publishing pictures on your blog

Just trying out the image upload feature in WordPress admin panel. To upload an image you need to first allow image uploads in options > miscellaneous. Then you´ll see a new button ( Upload ) in the main menu. Now you are able to browse your local drive, select a picture and upload it. You can also define an alternative text right away and have WordPress to create a thumbnail of the image. Click “upload” and once the file is uploaded Wordpress will give you the HTML code you can paste directly inside your next post.

Here´s a picture of my daughter climbing a wall.

I´m sure there´s a plugin that facilitates the inclusion of images. Gonna search for one and try it out. Then I´ll include it in the WordPress video tutorial I´m currently working on.

BTW - if you get an error when trying to upload an image, make sure the file permissions of the directory “wp-content” ( the default directory for file uploads ) are set to 766.

And one more thing: when you save your post before publishing it to take a look at the review, you won´t see the image. It´s because Wordpress gave you a relative URL to the image file which works correctly from your blog´s index page and other pages, but while you are logged in to your admin panel, you are in a different directory. If you want to see the image in the preview, add ” .. ” before /wp-content/ in the image URL but remove it before you publish your post.

Sorry - just stumbled across another error:

of course, if you are using permanent links for your blogposts, then you need to use the absolute URL to your image file. If you are using only the relative URL “/wp-content/image.jpg” , you´ll see your image on your blog´s index page but not on the permanent link page. The absolute URL of your image file would be something like ” http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/wp-content/image.jpg “.