Adding Images to Pages or Posts

As well as adding a featured image, you can add smaller images into your pages or posts to supplement the text, or a large image that you can use to display your information.

Having small images with text may be better, as it will be easier to edit if anything changes or becomes outdated.

To add images, ensure the cursor is in the Content area, where you would like your image to appear, and click the Add Media button on the left (between the Title and Content areas).

Your Media Library will display, and show current images that have already been uploaded, and the option to upload images, or use an image from another website.

Please be aware that images already on the internet may be copyrighted, and should not be used on your page or post, without prior approval from the owner.

Click the image you wish to display on your page or post, select a size and where the image will link to (if you want the image to be a link), and click Insert into post or Insert into Page.



Quick description of each attribute you can set is as follows:

• Title
  • What people see when they hover their cursor over the image.
• Caption
  • Will be shown under the image
• Alt Text
  • This is shown on the page instead of the images, if the image does not load, including if images are disabled by the visitor to your site, and for mobile devices that cannot show images on the net.
  • This text will also be copied if someone copies the image and tries to paste into a plain text editor, such as Notepad.
• Description
  • Not necessarily shown or seen by the visitor directly
• Alignment
  • Display the image towards the left, right, or centre of your content.
  • None will default to Left Aligned.
• Link To
  • Determine what will happen when the image is clicked
    • Media File will open the full sized image
    • Attachment page will open a page similar to your post, which will show information such as description.
    • Custom URL will open whichever website page you type into the box.
    • None will ensure the image is not clickable
  • No one will usually see the Attachment Page, unless you supply a link for it.
• Size
  • Choose a size for your image.
    • Small-Medium is useful for a gallery page or thumbnail
    • Medium-Large is useful for featured images within your page or post.
    • Large-Full Size is useful for banners or images that are meant to take up the whole page

You can select multiple images to insert at once, by holding down CTRL (or Command on a Mac) when clicking on the images.

To deselect images, either hold CTRL and click on the image again, or click on the tick in the top right corner. The tick will turn into a minus sign when the cursor has moved over it.

Please note that each of the images will need to have the above settings set separately.
While multiple images are selected, click on the one you want to adjust the settings for, so that it is highlighted, then adjust the settings.

Once Insert has been clicked, the Media Library will close, and the images you have selected will appear on the page where the cursor was originally.

Remember to set a Featured Image if you want one to show as a thumbnail when viewing a list of pages or posts.