Managing images in WordPress isn’t always straightforward. Without the right tools or techniques, fixing image-related issues can be frustrating and time-consuming.
While images are key to making your WordPress site engaging and visually appealing, issues can still arise. We’ve heard from plenty of users who suspect that their images are affecting site loading times, display quality, or sizing.
These problems can negatively impact your site’s performance and user experience.
At WPBeginner, we’ve been using WordPress for over 16+ years, consistently uploading images to enhance our content and boost engagement. During this time, we’ve learned the best ways to handle these issues efficiently.
In this guide, we’ll show you how to fix common image issues in WordPress, helping you improve your site’s speed, appearance, and overall performance.
Since this is a detailed article, here is the list of image-related issues that we will cover in this article. You can use these quick links to skip to a certain topic:
- How to Upload Images in WordPress
- How to Align an Image to the Left or Right in WordPress
- How to Add Captions Below Images
- How to Display Photos in Columns and Rows
- How to Create Responsive Image Galleries in WordPress
- How to Fix Missing Post Thumbnails / Featured Image
- How to Add Cover Images in WordPress Posts and Pages
- How to Fix the Featured Image Appearing Twice Issue
- How to Crop Images in WordPress
- How to Add a Header Image in WordPress
- How to Add a Background Image in WordPress
- How to Optimize Images for WordPress Without Losing Their Quality
- How to Add Title Attributes to WordPress Images
- How to Find Free Images for Your WordPress Blog Posts
- How to Categorize and Tag Images in WordPress
- How to Import External Images in WordPress
- How to Require Featured Images for Posts in WordPress
- How to Set a Default Featured Image in WordPress
- How to Create Additional Image Sizes in WordPress
- How to Prevent WordPress from Generating Image Sizes
- How to Prevent Image Theft in WordPress
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How to Upload Images in WordPress
WordPress makes it super easy to upload images to your posts, pages, and non-content areas like sidebars.
To upload images in WordPress posts and pages, you simply need to add the Image block to the content editor.
You can also add the Image block by simply typing /image into a ‘Paragraph’ block.
The editor will start showing blocks you can insert as soon as you start typing.
WordPress will now add the Image block to the editor.
You need to click on the ‘Upload’ button to select and upload the image from your computer.
You can also select a previously uploaded image from your ‘Media Library.’
After uploading the image, you will see a live preview of the image in the content editor.
You will also see image settings in the right panel. From there, you can provide image alt text, select the image size, and customize the image style.
Pro Tip: Are you experiencing issues with uploading images to WordPress? Check out our guide on how to fix the image upload issue in WordPress.
How to Align an Image to the Left or Right in WordPress
With WordPress, aligning images to the left, right, or center is easy.
Simply select the image by clicking on it, and then click on the alignment button from the block toolbar.
You may have noticed how some popular WordPress blogs use images with text wrapped around them.
This is done by using the align feature.
Alternatively, you can also use the ‘Media & Text’ block instead of the ‘Image’ block.
This block is made specifically to add images next to the text.
You can then upload an image and text side by side.
You can also use the block toolbar to change the image or text side.
For detailed guidance, you can check out our guide on how to align images using the WordPress block editor.
How to Add Captions Below Images
WordPress allows you to easily add captions for images. After you upload an image, you will see the option to add a caption right below the image preview.
Similarly, you can also add captions to image galleries in WordPress. For more details, please see our guide on how to add captions to images in WordPress.
How to Display Photos in Columns and Rows
Often, users ask us how to neatly display photos in columns and rows.
Let’s say you want to share photos of a birthday party or vacation photos. You can add them one by one into a post, but this will look like a lengthy list of images.
The better way to group your photos is by creating image galleries.
WordPress comes with a built-in ‘Gallery’ block that allows you to easily add images in rows and columns with thumbnail previews.
Simply add the ‘Gallery’ block to the post editor and select the images you want to upload.
For more detailed instructions, you’ll want to see our guide on how to create an image gallery in WordPress.
