Using WordPress photos is a great way to spice up the look of your WordPress blog. Many bloggers will use photos on their WordPress website as a way to illustrate their blog post or will use photos to feature images of products or services they are selling on the site.
You’ve probably heard the saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. This couldn’t be truer when it comes to designing your WordPress blog. By using WordPress photos on your site, you are guaranteed to strike more of an interest in your readers. Having photos plays an important role in making your blog more user friendly as well as appealing for your web visitors. Adding photos to your WordPress blog is easy because you can do so in a variety of ways depending on the usage of your WordPress blog, and your overall objective. For some, the WordPress blog is used as a simple way to share blog entries with friends, family and other visitors. However, some use their WordPress blog to make money, and as a result rely on photo usage to demonstrate their products and services to potential customers.
WordPress photos sources:
There are a variety of places where users can find plugins, widgets, themes and more to help them easily and quickly post their photos to WordPress. WordPress also makes it easy if you want to take the easiest route and just insert a photo into your WordPress blog. Using the Quicktag buttons from WordPress, you can feature ylur image in an image link, which makes it easy to link those photos directly into your blog post as you write it. If users employ the use of the inline upload feature, the picture is then found in the /wp-content/uploads folder unless the blogger has specified to find it under another folder. Also within WordPress, users can now resize images as well as make thumbnails. There are easy ways to put together photo galleries as well that can show off images without having to add each one separately to the page. For photographers, artists and others who want the photos to do just about all the talking, there is always the option to create a PhotoBlog or Gallery.
By using these tools, images can be used in a variety of methods throughout your WordPress posts including to be used as the primary subject or just a referenced detail that enhances your blog post. When choosing which tool to use or how to go about putting WordPress photos into your blog, be sure to decide on the overall look of your blog. If you plan to use your blog as a PhotoBlog, you know you will want to use photos over words in the majority, if not all, of your posts. You will also be able to learn how to wrap text around the images by referencing the WordPress website.
Other WordPress photo tools:
Using template tags and plugins, you can easily add images to your WordPress site in the style sheet of your theme. This allows you to incorporate pictures into your WordPress design and layout, into lists and menus as well as categories, template tags, graphic symbols, header, headings and sidebars. There are other tools like Flickr that you can use to enhance the photo usage on your website. To determine which photo sharing tool you’d like to use, it is best to know what overall look you are going for with your WordPress blog. You can also use slideshow options as a sidebar or header on your site. If you are constantly promoting new products, this is a great way to showcase those products to new and existing customers. Customers are not likely to purchase a product if they have not seen a good photo of it first to show them exactly what they are buying. To get started in using photos on your site, be sure to decide on the overall look you want to accomplish with your blog to determine which tools will work best with your blogging needs.