Image Can Be Uploaded to a Blog

To add an image to a blog postal service or page yous can upload a file from your figurer, insert an image from your web log's Media Library, or link to an image hosted on another website such every bit  a public image archive. Y'all can adjust image alignment in a paragraph, modify the size an image appears on the folio, add a caption, and more.

Annotation: Your weblog comes with 1 GIG of storage. To preserve storage space, nosotros recommend resizing big images before uploading. If you lot upload full-sized digital camera files, you will presently run out of storage!

To add an epitome gallery or slide show, see Create Image Galleries & Slide Shows on Your Blog.

Insert an Image in a Blog Post or Page

1. On the Dashboard Chief Card, click Posts or Pages. Add together a new post or folio, or open an existing one to edit.
2. On the Add /Edit screen, in the text entry box, place your cursor where you want to insert the image.
3. In a higher place the Editor Toolbar click Add media.
   
   The Insert Media dialog opens to the Media Library.
4. In the Insert Media dialog select the image to insert:

   To upload an prototype from your computer:
   ane. Click the Upload Files tab (at meridian).  The Insert Media dialog will fresh with the message: "Drop files anywhere to upload."
   2. Drag and driblet an paradigm file from a window on your figurer desktop onto the upload window, or to browse for a file to upload, click Select Files, and so click Open. The Media Library tab will open showing a filigree of images in your library, and the thumbnail for the newly added paradigm will be highlighted and checked indicating it is selected to insert.
   Annotation: There is an upload limit of 20 MB per upload.

   To select an image already uploaded to your blog:
   1. Click the Media Library tab. Thumbnails of the images in your Media Library will be displayed.
   two. Click on an image thumbnail to select the image to insert. The selected image volition exist highlighted and checked.

   To select an image stored on an external Spider web site:
   i. In the Insert Media panel (at left), click Insert from URL. The dialog title will alter to Insert from URL.
   2. Enter the URL to a .jpg or .png image.
   Note: This method does not work with the shared link from Google Bulldoze or Box. Also, settings described below for adjusting dimensions, scaling, or cropping, are not available for images inserted from a URL

5. Once you've selected the image to insert, review the Zipper Details (at correct) and enter as needed:
   • URL: This is the permanent address for the epitome. (Non editable)
   • To crop, rotate, or scale the prototype, click Edit Epitome (below the paradigm thumbnail and file information). For details, come across Crop and Scale Media Library Images below.
   • Title, Caption, andDescription: Depending on your theme and plugins, these may display in diverse means.
   •  Alt text: (Required) Enter a text description of the image for visually impaired or other visitors using screen reading software (necessary for accessibility compliance).
   • Link to URL or Custom URL: To make the paradigm a link to website or custom file, enter aURL. (See too, Link to settings in Step half-dozen.)
   • Custom Target: To make a custom link open up in a new browser Tab, select New Tab. (Default opens the link in the same browser window).
   • Crop Position: If yous cull a preset size  (see Size,beneath) with a dissimilar aspect ratio than your original paradigm, you can control how the prototype volition exist cropped. Click a dot in the grid to focus the ingather on the most of import area of an image.
6. Below the Attachment Details, set theAttachment Display Settings (you may need to scroll down to see the settings options):
   • Alignment:
     • Noneinserts the image "inline" in the text.
     • Centered inserts the image on it's ain line, and centered on the page.
     • Left or Right positions the side of text and wraps text around the image.
   • Link to: To brand a small-scale version of an prototype to open to the total-sized image in a modal overlay, select Media File.
     To make the image "unclickable," select None.
   • Size: Select a preset or custom sizefor the epitome to display on the page. Chose bewteenThumbnail, Medium,Full-sized or Custom.
     Note: Preset dimensions vary according to your blog'due south theme. Themes are responsive and will reduce the display size of over-sized images to fit on the page without breaking the layout or distorting the image.
7. Click Insert into Mail/ Page. Yous will be returned to the Edit screen where your image will appear on your postal service or page.
8. To save changes, click Update (at height-right on Edit screen).