How to Create Responsive Image Galleries in WordPress
You will notice that the default WordPress image galleries lack several features. For instance, they are also not very easy to browse.
If you often upload images and photographs to your WordPress site, then you will need a WordPress photo gallery plugin.
We recommend using Envira Gallery. It allows you to easily create beautiful and fully mobile-friendly image galleries on your WordPress site.
For more information about the plugin, you can check out our complete Envira Gallery review.
The best part is that it adds additional functionality like albums, gallery templates, social sharing, slideshows, watermarking, pagination, password protection, tagging, fullscreen view, and much more.
Another popular WordPress photo gallery plugin is NextGEN Gallery. It offers many gallery layouts and a beautiful lightbox gallery for displaying images in WordPress.
NextGEN Gallery also includes powerful features for professional photographers like photo proofing, print fulfillment, image protection, Adobe Lightroom addon, PayPal and Stripe payment gateways, and more.
For more details, you might want to check out our complete NextGEN Gallery review.
How to Fix Missing Post Thumbnails / Featured Image
Most WordPress themes allow you to prominently display a featured image with your articles. Let’s look at how to set a featured image in WordPress to avoid missing thumbnails.
First, you need to click on ‘Set Featured Image’ to upload your post thumbnail.
After uploading the image, you will be able to see your post thumbnail in the featured image meta box like this.
For more details, see our guide on how to add a featured image or post thumbnail in WordPress.
How to Add Cover Images in WordPress Posts and Pages
Cover images are wide or full-width images that can be used as a separator between different sections of an article or a lengthy sales page.
They are highly engaging and help users easily scan a page without feeling overwhelmed by too much text.
To add a cover image, you simply need to add the Cover block to the content editor.
Next, you need to upload the image you want to use from your computer or select one from the Media Library. If you don’t want to use an image, then you can also select a color background as the cover.
Expert Tip: It is best to use a large image for a better result.
You will now see a live preview of your cover image in the editor. You can change the cover image display options from the block toolbar or use the settings on the right.
To learn more, see our guide on the difference between cover image vs. featured image in WordPress and how to use them effectively.
How to Fix the Featured Image Appearing Twice Issue
Inserting the featured image inside content is a common mistake made by beginners.
Once you set a featured image, you don’t need to insert it into the post along with your content.
Doing so will make your featured image appear twice. Once as the featured image and once as an image inside the post.
You can add other images inside your post, but your featured image goes in the featured image box.
For more details, feel free to read our guide on how to fix featured images appearing twice in WordPress posts.
How to Crop Images in WordPress
When you are uploading images from your phone or camera, they are usually too big.
WordPress automatically creates small, medium, and large image sizes for your original upload. But sometimes, you may need to crop the image in a different size.
WordPress is no Photoshop, but it comes with some basic image editing features like scale, crop, flip, and rotate images.
Simply go to Media » Add New and upload your image. After uploading the image, you will see an ‘Edit’ link next to the uploaded image.
Clicking on it will open the ‘Edit Media’ screen, where you will see an ‘Edit Image’ button right below the image. This will open the WordPress image editor.
From here, you can click on the ‘Edit Image’ button below the image preview. This will open the image editing screen.
On the image editor screen, you will see buttons to perform some basic image editing tasks such as cropping, rotating, resizing, etc.
If you use the block editor, you can crop images by using the built-in crop feature in the image toolbar.
Simply click on an image block and select the ‘Crop’ icon in the toolbar.
After that, you can adjust the image’s aspect ratio and the cropped area of your image to your preference.
You can use your original aspect ratio or a predefined one by WordPress.
For more detailed instructions, you can see our guide on how to crop, rotate, scale, and flip images in WordPress.
How to Add a Header Image in WordPress
A header image in WordPress is a theme feature. Many WordPress free and premium themes come with support for header images.
Some WordPress themes allow you to set a site-wide header image, while others allow you to only set a header image for the homepage.
You can upload your own custom header image from the Appearance » Customize page.
