Four Ways To Add Photos To A WordPress Post

Adding photos to your blog posts is a powerful way to keep readers engaged. But uploading them through the media uploader is only one way to add photos to a post (also see video below).

Four Ways To Add Photos To A WordPress Post

1. Upload From Your Computer

Uploading photos from your computer is a very easy way to add images to a post. WordPress automatically stores these images in your media library for future use. The downside of this approach is the bandwidth tax of having too many images (depends on host).

2. Reuse Images From Your Media Library

Reusing images from your media library saves on storage space. This is a reasonable approach for posts where logos, events or people are referred to time after time.

3. Add An Image Via URL

There are over 135,000 free images on Flickr Creative Commons that you can use in exchange for attribution. This allows the creator to get more exposure for their artwork, and allows you to get free images for your blog post. Adding images via the image path also negates any storage impact on your hosting account.

4. Add An Image Via Plugin

One of my favorite plugins is the WP-Flickr plugin because it allows you to add images quickly and easily from your own Flickr account.

Four Ways To Add Photos To Your Post

This video shows you how to use all four approaches.