Edit Image Details for an Inserted Image

You can change how an image appears afterward it is inserted on a page or post.

1. On the Edit Postal service or Page screen, click the image. Icons volition announced at the superlative of the image you can use to Align,Edit orDelete.
   
2. To align the image in its paragraph, click an alignment button (Align left, Align center, Align right, or No alignment).
3. To shrink the prototype without distorting, drag diagonally a corner handle. (If y'all enlarge the epitome, the quality will endure.) Yous can also resize the image in the side by side steps past editing the prototype details.
4. For boosted options, click the Edit icon (pencil). The Prototype Details dialog volition open with options similar to theAttachment Details and Settings you lot run into when inserting an epitome.
   1. In the Image Details dialog, set the backdrop for your image.
   two. To save the changes to the image, click Update (at bottom). The Image Details dialog volition close and you'll exist returned to the Edit Post or Edit Page screen.
5. To salve the changes to the post or page, click Update (upper-right).

Crop and Calibration Media Library Images

WordPress provides image editing tools to scale, crop, and rotate images. Each fourth dimension you insert a version of an image that has been rotated, cropped or scaled, WordPress stores a subconscious copy in your blog storage and preserves the original for future use.  This lets you post different sizes and crops of the same epitome on unlike pages of your blog.
Note: These tools work merely for images uploaded to your blog'southward Media Library and will non work on images inserted from a URL.

Edit an image

You can edit an prototype from the Media Library before you insert it on a page,  while inserting, or later inserting the epitome.

1. To open up the Edit Image interface for an image:

   From the Media Library:
   1. From the Dashboard toolbar clickMedia Library, select the image.
   ii. Click Edit (beneath the image name). The Edit Image modal popular-up volition open.

   From an Edit Page or Edit Post screen:
   one. Click Insert media, or for an paradigm already inserted, click it'sedit icon (pencil) to open the epitome properties.
   2. Nether Zipper Details (at right. below the preview image) click Edit Paradigm or Edit Original.  The Edit Image modal popular-up will open up.

2. In the Edit Paradigm pop-up:

   To ingather the paradigm
   ane. Drag across the preview image (at left) to select the area to preserve.
   Alternately, you can enter an aspect ration (due east.yard. 1:1 for square), or precise pixel dimension under Epitome Ingather (at right), then elevate the Crop box from it's eye to position it.
   2. Click the Crop icon. The preview image will refresh showing your changes.
   3. Below the preview prototype, click Salve. Yous'll be returned to the Image Details dialog.
    (click to enlarge)

   To scale (resize) the image
   1. Nether Scale Image (at right), enter a new pixel dimension for the elevation or width (You only need to enter one dimension. WordPress volition summate the other to prevent the epitome from being distorted).
   2. Click Scale. The preview paradigm will resize to the new dimensions.
   Note: Disengage and Redo buttons to a higher place the epitome preview only piece of work before yous salve changes.
   3. Click Back (at bottom-right).  The Edit Image dialog volition close and y'all'll exist returned to the Image Details dialog..
     (click to enlarge)

3. Click Update or Insert into Mail/Page. The Image Details dialog volition close and the edited version of the epitome volition be inserted.
4. To save the changes to the postal service or page, click Update (at correct on Edit screen).

Restore an Edited Prototype

Each fourth dimension you lot go to insert an prototype that has been been scaled, cropped or rotated, y'all'll see the virtually recent edited version. To restore the image every bit originally uploaded:

1. Below the proper noun of an image in the Media Library that yous have edited, click Edit. The Eastwarddit Media screen volition open up showing bones editing options.
2. On the Edit Media screen, below the preview of the paradigm, click Edit image. The screen will expand to evidence the full editing options.
3. Click Restore Original Image (at right). The panel volition expand to show the message:  "Discard any changes and restore the original paradigm. Previously edited copies of the image will not be deleted."
4. Click Restore image. The paradigm will appear as originally uploaded.
5. Click Salve. Yous tin now insert a new copy of the image.

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Source: https://www.umass.edu/it/support/blogs/insert-or-edit-images-blog-posts-or-pages

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