Link URL: If you want the image linked to a URL, type that URL in
this text box. Alternately, select the appropriate option button to
determine where your readers go when they click the image you
uploaded: Selecting None means the image isn’t clickable, File URL
directs readers through to the image itself, and Post URL directs
readers through to the post in which the image appears.
• Alignment: Select None, Left, Center, or Right. (See Table 3-1, later in
this chapter, for styling information regarding image alignment.)
• Size: Select Thumbnail, Medium, Large, or Full Size.
WordPress automatically creates small- and medium-sized versions of
the images you upload through the built-in image uploader. A thumb-
nail is a smaller version of the original file. You can edit the size of the
thumbnail by clicking the Settings link and then clicking the Media
menu link. In the Image Sizes section of the Media Settings page, desig-
nate your desired height and width of the small and medium thumbnail
images generated by WordPress.

 

If you’re uploading more than one image, skip to the “Inserting a Photo Gallery” section, later in this chapter.

Click the Edit Image button (shown in Figure 3-2) to edit the appear-

ance of the image.
The image editor (see Figure 3-3) options are represented by icons
shown across the top of the image editor window and include
• Crop: Cut the image down to a smaller size.
• Rotate Counter-Clockwise: Rotate the image to the left.
• Rotate Clockwise: Rotate the image to the right.
• Flip Vertically: Flip the image upside down and back again
• Flip Horizontally: Flip the image from right to left and back again.
• Undo: Undo any changes you made.
• Redo: Redo images edits that you’ve undone.
• Scale Image: The option drop-down list appears, giving you the abil-
ity to set a specific width and height for the image.
Click the Insert into Post button.

The Add an Image window closes, and the Add New Post page (or the

Add New Page page, if you’re writing a page) reappears. WordPress has inserted the HTML to display the image in your post, as shown in Figure 3-4; you can continue editing your post, save it, or publish it.