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WordPress Fun #2 – Images Worth 1000 Words

September 20, 2011 by Jeff Davidson 2 Comments

The best thing you can do to your blog post is to add at least one image related to your topic. Of course a couple more couldnt hurt, just dont over do it. Make sure your images flow with your topic in size and subject mater. WordPress makes it so easy to add photos to your blog post. When you are in your blog post writing away you just click the little picture icon.

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Next you will get a pop up window with all the goodies. first you just click select files and browse to your image and click ok. After that the fun begins an here are a couple things to remember when setting up your image. First is the title and alternative text, dont just leave what wordpress puts in there (typically the image name). Search engines pick up on this text so be descriptive to the image and include keywords. I typically make both these fields the same. Caption I only use if it benefits the article, this is not always the case, and description I typically leave blank. The next biggie here (at least for me) is the link URL. It will default to the image location. Personally I dont want visitors to click to my image (ceppt on some occasions like below where I’ll allow them to view a larger version). So I will remove all of the link except the root home page, that way if they click on it they still remain on my page and I have some internal links as well. When done with that choose your alignment and size (more on that later), insert into post and your done right? Well in my book not really.

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You see after all that if you look at your post (and I see a lot of this out there) all your text is crammed up all in your images space, dosent look very nice. Well you can easily fix that (I hope someday wordpress will put it into the insert image menu). Just go back to your image and click on it, you will see another picture insert square and a red circle appear in the upper right of the image, click the picture. you will get another dialog box where I want you to click on ‘Advanced Settings’. Should look like the image below now. See the two boxes I have highlighted well this will give you pixel space around your images and give them room to breath, I typically put in 5-10 in each box. Oh and to the left of those is the border box. If you are not using image caption you can put a number here to give your image a border (1 will work)

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Image Hint #1: you should pre-size your images to the size and dimensions you wish it to be in your post. If you load up your full size image to the post and then use wordpress to ‘size’ it to fit, your visitors browsers are still trying to download the original large image then resize. Causing slow load speeds! So always crop to the size you wish and then make sure the resolution is at 72dpi (max a monitor can show, all else is wasted and slows download times). There is a plugin for wordpress called WP Smush it that is supposed to help with the squishing of image file sizes. Seems to do ok, but the more you do before you load the image the better.
Image Hint #2: To improve SEO for your post and site name/rename your image using your keywords describing your post. Especially if you are getting your images from a stock account, dont just leave the default name there. Like for my smoothie sites I may have an image of a peach. The default image name from the stock site may be ‘dreamstime001.jpg’ so I would rename it to ‘peach_smoothie.jpg’. These names are searchable in the search engines and will help you rank. Funny thing is one of my top search terms for this site is now ‘RSS icon’ after my post on RSS feeds 🙂

Do you make a point to put at least one image in your post?

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  1. Jen @ Master the Art of Saving says

    September 20, 2011 at 11:12 pm

    I usually try to throw in at least one photo but if I can’t find/think of anything I won’t. I never really paid too much attention to the title & alt. text but now that I know they’re important I’ll try to remember to change them. Thanks. 🙂
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  2. Evan says

    September 26, 2011 at 5:55 pm

    Wow! Those are 2 really good tips. I don’t always use a photo but when I do I don’t do either lol.
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