Adding Images to WordPress

You can upload images to include on you page/post by going to the upload section.

Before we do that we need to talk about image sizes as if you don't understand them then your images may be distorted or in worst cases then will affect the blog layout.

Every image/picture has a size measured in pixels. So an image might be 400 pixels wide300 pixels high (400*300).

The image is placed on the web page using the image tag. This tag also allows you to specify the image size on the page, or instead you can leave it, in which case the natural picture size is used.

This means that if the natural picture size is 400*300 pixels and you use the size attributes of the image tag to change the size to 200*150 then that is the size it will be on the page.

When you do that the image may appear distorted depending on how far the natural size and the specified size differ. If you want a much small image then it is better to create an image thumbnail.

Before adding the images you should be aware of how the image sizes and web page structure are related which is covered in the video below:

Now its time the add the images

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