If you use a Block theme, the location to edit your theme’s header is different.
First, you need to go to Appearance » Editor.
Then, go ahead and select ‘Patterns.’
This will bring you to a page where you can access your theme’s header pattern.
After that, you’ll want to scroll down to the ‘Template Parts’ section.
Once you’ve done that, just select ‘Header’ and click on the header template to edit it.
From there, you can add an image block to the header pattern like you would in the first section of this article.
How to Add a Background Image in WordPress
Like the custom header image, a custom background image is a WordPress theme feature. Many WordPress themes support custom background images.
Visit Appearance » Customize to launch the ‘Theme Customizer.’
If you can see the ‘Background Image’ option, then your theme has support for custom backgrounds.
It is a theme feature, which is why it varies from one theme to another. Depending on your theme, you will see different options for styling your background image.
If your theme does not support a background image, then you can still use a plugin to add full-screen background images to your website.
How to Optimize Images for WordPress Without Losing Their Quality
One of the most common image issues WordPress users come across is how to compress their images without losing their quality.
Besides being quicker to upload, optimized images load faster on the front, which enhances the user experience and reduces the bounce rate. This is because they consume less bandwidth, saving on data usage for users with limited internet connections.
Search engines also consider page speed when ranking websites. Optimized images contribute to faster loading times, potentially boosting your search ranking.
Luckily, optimizing images is a pretty easy thing to do. All you need is a good image optimization tool like Optimole to run your images through it.
For more information, check out our guide on how to optimize images without losing quality.
Additionally, you may want to consider lazy-loading your images. This tactic will prevent browsers from loading the images on your website until the user scrolls down to the image’s location.
How to Add Title Attributes to WordPress Images
While not essential for the image to function, title attributes provide a brief description of the image that appears when a user hovers over it.
This can improve the user experience by providing additional context for your visitors. For example, if you have an image of a delicious chocolate cake, a title attribute like ‘Homemade Chocolate Cake’ can be helpful.
Title attributes can also be beneficial for WordPress SEO. While they don’t directly impact search ranking, they can help search engines understand the content of your image and improve your website’s accessibility.
For step-by-step instructions, check out our guide on how to add title attributes to your images in WordPress.
How to Find Free Images for Your WordPress Blog Posts
Images can make your articles stand out. However, you must respect the copyrights of other people and find images that you are legally allowed to use.
We are often asked by our readers about how to find the best, royalty-free images to use in their posts.
There are many websites where you can find royalty-free images to use. However, you will soon notice that images on those sites look overused and generic.
You can see our list of the best sources for free public domain and CC0-licensed images for more references.
Alternatively, you can also use AI to generate unique images and make your visuals stand out from the competition.
How to Categorize and Tag Images in WordPress
If you run a photography blog, then you will notice that WordPress does not allow you to sort photos and images.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could add tags to your images so that you and your users can easily browse them?
Luckily, there are some great plugins that allow you to do just that. For more details, see our article on how to add categories and tags to the WordPress Media Library.
For a photography-related blog, the best option is to use Envira Gallery, which comes with an add-on to add tags.
Envira Gallery allows you to create beautiful, mobile-ready photo galleries in WordPress. Using tags, your users can easily filter and sort photos without even reloading a page.
How to Import External Images in WordPress
This question often comes up when you are migrating your site to WordPress. Some images on your website may still be pointing to an older location.
This is especially true for users importing blogs from Blogger, Squarespace, or WordPress.com.
While the images on your site may appear correctly, they are still loading from an external source. To solve this issue, all you need to do is install and activate the Auto Upload Images plugin.
Heads up: This plugin has not been tested with the most recent WordPress updates. That said, we’ve tested it ourselves, and it works fine for our needs. If you have concerns about using untested plugins, we recommend reading our article on the matter: Should You Install Plugins Not Tested With Your WordPress Version?
Discover a plugin that works better for this purpose? Then we’d love to hear your suggestions in the comments!
