Placing a photo into a post.

We handled this topic on our March 16th, 2009 call. based on a few emails and comments of interest, it seems like a good item to revisit.

So back to the dashboard we go – look up at that strip across the top and you will see an oval that says New Post- select that.

If you have gone back to the main dashboard page you’ll see that same oval in the upper right or New Post on the upper left – you’ll even see a new post window under the words Quick Press

Pick any one of these and we’ll use it for our Blogging session today

Of course we’ll need a title – Feel free to use, “I can not believe how cool Cys is” (you can change it later)

In the content window you’ll need just a little bit of text or you may let the picture speak for itself.

I’ll wait just a minute while you type some thing like “Cys is on the phone showing us how to add a photo”

now hit return or enter on your keyboard so that the curser is under that your text.

Move your mouse to the little icons about the content box – the very first one that looks like a box inside of a box (almost like a picture frame) is what you want.

When you click on that you will have a window that says: Add media files from your computer

and a select files button (Choose files to upload )

Once you select that you’ll be able to locate the photo you wish to use on your computer

after it uploads you’ll see all kinds of stuff, like:

Title, Caption

Also used as alternate text for the image
Description

Link URL

None File URL Post URL

Enter a link URL or click above for presets.
Alignment
None Left Center Right
Size

Thumbnail (73 × 96)
Medium (228 × 300)
Large
Full size (302 × 397)
Delete

Click on insert into post and we’re good to go. Finish off your post in the usual manner by choosing category, tags, etc and please don’t forget to click on the pretty blue publish button.

If this was taking place on our call, you would hear me say: “While you are all finishing up Tech Support Dave will let me know if there are any questions in the queue. I’ll tackle those now. ” But since we are here in blogland, feel free to leave any questions in the comments fields.

Also, I poked about YouTube to find some helpful videos for one and all:

Adding Photos Using WordPress

Adding pictures to Blogger

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