How to add pictures in a post

Adding a picture or image into the wordpress post involves three main steps:

1. Configuring Wordpress and the web server for allowing uploads.
2. Uploading the image to a website directory.
3. Linking to the image from your post.

1. Configuring upload

If you are not the administrator, please contact the administrator to check whether upload is available. Most likely, this step has been already performed and you should be able to upload using steps 2 and 3. If step 2 fails, contact your administrator.

– Configuring wordpress if you are administrator : to be added–

2. Uploading the image

a. Log into Wordpress with your username and password.

b. On the admin tab, click on ‘Upload’. You should now see the upload page. Click on ‘Browse’ and browse to the file in your PC that you want to upload.

c. Give a description of the picture in ‘Description:’

d. Leave ‘create thumbnail’ at the default ‘No Thanks’, unless you have specific reason to modify it.

e. Click on ‘Upload file’

f. You should see something like below:

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File uploaded!

Your file sample.jpg was uploaded successfully!

Here’s the code to display it:

The HTML code appears here.

Image Details:
Name:sample.jpg
Size:45.69 KB
Type:application/x-zip-compressed
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g. Select the html code fragment completely and copy it.

Adding the image link into the post

a. Open the post where you want the image.

b. Go to the exact place inside the post where the image shoould appear, and paste the html code that you copied above.

c. Save the post and view the post to see whether the image appears correctly.

Tips

1. If you are uploading a picture, be aware of the size (such as 320 x 240 pixels) of the image that would best fit into the post. You may want to re-size your image to this target size before uploading. To resize, you can use any photo editor application. If you are using a digital camera, then it surely came with a photo editor application. Or you can use free ones such as Gimp.