The plugin will check for external images once you update or save any post or page. You can manually do that for each post or page, or you can bulk edit all posts and simply click the update button.
For detailed instructions, see our guide on how to import external images in WordPress.
How to Require Featured Images for Posts in WordPress
When running a multi-author site in WordPress, some of your authors may not be familiar with the featured image functionality.
In this case, you may want to remind yourself or your users to upload a featured image whenever they are submitting a post in WordPress.
You can do this by installing and activating the PublishPress Checklists plugin.
Once activated, the plugin will display a red exclamation mark and a ‘Checklist’ tab informing users that this post requires a featured image.
You and your users will be able to save posts as drafts, but you cannot publish the post until you add a featured image.
See our article on how to require featured images for posts in WordPress for more instructions.
How to Set a Default Featured Image in WordPress
Finding the perfect featured image for every post or article is a tough task. Sometimes, you may not want to add a featured image to a post, but your theme may look awkward without one.
This is where a default featured image can come in handy. A default featured image is used when an article does not have a featured image of its own.
You can set a default featured image by using the Default featured image plugin.
For more instructions, please see our guide on how to set a default featured image in WordPress.
How to Create Additional Image Sizes in WordPress
By default, WordPress creates and saves different sizes of your uploaded images, including thumbnails. Your WordPress theme might also generate different image sizes.
If you want to create additional image sizes for your WordPress website, then you will need to register them by adding custom code to your theme’s functions.php file.
To learn more, please see our guide to how to create additional image sizes in WordPress.
How to Prevent WordPress from Generating Image Sizes
As explained before, WordPress creates multiple image sizes for your uploads, including thumbnails, mediums, and large sizes. These are helpful for displaying images in different contexts on your website.
However, if you’re using custom image sizes or want to optimize your website’s storage space, you can prevent WordPress from generating these additional sizes.
To find out how to do this, you can read our tutorial on how to prevent WordPress from generating multiple image sizes.
How to Prevent Image Theft in WordPress
Sometimes, users may steal images from your WordPress website to use on their own sites. This can be very frustrating, especially if you take your own photos or create your own graphics.
Luckily, you can prevent image theft by disabling right-click, adding a watermark to your images, disabling hotlinking, and adding copyright notices.
To learn more, please see our guide on how to prevent image theft in WordPress.
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Patricia Mulvey
I’m having trouble with featured images warping when published. They look fine in the media library, but they distort horizontally when I set them as featured images.
Guest
When I am sharing my post the image is not coming up as a thumbnail on other social sites…. ? How to fix that ?
Meenakshi
Hi, I am using the cutomizr theme on wordpress. The “Add media” button doesn’t work, because of this I am not able to upload any images.
Can you please provide some help in this regard?
Patricia Goertzen
I can’t believe this! I just spent 20 minutes typing out my problem and then had to sign in and everything I worked on seems to be lost!
I guess I have to start over. I am Executive Director of a Not-for-Profit. I picked Wordpress because it was supposed to be user friendly. But I have not found that to be the case; especially when updating. Our theme doesn’t work properly and I’m afraid to update WP because last time it blocked my site completely and I had no way to get in. I had to have our server manager access the site to disable plugins. Anyway, right now we are running a Christmas fair as a fundraiser and I have a vendors map that has to be updated a number of times a week. We create the jpeg and no matter how we upload – using drag and drop to the media file or directly to the post, or select files to either of those, or the different browser scenario – multi or otherwise, there is no consistency as to whether the post will show as the new picture or the old picture, even when we can see that the post and media show the new picture, when we log in to the front end with more than one different computer and check the link on the post for the picture, the last uploaded one shows up. We have not been able to figure out how we finally upload and it usually takes an hour or more of trying. There should be a consistent way to upload the new image directly to the post and then be able to click the hyperlink on the front end to get the new picture. I don’t know how to do code.
