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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I love how easy it seems to use Skitch!
2 questions:
1. Does the Free version of Skitch do what you’re talking about with uploading it straight to the blog via the share button?
2. Where do I find the FTP for my WordPress blog?
I love how easy it seems to use Skitch!
2 questions:
1. Does the Free version of Skitch do what you’re talking about with uploading it straight to the blog via the share button?
2. Where do I find the FTP for my WordPress blog?
@monagrayson Hey Mona! It’s so easy, and you do need to set it up but here are the answers to your questions.
1. Yes the free version of Skitch uploads straight to the blog via share button.
2. FTP for your site can be found in your hosting account, so that might be godaddy, bluehost, hostgator, etc. Ask the person who set up your site if you don’t have it. It will look like http://ftp.yourdomain.com and a username + password. :)
@monagrayson Hey Mona! It’s so easy, and you do need to set it up but here are the answers to your questions.
1. Yes the free version of Skitch uploads straight to the blog via share button.
2. FTP for your site can be found in your hosting account, so that might be godaddy, bluehost, hostgator, etc. Ask the person who set up your site if you don’t have it. It will look like http://ftp.yourdomain.com and a username + password. :)
Thanks, girl! Totally gonna look into that. xoxo @NathLussier
Thanks, girl! Totally gonna look into that. xoxo @NathLussier
Nathalie, your videos are SOOO helpful! So going to try out Skitch!! xoxo
Nathalie, your videos are SOOO helpful! So going to try out Skitch!! xoxo
@LizLongacre Yay Liz! You’re going to love it, it’s a total time saver. :)
@LizLongacre Yay Liz! You’re going to love it, it’s a total time saver. :)
Hey Nath, great video and very useful!
I love seeing your little dance there :)
Tania
Hey Nath, great video and very useful!
I love seeing your little dance there :)
Tania
Hi, Nathalie
This is so, so useful! I’d been wracking my brain on how to upload photos from Flickr without too much headache, and now I see how simple it can be. Huge thanks!
So, I’ve downloaded Skitch, grabbed some images from Flickr Creative Commons, and now I’m ready to integrate them into my blog..
But I can’t figure out how to integrate my FTP with Skitch. What am I missing?
Thanks again for such a useful, much needed tutorial.
Cheers,
Nanci
Hi, Nathalie
This is so, so useful! I’d been wracking my brain on how to upload photos from Flickr without too much headache, and now I see how simple it can be. Huge thanks!
So, I’ve downloaded Skitch, grabbed some images from Flickr Creative Commons, and now I’m ready to integrate them into my blog..
But I can’t figure out how to integrate my FTP with Skitch. What am I missing?
Thanks again for such a useful, much needed tutorial.
Cheers,
Nanci
Great post Nathalie! xo, Tina
Great post Nathalie! xo, Tina
@TaniaLanin Thanks Tania! :)
@TaniaLanin Thanks Tania! :)
@NPanuccio Hi Nanci! Okay, to set up your FTP info – click the little arrow beside the “Share” button, and scroll down to “Open Share Settings”. By default there will be a skitch account, click the little “+” sign in the bottom left corner to add your own ftp account in there. :)
@NPanuccio Hi Nanci! Okay, to set up your FTP info – click the little arrow beside the “Share” button, and scroll down to “Open Share Settings”. By default there will be a skitch account, click the little “+” sign in the bottom left corner to add your own ftp account in there. :)
@TinaPruittCampbell Thank you Tina! :)
@TinaPruittCampbell Thank you Tina! :)
Thanks, Nathalie! :)
Thanks, Nathalie! :)
This was so helpful thank you Nathalie!
Can I ask you please what you recommend using in terms of software to schedule and post twitter and facebook updates in advance?
Thank you!
This was so helpful thank you Nathalie!
Can I ask you please what you recommend using in terms of software to schedule and post twitter and facebook updates in advance?
Thank you!
@CaseyThomas I like Hootsuite for that. :) And maybe that’ll be another week’s video.. ;)
@CaseyThomas I like Hootsuite for that. :) And maybe that’ll be another week’s video.. ;)
Brilliant! Thanks so much Nathalie!
Brilliant! Thanks so much Nathalie!
@anndocmac Yay you’re so welcome Ann, glad it was helpful! :)
@anndocmac Yay you’re so welcome Ann, glad it was helpful! :)
Great article which got me searching further. Since I’m on a PC and don’t like the forced registration that Jing seems to have. So I actually found the open source software Greenshot that allows capturing of a certain part of the screen plus some basic editing features aswell, the thing it seems to lack is the online sharing though or upload to your own FTP-server. Only just installed it and tried the basics, but so far so good: http://getgreenshot.org/
Great article which got me searching further. Since I’m on a PC and don’t like the forced registration that Jing seems to have. So I actually found the open source software Greenshot that allows capturing of a certain part of the screen plus some basic editing features aswell, the thing it seems to lack is the online sharing though or upload to your own FTP-server. Only just installed it and tried the basics, but so far so good: http://getgreenshot.org/
@ErikRudling Hey Erik thanks so much for letting everyone know about this open source option! :) I’m all for options, woo.
@ErikRudling Hey Erik thanks so much for letting everyone know about this open source option! :) I’m all for options, woo.
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
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
@MattieTK Very cool Mattie thanks for sharing that with us! :)
@MattieTK Very cool Mattie thanks for sharing that with us! :)
@MattieTK Wow, Zscreen was really cool, freehand crop and all. I retract my Greenshot recommendation and +1 this. :) It’s available here: http://code.google.com/p/zscreen/ . If you want it to behave more like Greenshot with the editing right after you captured your image (what I wanted), follow these instructions: http://code.google.com/p/zscreen/wiki/CaptureOCR except you choose image annotator instead of OCR.
@MattieTK Wow, Zscreen was really cool, freehand crop and all. I retract my Greenshot recommendation and +1 this. :) It’s available here: http://code.google.com/p/zscreen/ . If you want it to behave more like Greenshot with the editing right after you captured your image (what I wanted), follow these instructions: http://code.google.com/p/zscreen/wiki/CaptureOCR except you choose image annotator instead of OCR.
Natalie, that was so fast that I couldn't catch some of the details. Please try to slow down on some of your videos… I had to replay parts several times. Thanks for all the support!
That is a really interesting site.