Default functionality of WordPress uploads all images with their real sizes and then generates new custom sizes like a thumbnail size image, medium size image, large size image and keeps a copy of original image with its real size. Suppose your website’s maximum width is 1200px and you have a 300 px sidebar then all content space you have is 900px, now what is need of keeping images larger than 900px when you don’t have space to show them. It increases unnecessary weight on your server and also posts with large images makes your webpages slow and heavy.
By default WordPress uses some default settings like image alignment, image size and link etc whenever any image is uploaded from ‘Add Media’ button. Although, it allows users to use custom settings each time when an image is inserted inside a post or post type in WordPress but it doesn’t allows admins to change the default image settings. In this tutorial we will be showing you how you can change the default image settings sitewide in WordPress.
When images are uploaded to WordPress media library, they are saved into multiple copies of various resolutions and hence downloading them automatically saves their copies too. This tutorial is not about backing up your media library files so that you can use them during troubles and data loss (for restoring your website). That can be done by visiting your website’s public_html via FTP or file manager and then downloading the ‘Uploads’ directory present in ‘wp-contents’ folder of your website’s root. OR if you are a SANGKRIT.net hosting user then you can use easily backup your complete website from cPanel.
Flickr Pick a Picture is a WordPress plugin that lets you grab free Creative Commons licensed images from Flickr into your WordPress site. It provides you various good options like you can choose an image size auto include license link in the caption area and more. You can use the images from Flickr anywhere in your site.
There are some issues with default markup of WordPress like the dimensions are hardcoded on elements, captionless images are wrapped in a p tags, by default images, videos, avatars and featured images etc uses some width and height and are not responsive. This tutorial is about Pco Media Handler plugin that simply improves the markup of featured images, inline images and embeds, and make them all responsive to all screen sizes.
Sometime back we have discussed about bringing featured images via URL and then automatically saving them to your WordPress media library. Today in this tutorial we are discussing about a new plugin that shows featured images from external URL without saving them in your server.
Featured images, also called post thumbnails are used for representing contents like posts, pages and other custom post types etc.The featured image can be easily assigned from post edit screen (see how), these are also used by many themes and plugins for enhancing your content presentation. In this tutorial we are listing some of the best plugins you may use for extending the default thumbnails feature in WordPress.
Now WordPress provides you a very easy set of features for editing images uploaded to media library. We a have also posted a tutorial about cropping post thumbnails. This tutorial is about a similar plugin called Post Thumbnail Editor which provides WordPress users with an interface to manually fix post thumbnail and other random images.
WordPress media library allows you to upload and insert images from your computer’s hard drive. Or from your media library, the images which you have saved in media library thru ‘Add Media’ button. But by default it doesn’t allows you to use or access any images uploaded manually to your server’s hosting directory.
WordPress media library contains all images, videos, recordings and files which you have uploaded and used inside your posts, pages, post types etc. Media is typically uploaded and inserted at the time of creating/editing content and the admin media menu (Dashboard -> Media) lets to access those files in bulk, it also allows you to upload media files through Dashboard -> Media -> Add New page but that is hardly used by bloggers.
By default, all uploads and media files are accessible to all registered users on a WordPress site. This sometime creates copyright issues on multi-author websites. The reason is when any author uploads any image file, it becomes accessible for all other authors and they can easily reuse it from ‘Add Media’ button.
By default no web browser or operating system enables you to copy text printed over the images. In this tutorial we will show you how you can apply the state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image on web so that you can easily highlight, copy, edit, search or translate text printed over them.
‘Mockup’ term is generally used in manufacturing and designs, it is a scale or full-size model of a design or device, used for teaching, demonstration, promotion etc. By mocking-up images in WordPress you can display them on poular computing devices, smartphones and tablets. For Example: You can generate an image showing the mobile version of your website inside Macbook Pro, Samsung Galaxy or Nexus.
Tiled gallery is the an elegant way of displaying photo galleries in WordPress, the good thing about tiled galleries is, they automatically organizes all photos a responsive way that they appear all fixed inside your post without leaving any blank space.
Default WordPress galleries shows up images in columns, suppose you have five images assigned to three columns then it would be showing three images in first line and two in the second line leaving a blank whitespace in third column which doesn’t appears to be good. But this is not with tiled galleries. Tiled galleries automatically fixes up all images in a mosaic view that they don’t show up any blank space.
You can display multiple auto-rotating image advertisements using widgets in your WordPress site. Meks Easy Ads Widget is a lightweight, simple and easy to use WordPress widget plugin. The plugin upon activation provides you a widget for displaying unlimited number of image advertisements in custom size. You can enable auto-rotation, randomize them, set the maximum number of ads to be displayed in one view and more.
Creative Commons is a non-profit license that offers an alternative to full copyright. Images under this license are free to share, it simply allows creators to communicate what rights they reserve and what rights they waive for other people. And Public Domain images are those images whose intellectual property rights have expired, have been forfeited, or are inapplicable etc. In this article we are sharing a few good websites you can use for quickly and easily finding free images for your blog posts and other website content.
Replacing image files means you can replace attachment files simply uploading another new file in its place in media library without having to delete, rename and then re-upload files in WordPress. Enable Media Replace works as a big time saver, it enables you to replace images. Using this plugin you can would be able to replace any uploaded media file both from WordPress media library page or Add New/Edit post screens.
In WordPress featured images are used for representing contents like posts, pages, and other custom post types, etc. You can easily assign a featured image (also called post thumbnail) to posts and pages of your website, it is used by many themes and plugins for enhancing the presentation of your content.
In general, most WordPress website owners use software and online apps for resizing their high resolution images before uploading and using them inside their website content. Earlier we have discussed about WP Smush.it plugin which compresses images in WordPress in-order to improve your website’s performance without affecting the image quality. Today in this tutorial we will show you how to extend default WordPress image uploading functionality and make it auto resize your images to a size defined by you.
Vertical Tab Slider is a very attractive and easy plugin to create a simple good looking tabbed slider which auto-rotates according to defined interval of time and also enables your website visitors to rotate the images and description by manually clicking on the tabs, you can also set it to pause slides on hover (mouse over).
