Getting images into Wordpress
Having trouble getting your images to work in Wordpress? The most likely reason is that the image you’re uploading is just too big. You’re not necessarily doing anything wrong, you’re just encountering a limitation/design feature of the blogging software.
I’ve seen this with several people using Wordpress. Once you resize the photo to something like 500 or 600 pixels wide (and whatever height proportionally) then you can upload the photo successfully. I have two suggestions for resizing images–both are pretty easy…
- Use http://picnik.com to resize your photo before uploading
- Install a tiny Microsoft utility to resize your photos.
The first one, Picnik, is a slick website that lets you do basic stuff to a photo. I’ve used it a lot recently and really like it. You just have to register (like every other site on the web) before you can use it. It’s very well designed and pretty self-explanatory.
The second option, the one I generally use for quick and dirty resizing, is the Microsoft Image Resizer utility. Go here and download and install it:
Once it’s installed, you just right-click on an image on your computer, choose “Resize Pictures” from the context menu. By default, it creates a copy of your image with the new, smaller size, and then you upload this new image to Wordpress.
Wordpress has good documentation…
- This article describes the most likely reasons you cannot upload an image.
- This article describes how to optimize your images for the web, so they load faster for your viewers.
- This article describes the 6 ways you can display in image in your posts. I think a lot of people are confused by these options. Scroll two-thirds of the way down and read this.
I hope this helps. And start posting lots of pictures!
April 17th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Is this aimed at me by any chance? Given that I’ve ALWAYS had to e-mail you for help with uploading photos? Odd that you posted this…I wanted to put a pic into a post and remember the last time I asked for your help, we did a custom resize. I wrote the numbers down and, surprise, surprise….can’t fine them :) Such an eejit I am!!
April 17th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Thanks for the tips! I haven’t tried to post any pics since I moved to WP but I have some I would like to post!
April 17th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Hahah Kellie rest assured this one is for me, I am clueless as many times as I have tried posting pics, so pleaded for Kurt’s help!!
THANK you Kurt, I printed the info, downloaded the sites etc so let’s hope this fried ol brain of mine can do this. Or haha I can use my other camera, as those I don’t have problems with uploading to mama’s update each week. When I did with my new camera alot didn’t get the update, I switched cameras for that and yep aok now. Decision, decision on what camera to use hahaha.
K I am so going to get pictures on my blog now, I have a PRO helping me, THANK YOU!!!
April 20th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Cool. I totally missed this post and now I’m happy to have read it. I’ve got movies down but I’m not altogether happy with my images. Mostly because I can never get them to be where I want them.
Thanks for the helpful tips!!