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Once you’ve selected your options, you press the Insert into Post button to add the
image to where your cursor was when you chose to Add Images. In this example
we’ve gone for a thumbnail to the right, with a caption.
In the editor it now looks like this:
And on the website, it looks like:
It’s worth noting that deleting a captioned image from the post can appear a little
tricky at times – but it’s not so bad. First select the image by clicking on it, press the
delete button, and you still have the caption. Now select and delete all the caption
text and, after you delete the last character, the box will disappear completely.
After uploading, if you forgot to add images to a post you can still press the Add
Images button and then click on the Gallery tab. In there you can see all images
attached to this post, and insert them individually.
Next we want to experiment with a couple of other features, so press Edit to edit this
post and let’s do some more: Click on the Add video button Now, you can upload a
file, but if your site isn’t set up with a suitable player, it’ll just create a link to the file or
page which your user can visit. This is OK, but not amazing. There are plugins to
help this along, but that’s for you or your systems administrator to arrange.
The same applies to the Add Audio Button, and add Media. In essence, they allow
you to upload files, but mostly leave you just on links unless you use suitable
plugins.
4.4 Adding a gallery of images
One new feature that came with WordPress 2.5 was galleries – this allows you to
present a grid of image thumbnails in a post or page which people can click on to
enlarge.
To insert a gallery into a post, you can upload a number of images (which are then
attached to this post) and, then click on the Gallery tab:
From here, you can adjust the order by dragging and dropping, insert the individual
images into the post or insert a gallery of attached images.
To insert a gallery, click on the ‘Insert gallery into post’ image and then a shortcode
of [gallery] will be inserted into your content. Now, one thing you’ll notice – if you’ve
been using the Post we created before, is that the output will be a mess. The Gallery
function doesn’t like to share space with an image – it must be clearly after any other
images or problems will occur . A right mess, we think you’ll agree. So instead,
delete the image in there, and go take a look and you’ll see it’s much improved.
However – it’s still not perfect – the images are actually slightly too large. This is
because this theme is designed for narrower content. You can fix this by selecting a
smaller thumbnail size in Settings, Miscellaneous, or using a wider theme .