word press tutorials - uploading images

Working with images requires you to have some working knowledge of image editing software such a Photoshop, or whatever software came with your digital camera / scanner. This tutorial will not cover how to edit, resize or optimise your images. If you don't understand what these words mean, you shouldn't be adding images to your website without some training.

1. While in post or edit mode, you may add images to your posts. Underneath the Title & Post boxes, there's a large box with Upload & Browse All as menu options. Click on Upload if it's not already displaying.
2. First you much choose the image you wish to upload. It needs to be on your computer and already resized and optimised for the internet. If it's not, you're quite possibly going to create an unpleasant experience for your visitor and create a bad image for your business. Click the Browse button, search for the file on your computer then click the OPEN button
3. Title & Description - put something meaningful in here. If you're going to choose to just link to the photo (see below) and not actually display it on the page, the text used to link to the photo will be the Title.
4. Click the UPLOAD button.
5. You should now be on the Browse All tab. All we have done so far is to upload the image to the web server. It is not in your diary entry yet.
6. Click on the image you wish to put in your diary entry and a sub-menu will pop up. Each time to click on one of the items listed in the menu, it changes. We'll go through each of the 5 and their options
   Position 1 - Using Thumbnail, the software will make a tiny version of your image and link to the larger version. This way, it doesn't take up too much space on the screen.
   -or- Using Original will insert the image at it's original size.
   Position 2 - Not linked, the image will not link to anything - Linked to image, the small version created will link to the big version of the image all on it's own - LInked to page, means that when people click on the small version of the image, the large version will display on the website with all the rest of page still there (navigation, logo etc).
   Position 3 - Send to Editor, the image will now be inserted in to your diary entry.
   Position 4 - will delete the file from the server
   Position 5 - will close the menu options.
7. We suggest you try a few different settings, choose Save and Continue Editing, then use the preview pane at the bottom of the screen to see if you like the results you got. Your first few diary entries with images may be trial and error. If this is too difficult, please contact us for a training session on site.