Brian Schoedel
Thanks you for the helpful fix on the featured images.
chris
I am Using Nextgen gallery for slideshow in my posts. Previously it was working fine. I am not sure what went wrong, it is not working like before. I can upload images to create nextgen gallery , but not able to see the thumbnails. If i click that broken thumbnail it’s displaying an image. Getting an error message saying “GD Library missing” . Suggest me to fix this issue. Thanks in advance.
Gil
I’m new to Wordpress. I just imported 400 plus posts with images and the images doubled on every post. Any fix?Do I have to remove the featured images manually?!?!
WPBeginner Staff
To troubleshoot this issue, we would recommend you to deactivate all plugins and switch to a default WordPress theme like Twenty Twelve or Thirteen. After that try to reupload the images that caused issues earlier. If you are unable to reproduce the problem then this means there is an issue with your theme or a plugin on your site.
Hope this helps
Manuel Echeverry
I’ll do that, thanks
JoshFrets
Whenever I include a caption on a photo, the photo gets cropped––a chunk gets taken off the right side. Without a caption, every photo is perfectly responsive.
Has anyone else had this issue? Is it a WP thing, or my theme?
Manuel Echeverry
need some help here. On some post when I publish them the images wont load, it shows a broken image icon, but if you click the icon the image opens fine.
i detected that this happens with some pictures with dimensions bigger that 3.000 x 3.000 pixels but it ts not always and reducing the resolution not allways solve the problem.
I also notices that the problematic images change the URL type from multimedia to custom URL, so y changed it to multimedia URL when edit the post and the image loads fine again.
so my question is, why the wordpress editor change the url of some of my images to custom URL generating this load image problem? and how to solve it
WPBeginner Staff
Their are two common causes of this issue.
1. Your theme is displaying images that are not regenerated for the image size used by the theme for featured images. In this case, you need to regenerate new image sizes
2. Your theme does not have an image size associated with featured image and it is using the img width and height parameters to scale images down to fit in the thumbnail area. In this case, you need to add a new image size for your thumbnails.
Elizabeth
How do I keep a featured image from becoming distorted or stretched out?
Gabriel
Hello WPBeginner Community!
I have a question about WordPress that has left me dumbfounded. I am currently running version 3.9.1, and something weird happened. In the image editor window, the tabs have disappeared, so I can no longer toggle between Edit Image and Advanced Settings. I was wondering if you know how I can restore the tabs.
Thank you in advance.
Best,
Gabriel
kelly
Thanks for the tip on Importing External Images! Just wondering if any one came across a problem with uploading gifs, only to have them automatically renamed (by wordpress) as a jpg (via add media)? And when you physically check your files via FTP or file manager, the so-called .jpg file is just not there. How to solve this problem?
guil2209
The text doesn’t always align correctly anyway. The problem with text wrapping is that if your last line is too short the sentence is cut and ends below the picture instead of being align with the rest of the paragraph. That looks like shit.. I have solved most of these issues by using tables.
Like:
your photo or text
your photo or text>
That solution works great for me. It prevents pictures from resizing and it makes the text aligned perfectly and prevents some other issues. I create a third cell that I leave blanc to have a space between the two cells.
Dan
I am new to Wordpress and I notice sometime when I add a photo to a web page the photo is simply white (not the photo I selected). If I click on the photo, I can see the image I was trying to upload onto the page but when I hit the back arrow the image goes back to being just white. Have you an idea how to fix this. It doesn’t happen all the time.
WPBeginner Staff
Try regenerating image sizes.
WPBeginner Staff
Contact your web host. Check the support threads for all the plugins you have installed, see if someone else is having the similar issue. Also check your theme’s support forums to see if some users have reported similar issue.
Secret Style
Some great tips! I generally do not have problems with images, only once posts are over 6 months old. I do a lot of beauty and product reviews so even after 12 months my posts are still valid and searched for but images seem to disappear from the post? Even on my pages, every 8 months or so I have to re-load images as they just disappear.
Any suggestions?
WPBeginner Staff
Doesn’t sound like a WordPress issue. Are you able to see images in the Media Library when they disappear from your site? It could be a plugin or server configuration issue.
