Inserting An Image into a Wordpress Post
You can insert an image, as well as control is position by using the “Add Media” feature in Wordpress.
Go into your Admin area, then click on “Write”. Now click on the appropriate “Add Media” button. The add image button is the first one. This will take you to a screen where you choose the image you want to upload from your local hard drive. Fill in the informaion you want to be associated with your image. This is “meta” information that will not show within the post, but will accompany the image in the source code seen by the search engines.
Now tell it where you want to insert the image. If you choose “none” the image will not have text wrapped around it. Choosing “left”, “center”, or “middle” will wrap the text.
Here’s an example (below) of an image set to the right side with text wrapped.
Of course it is important that you choose the appropriate size image. Wordpresss lets you specify whether you want to use “thumbnail”, “medium”, or “full size”.
As you can see, sometimes this does not work as you might expect. Unless you tell it otherwise, WP will add a fine border around the image. The alignment of the image may also not work quite the way you want it to. In that case you can manually add html code to get the desired effect.
The image below uses the following code:
<img style=”float: left; padding-right:15px; border: 0″ src=”http://www.etdemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/auto-blog-175.jpg” alt=”Autoblog logo” />
This image is manually added to float left, no border, with “padding” set to 15 pixels to put white space on the right side of the image.
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