Comments on: WordPress – Uploading An Image

By: Positioning Images in WordPress | Sephy's Platzish

Positioning Images in WordPress | Sephy's Platzish — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:11:48 +0000

[...] page. It’s a very straightforward thing to do, but if you need a refresher, Snoskred has an excellent guide on how to do [...]

By: How-to Increase the Size of your WordPress Thumbnails | Sephy's Platzish

How-to Increase the Size of your WordPress Thumbnails | Sephy's Platzish — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:18:07 +0000

[...] Snoskred had a post about how to upload an image to your WordPress blog, and in it I made a comment about that the small size of the thumbnails was [...]

By: Lightening

Lightening — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:47:27 +0000

Thanks for the link to Sephy’s post. That was helpful too!

By: Snoskred

Snoskred — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:33:29 +0000

Cerebralmum – check your mail, the fix is in your inbox.

Lin – your content area is 500 pixels across, so I would recommend you keep your pics at 490 maximum across if you’re posting a full size pic. Where you find that information is in the CSS style sheet, which might be a bit complex for you at this stage but once you’ve been playing with wordpress for a bit you’ll be ready to learn all about CSS

I’ll try out that larger thumbnail code and if it works I’ll let you guys know.

Cheers,
Snoskred

By: Lin

Lin — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:30:55 +0000

This is very timely information Snoskred. I’ve been wondering myself about how to upload images to make sure they don’t throw out my sidebars. As you know some of the images I have/had hosted on Blogger were huge and messed up the coding there. Where do I find the information telling me what width range to stay under so my sidebars aren’t affected? I love the thumbnail size, and I may just have to edit several post images on previous posts moved from Blogger to the thumbnail size. Looks much better that way.

By: cerebralmum

cerebralmum — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:29:27 +0000

I haven’t actually been able to get my upload section to work. I’ve just been compressing and the Ftp-ing them. I’ve chmoded the folders (tried default folder, other folders) using my ftp program but doesn’t seem to help. Any ideas?

By: Snoskred

Snoskred — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:58:01 +0000

Sephy put together a post on how to resize images – thanks Sephy!

Image Resizing Made Simple

Cheers,
Snoskred

By: Lightening

Lightening — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:06:50 +0000

Thanks Snoskred. I LOVE your category (training wheels). Thinkin’ I might need “L” plates on my blog at the moment. LOL. Or maybe I might scrape into a “P” plater category now that I’m doing some stuff on my own.

Now, my uploading thingamy doodah only gives me the thumbnail option on *some* images. Like the ones that are smaller already!!!! Grrrrr……… So, I’m figuring the obvious thing would be to resize my photo’s on my computer first (since my problem yesterday was the jolly photo took up my whole PAGE!!! LOL). Which would be a great solution if I could REMEMBER where I found the rezise function somewhere on the computer……. I find things by accident and then can’t remember where they were! *sigh*

So, is there somewhere online that I can easily resize my photo’s for this purpose? Or am I missing something really obvious here????? I have Adobe Photoshop Starter Edition and Picture Package already on my computer (and apparently Picasa so I’ve found) if that’s any help to help anyone help me (if you can make sense of all the helps).

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:10:29 +0000

Hi,

Aside from what Meg said, if you set it to link to page or file you can also go in an alter the outward link to whatever site you want by going into your code section.

Might prove handy if you have a banner/image to another blog etc that you want to make clickable.

At least that’s one way I do it

By: Meg

Meg — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:50:39 +0000

Hi Snoskred

If you chose “link to none” then the image is unclickable, but you still get the “alt” tag.

If you chose “link to page”, then it’s saved as an attachment and given it’s own “page” (i.e. it will appear like a page on your blog, with your header & sidebar etc). It looks the same on your post, but if you click on it you don’t just get a blank page with the image, as you do with “link to file”.

My problem is that if I link to file, my style sheet treats it has a hyperlink, so it puts a dotted line under the image. I’m sure I could fix that somewhere. So I’ve been opting to “link to none” for the most part.

I’ve never bothered with a description. I wonder if there’s any SEO benefit, as there is with the title (aka ALT tag)?