Secret Style
No they are not in the media library either, http://www.secretstylefile.com/wedding-style-%E2%99%A5-most-memorable-movie-and-television-wedding-dresses/ this post is a prime example, it was a really popular post but as the images have disappeared including the gallery it might as well not be there. The images from when I was not self-hosted (wordpress.com) are still inn my media library so this problem is only since I moved over to a self-hosted site. Please help!
Lara G
Hi. I’m having a different problem and am wondering if you can help. I am using the adament theme. It creates sliders for the galleries in a portfolio. However, the slider is cutting off everyone’s faces and showing only feet, and is also too big. Is there any way to fix this?
WPBeginner Support
Sorry but we are unable to provide support for individual WordPress themes. Please contact theme developers and they will be able to help you better.
Admin
Dan
I am still wondering about something. I removed the default image linking. When I go into my wordpress media files, they all have their own web addresses than can allow comments, allow me to do seo, etc.. Can I get rid of those webpages? It is a different address than the one that was used in image linking before I removed it.
Thank You.
WPBeginner Support
We are not sure we understand your question. Can you please provide more details?
Admin
Connor Doherty
I have been using Wordpress since September and I have found it to be a great way to publish articles with an insane amount of GIFs and images! Before I used to be able to simply paste everything (gifs and photos) from my google doc into my wordpress post without any issue. But now it seems that whenever I try to do so the images and GIFs don’t come up and I have to input them (add media) into the article individually. Is there a reason for this change? I find that it’s a lot more time consuming and tedious and I’m not sure why it’s this way now. Am I missing something?
WPBeginner Support
Connor, we never tried copy pasting an article with images from Google Docs into WordPress. We believe that on your older posts WordPress was able to show images as remote images, this means your images were probably stored with public viewing access on Google docs. It seems like they are not publicly viewable on Google docs so when you copy paste your article from Google Docs to WordPress, it is unable to display the images.
It might be tedious and a bit extra work for you, but we think that importing images through media is a much better approach. Also you can try Import External Images plugin and see if it helps you easily import images.
Admin
Deborah Maas
I have an image question – I publish posts with no problem, but when it comes to sharing them on Facebook, I am only able to select a thumbnail from an option of three images, even though I include many more than that, and the one I want to be the thumbnail with the link I share on Facebook, is unavailable, even if I have set it to featured image. How can I specifically select the exact image I want to appear beside the Facebook link?
WPBeginner Support
This is a known issue with facebook. When a Post is shared through the Like button on a site facebook correctly detects featured image. However, when the URL is posted in the status box, then facebook fetches the images inside the article and ignores the featured image.
Admin
Catherine
Hi,
I’m facing problem with featured image when i make a new post, successfully set featured image, but the image isn’t show up after posting. I’d checked the screen options, and the featured image is selected. What did I do wrong ?
Need your advice.
Thanks.
WPBeginner Support
Featured Images are basically a theme feature, this means how a featured image is displayed on your site is handled by your WordPress Theme. There are thousands of WordPress themes so it is difficult for us to provide you theme specific support. Please contact your theme support and they will be help you better in this regard.
Admin
Nikhil
thanks for all these helpful tips. I have a problem on my wordpress blog which i hope you can solve. I have a tempera theme installed and have manually set the width of the content area and sidebar widget area. however when i upload photos to my posts, the images get cut off from the right side. They also appear really stretched out in the “Add new post” composer. How do I resolve this problem?
Thanks
nikhil
WPBeginner Support
Nikhil it seems like your modifications to the theme are not working as you expected. First backup your theme files so that your modifications are safe. Then install a fresh copy of theme and try it on. If the image problems do not appear in the theme with no modifications, then you need to fix the changes you made to your theme.
Admin
SM-Mahdavi
Thanks,, its very usefull and easy to learn for begginers.
David Weight
This is a very useful site, very helpful. One thing I’m having a problem with that I’ve not seen a question about.
