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<h4>WordPress</h4>  
<h4>WordPress</h4>  
Images can be added through uploading or inserted from a URL.
Images can be added through uploading or inserted from a URL, manually typed in via the source editor text box by using WordPress' markup language, and HTML.
 
On the left side of the control panel, click Media.  Under Media click Add New.  Drag & Drop one or more images from your computer to inside the dashed box.  Or click the “Select Files” button in the center of the dashed box.  Note that below the dashed box is a notification of “Maximum upload file size”.


<h6>Uploading</h6>
<ul>'''Multiple Files'''
<li>On the left side of the control panel, click Media.  </li>
<li>Under Media click Add New.  </li>
<li>Drag & Drop one or more images from your computer to inside the dashed box, or click the “Select Files” button in the center of the dashed box.  Note that below the dashed box is a notification of “Maximum upload file size”.</li>
</ul>
[[File:Wordpress-3.7.1-upload-multiple-files.png|394x218px]]
[[File:Wordpress-3.7.1-upload-multiple-files.png|394x218px]]


If the multi-file uploader is unavailable or exhibiting problems, click the browser uploader link under the dashed box.  Then click the Browse... button, select your file from your computer, and then click Upload.  Note the “Maximum upload file size”.
<h6>Uploading - Browser Uploader</h6>
 
<ul>If the multi-file uploader is unavailable or exhibiting problems:
<li>Click the browser uploader link under the dashed box.  </li>
<li>Click the Browse... button, select your file from your computer, and then click Upload.  Note the “Maximum upload file size”.</li>
</ul>
[[File:Wordpress-3.7.1-upload-new-media.png|348x225px]]
[[File:Wordpress-3.7.1-upload-new-media.png|348x225px]]


You may add images while you are creating a new post.  Click the “Add Media” button above the left top of the text box.  You may upload files using the preceding methods or you may Insert from URL. To “Insert from URL” click the Insert from URL link on the left.  Type or paste the image's URL into the top box.  Enter a caption under the image, and then the Alt. Text.  Choose your alignment, then choose what happens when the image is clicked:
Go to the original image, go to a custom URL, or nothing.  If you click custom URL, type or paste the custom URL into the box provided below it.  Lastly, click the “Insert into Post” button at bottom right.


You may add images while you are creating a new post. Click the “Add Media” button above the left top of the text box.  You may upload files using the preceding methods or you may '''Insert from URL'''.
<ul>To “Insert from URL”:
<li>Click the Insert from URL link on the left. </li>
<li>Type or paste the image's URL into the top box.  </li>
<li>Enter a caption under the image, and then the "Alt. Text".  </li>
<li>Choose your alignment, then choose what happens when the image is clicked: Go to the original image, go to a custom URL, or nothing.  If you click custom URL, type or paste the custom URL into the box provided below it.  </li>
<li>Lastly, click the “Insert into Post” button at bottom right. </li>
</ul>
[[File:Insert_from_URL_-_WordPress.png|400x154px]]
[[File:Insert_from_URL_-_WordPress.png|400x154px]]
Note that you are able to manually add images via URL directly into the text box by using WordPress' markup language and HTML.


==When to use images==
==When to use images==
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