Tag Archives: images

Creating Free Passport, Visa & ID Photos In A Few Clicks

There is a Google Chrome app that connects you to a website that allows you to create free passport, visa and ID photos online in a few clicks. You can select your photo, upload it or crop it from any photograph, select side, save and then print it using your printer.

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Redirect All Unattached Images To Homepage In WordPress

Earlier we have discussed about finding and deleting all unattached media files like photos and videos etc in WordPress. An unattached media file is one which is uploaded but not used inside your content.

The default behavior of WordPress generates attachment pages for images uploaded in your media library. This is useful but sometimes can cause problems. Attachment pages are also created for unattached media files and have no pretty permalink structure which is not good for SEO reasons and is not useful for anyone.  Continue reading Redirect All Unattached Images To Homepage In WordPress

Automatically Add Images From ZIP File To Media Library In WordPress

Now you can upload media files like photos and videos etc directly from ZIP file to your WordPress media library and the use them inside your posts, pages and other custom post types.

The feature is great for photo blogging, portfolio websites uploading big amount of high quality images. It not only makes uploading faster but uses less amount of data, memory, resources and the very good thing is you can upload many images at once.  Continue reading Automatically Add Images From ZIP File To Media Library In WordPress

Bulk Resize Huge Media Uploads Maintaining Maximum Width For All Images In WordPress

When an image is uploaded to a WordPress site, the system automatically creates multiple image sizes, but keeps the original image (no matter how big it is). Smart bloggers upload optimized, resized and lightweight images but atleast once in a lifetime all make mistake of uploading very large image files.

When large image files are hosted and used on a website, you get massive image embeds inside your content, which can drastically slow down your website.

In this lesson you will learn about correcting this mistake by bulk resizing all images on your website. There are two good plugin you can use in your WordPress installation.

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Add All Available Image Size Options To WordPress Media Size Selection Drop Down

By default WordPress allows you to customize thumbnail. medium and large image size. In this lesson you will learn about enabling all other image size selection options on media size dropdown, which you use while inserting images inside content with ADD MEDIA button.

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Change Old Image Format Size In WordPress Posts And Custom Post Types

Now you can easily find images inside your post content and change their format size. Great tool when switching to a new WordPress theme or changing the layout of your website.

When an image is uploaded to WordPress, it generates several versions of that image in different sizes. The image is then inserted in content using ADD MEDIA button in visual editor and a custom image size format is selected.

But when you switch to new theme with different content area size, your old post images starts to look odd. Sometimes they overflow to sidebars or to other elements etc.

This happens because the images you insert in your content becomes the part of your content, they are hardcoded in posts and remains the same even when you switch to a new layout.

Hence, in result your images do not fit perfectly with the new design.

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Displaying Image Galleries From Pixabay To WordPress

Pixabay.com is a free image library that allows you to search from over 360000 free photos, illustrations, and vector graphics or share your own pictures as public domain.

Earlier we have discussed about inserting images from pixabay to WordPress posts, pages and other custom post types right from content edit screen. Now today in this lesson you learn inserting beautiful image galleries via shortcode in WordPress.

You can select in shortcodes, which images to display – filter by search term, image type or author and include multiple widgets on the same page.  Continue reading Displaying Image Galleries From Pixabay To WordPress

Auto Delete Original Image Files To Lighten Your WordPress Site Load

Earlier we have discussed about deleting large image files after their thumbnails are generated in your WordPress site. Now today in this lesson you will learn about deleting original image files uploaded and keep only their custom size file used inside your post content.

You can set this to be done automatically on upload or do it in bulk for all images in your WordPress site.

The logic is , generally bloggers upload the original image files which is sometimes huge and hence their optimized version is used in content where as the original image file is never published. Hence, there is no need to keep it on your server.  Continue reading Auto Delete Original Image Files To Lighten Your WordPress Site Load

How To Bulk Seo Optimize Images In WordPress?

Now you can easily update all the ALT attribute of images published in your WordPress blog posts. You can add article name automatically to them and improve traffic from search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing etc.

ALT attribute is important for improving website SEO, it is considered more important attribute than actual image title. It is entered manually while uploading and inserting images in WordPress post content via ‘Add Media’ button present in visual editor on ADD NEW/EDIT screens.

In general, all new bloggers and website owners leave this tag empty which leaves many images on WordPress lacking ALT attributes. In this lesson you will learn how to correct this mistake and automatically update all images with ALT attributes in your WordPress site.  Continue reading How To Bulk Seo Optimize Images In WordPress?

Easily Organize File Uploads By File Types (mov, gif, png, mp3…) Or Usernames In WordPress

By default WordPress organizes your media files in ‘uploads’ folder located in wp-content directory of your website. WordPress provides you option to organize all uploads in month and year based folders but in this lesson you will learn how to organize them in file types or username based folders.  Continue reading Easily Organize File Uploads By File Types (mov, gif, png, mp3…) Or Usernames In WordPress

Easily Upload And Insert SVG Files In WordPress Posts

SVG, stands for Scalable Vector Graphics is an XML-based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics which supports interactivity and animation.

These images and their behaviors are defined in XML text files. Default WordPress functionality allows you to upload SVG files but you cannot insert and display them like other images.

In this lesson you will learn how to upload and insert SVG files in your post content.

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Easily Attach, Unattach or Reattach Media Files And Data To Different WordPress Posts

Attaching, unattaching and reattaching media data to different WordPress posts is easy. With new Re-attacher plugin you can reattach uploaded media files to posts in your WordPress site.

Other than this, the plugin also allows you to completely detach files from posts. It also enables you to manage both single and groups of media files.

It also turns Gallery and Portfolio plugins more convenient to use because after installing Re-attacher plugin you won’t have to upload new images each time you need using them on gallery or portfolio pages. Instead, it lets you to use uploaded files.   Continue reading Easily Attach, Unattach or Reattach Media Files And Data To Different WordPress Posts

Use Custom Header Image As Your WordPress Login Logo

By default, WordPress uses its official logo on login screen pages. Earlier we have discussed about turning off all WordPress branding like login logo, admin bar logo, admin footer text and all other admin branding text, images. We have also discussed about customizing login screen page.

In this lesson you will learn how to make this process more easy by automatically resizing and turning your header image to your WordPress login screen logo.  Continue reading Use Custom Header Image As Your WordPress Login Logo

Managing Featured Images On Multiple WordPress Posts

Featured images i.e. post thumbnails can be assigned and edited from post edit screen. Earlier we have discussed about assigning default posts images in WordPress, we have also discussed about setting up default featured images for taxonomies like tags and categories.  Continue reading Managing Featured Images On Multiple WordPress Posts

Inaccessibility Checker – Check Images For ALT & Caption Before Publishing A Post In WordPress

Many times people forget to insert ALT tags and captions etc. In this lesson we will show you how you can get to know about such minor mistakes while publishing a new post.  Continue reading Inaccessibility Checker – Check Images For ALT & Caption Before Publishing A Post In WordPress

Moving Out Of WordPress Media Uploads Directory (For Easier Management & Backups)

By default WordPress stores all uploaded media library files in your website ‘s root -> wp -content -> uploads folder. Moving this (uploads) directory to some other location would make file backups and management much easier.  Continue reading Moving Out Of WordPress Media Uploads Directory (For Easier Management & Backups)

Toggle Embedded Media With Shortcode In WordPress

You can increase focus on your advertisements and text content by toggling embedded media files in your WordPress site. Toggle Media plugin allows you to add visual animation to embedded content inside posts, pages and other custom post types.  Continue reading Toggle Embedded Media With Shortcode In WordPress