One of the great things about blogging is the creative expression it allows, but if you’re spending a lot of time figuring out how to add image in WordPress… this is the shortcut!
I’ve been blogging for around ten years now, and this is by far the fastest way I found to discovering images for a blog post and adding them to the post.
You don’t need to be a techy to add image to WordPress posts, in fact the tools I’m going to share with you today are nice and easy.
How to Add Image in WordPress Video
Resources for my shortcut to add image in WordPress
Here are the resources I mentioned in the video, to help you really apply this simple add image in WordPress shortcut.
- If you’re on a Mac you can add an image in WordPress using the free tool Skitch. You’ll need to input your FTP information to have the photos you capture uploaded to your web server.
- If you’re on a PC you’ll want to use Jing to add images to your blog posts.
- The Flickr creative commons search page can be found here. Make sure to give credit by linking back to the author of the photo.
- Tip: make sure you’re in the HTML mode in WordPress when you copy and paste your image code.
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Two methods not mentioned, one being similar to the open source greenshot are as follows: http://digitalmemo.neobie.net/grab-save/ Grab & Save is a wordpress plugin that allows you to have your webserver directly download an image when you input a URL, saving the trouble of downloading the image to your computer and then uploading it again via FTP or otherwise. Zscreen is an open source screen-grab program for windows that allows custom ftp servers and automatic uploading to services such as imageshack, highly recommended, you can even crop-shot as in Jing or Skitch
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