Now that you know how to optimize images for a professional services website, it’s time to show you how to insert images into your pages. Let’s go to Settings and Media. We have not set these media settings to match our website yet but it doesn't matter at the moment. We just need to upload
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How to Optimize Images for Use on your Site
March 6, 2017Now that we’ve talked about how images are used in WordPress, we have to talk about how to optimize images for a small business, professional services website. You don't just want to take a picture from your camera and stick it on your website. Optimization applies not just to your own pictures but to images
Using the Media Library to Edit Images
February 11, 2017Now that you have seen how the WordPress 4.7 media settings work and how to insert images into pages I want to show so how to use the editing tools. That way you can edit images to be just right for your site. Let’s start with the image we just worked with. You can come
Inserting Images into your Pages
February 11, 2017I want to start off the conversation about adding media to your WordPress 4.7 website by showing how to insert images into your pages. But before we get to that I’m going to briefly talk about WordPress media settings. WordPress automatically takes an image that you upload and makes a number of copies of it.
How to Have Parallax Sections in Thesis 2.1
January 16, 2015In this session we discuss how to have parallax sections in Thesis 2.1 and assembling groups of parallax boxes. We also introduce the new course, Professional Thesis 2.1 Skin Development, that is currently being taught which includes how to use these boxes in different skins. How to Have Parallax Sections in Thesis 2.1 Member: I've
Everything You Wanted to Know about the WordPress Media Library – Part 8 – Add Image Galleries to a Page in WordPress
May 25, 2014The next thing we're going to talk about in this WordPress 3.9 Media Library seminar is how to add image galleries to a Page. Let’s start by creating a new page for this. So, Pages, Add New and this is going to be Gallery and then I'm going to add some text, "Photos from our
Everything You Wanted to Know about the WordPress Media Library – Part 7 – Editing Images in the Media Library
May 25, 2014The next thing we're going to do in this WordPress 3.9 Media Library seminar is edit images in the media library. I’m here in the media library and I'm going to select edit here for this image. Now we’re in the image and by edit what I mean is click down here below the image
Everything You Wanted to Know about the WordPress Media Library – Part 6 – Preparing Images for the Web
May 25, 2014Next in this WordPress 3.9 Media Library series we're going to talk about preparing images for the web in terms of what you should know. I'm not actually going to demonstrate how to prepare images for the web because we have a seminar, A Beginners Guide to Optimizing Images for the Web, that shows how
Everything You Wanted to Know about the WordPress Media Library – Part 5 – Images and SEO in WordPress
May 25, 2014Something that we have not talked about in this WordPress 3.9 Media Library series is the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) aspects of images. I think this is absolutely critical to using images in your website. In past discussions about SEO and images, I’ve always included the title as part of it but for some reason
Everything You Wanted to Know about the WordPress Media Library – Part 3 – Creating Custom Image Sizes in WordPress
May 25, 2014Now that you understand WordPress I 3.9mage Sizes, the next thing we're going to do is to create a custom image size and then I’ll show you ways to use it. First, we'll go to our Plugins and Add New. The plugin we’re adding is called Simple Image Sizes. So search the plugins and it's
Everything You Wanted to Know about the WordPress Media Library – Part 2 – Understanding Images Size in WordPress
May 23, 2014Now that we’ve seen how to insert an image into a WordPress 3.9 page, I want to talk about image sizes. Many people who have used WordPress do not know that WordPress automatically creates a bunch of images at different sizes for that same image. You’ll want to listen carefully right now so that you
Everything You Wanted to Know about the WordPress Media Library – Part 1 – Adding Images to a Post or a Page in WordPress
May 23, 2014Good morning everybody and welcome to this special seminar entitled "Everything You Want to Know About the WordPress Media Library But Were Afraid to Ask". Today we're going to talk about the new WordPress 3.9 media library. WordPress 3.9 has introduced a whole bunch of new functions, improvements and changes to the media library and
Everything You Wanted to Know about the WordPress Media Library (but were afraid to ask)
May 23, 2014WordPress 3.9 introduced a number of changes in the Media Library. In this seminar you'll learn everything you need to know about how to use the Media Library effectively and you'll learn all about its new features as well. You will come away with an understanding of how to add and manipulate images, videos and audio for your WordPress website.
WordPress 3.9 Crash Course – Part 14 – Inserting Images into your Pages
May 13, 2014Next in this WordPress 3.9 Crash Course, we're going to talk about inserting images into your pages. WordPress has a very powerful media library that you should use for inserting all different types of media whether it's images or audio or PDF files. I should point out that it only works for very short video
Troubleshooting Image Alignment in WordPress
April 15, 2014In this session we troubleshoot image alignment in WordPress by setting all images to align none to automatically align them to the left. Member: I had a question for you. On my site, all my images are not lining up for me. They seem to line up better on Firefox and when I try to
How to Create a Row of Images and Make it Responsive in WordPress
November 25, 2013In this session we demonstrate how to create a row of images and make it responsive in WordPress using custom CSS. We wrap the images in a div tag to make them align left with the text and discuss the difference between inline block, display inline and display block base. For more information also see
How to Add Frame Around an Image Using CSS
November 22, 2013In this session we show how to add a frame around an image using CSS. We inspect the code and find the correct selector to use so that every image in the sidebar gets the new style. And then write out the code. Video Transcript: Member: What do I do now? Rick: Well so what
Introduction to HTML for WordPress & Genesis 2 Users – Part 8 – Using Images in HTML
October 31, 2013Next in this Introduction to HTML for WordPress and Genesis 2 we’re going to talk about using images. You're already familiar with inserting images in HTML and images are a very important part of what you’ll be learning here. I'm going to place an image in here at the beginning of this text. We'll just
Introduction to HTML for WordPress & Thesis 2.1 Users – Part 8 – Using Images in HTML
October 24, 2013So we’ve discussed using lists and links in WordPress and with that done we're going to start talking about images in HTML. Images in HTML are also HTML elements. Whether you're in your visual view or your HTML view, you can place your cursor where you want to put the image and click Add Media.
Lesson 2 – Part 7 – Understanding Images in WP eStore
July 24, 2013So we've created categorized products in the Genesis theme and while we're here reviewing display options for WP eStore, I want to show you one other type. That is display product 13. Let’s put in style 13 here and hit Update. Notice how the image has been distorted? That brings me to this conversation about