I’ve got a page for a client that lists everyone there. I’ve needed to add a new person to the gallery – image and details, all done and correct. The order of the gallery has been correct, the new person needs to show on the page as the last person. This looks correct in the order in the gallery, but when I publish the updated page, they’re appearing first in the column, not last.
I’m sure it’s something really obvious that I’m missing… any one got any suggestions? It would be really helpful.
Doreen
Lately when I’ve been adding a permalink to a SM site such as FB or Google +, the image that appears automatically has nothing to do with the post I want to feature but with another post I wrote about three months ago.
Any clue as to why this is happening?
Thanks so much!
Gord
Facebook has a size limit and sometimes this is all it is. I say sometimes because in my experience, FB is full of surprises. I believe any dimension must be at least 400px. Works for me.
amber
one of my fav features was being able to customize the size once a picture was added to a post by clicking on the buttons in the top left hand corner – this afternoon i updated my site and now it seems those buttons aren’t working. they still appear but don’t lead anywhere.
HELP?? :))
Valerie
Hi – I’m following your instructions, but I’m having a lot of trouble “wrapping’ text around images in WP. Sometimes the text will wrap, but when I do the exact same thing on the next page, it won’t. Also, sometimes the images will resize for me, sometimes not. It’s getting frustrating.
I’ve googled for the answer to this but the closest I could come up with was this post on your blog (I’m a subscriber to you guys – great info).
I’m not new to WP, but this is a new portfolio site for my writing and I want it to look nicer than what I’ve been doing and have some consistency across the pages… again, frustrating when the behavior of the CMS isn’t consistent.
Any advice you can give me would be great. Thanks!
WPBeginner Support
Valerie, if you use the Visual post editor, then after adding an image you will be able to see how the text around the image behaves inside the post editor. Or you can click on the preview button to see how it behaves. In visual post editor all you need to do is click on edit image button on the image and then adjust the alignment. Hope this helps.
Admin
Aliona
Hi, I have a problem. I can’t add any pictures to Media Library, it says ” Error saving media attachment” or ” “xxxxxx.jpg” has failed to upload due to an error
Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2014/02. Is its parent directory writable by the server?”
I tried to change file permissions for /wp-content/uploads/ folder to 755 but it still the same problem. Do you have any idea what can i do?
Many thanks.
WPBeginner Support
Try changing Folder permissions to 755 for /wp-content/ directory.
Admin
Liz
I am working on localdev of a new site using content downloaded from the current live site. I was told by the guy who hosts it that I could export posts, pages etc but not the images. In localdev, I am seeing images, even in the media library, but no image is rendering properly on the new theme because of sizing being different.
I thought I’d go in an upload new resized images and add to all our old posts replacing the former ones. However, even if I do remove featured image and place the new sized one, I am still seeing the old image skewy. What’s the problem here, and will it be resolved only when I move the localdev site to live hosting? I am not sure what to do. Thanks.
WPBeginner Support
Try regenerating image sizes.
Admin
Diandra Landa
My posts have several images. Being a food/cooking blog I tend to put the end results at the end of the posts. However, that leaves me with a picture of dough as the main image (that shows up as a big picture in the carousel on the homepage). I seem to have no contol over what image is chosen. Is it possible for me to choose the image shown?
Kelly
thanks for the tips. I am wondering if you can help me. I am trying to add a gallery onto a page. The images all get uploaded, but will not save? I try to click save and its as though it is frozen nothing happens? Any thoughts? TIA!!
WPBeginner Support
Quick fix: if the images were successfully uploaded to media library you can create a gallery by selecting images from media library. As for frozen issue, there could be a few things. Check your directory permissions, increase php memory limit on your site, try testing by uploading one image at a time.
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Saeed Ghazi Joolaee
Hi,
Very useful basic information, But I have a strange problem in my wordpress. You talked about broken images in library and permission problems. But mine is another thing.
Images in media library are OK but when I want edit them for example to crop a specific area for thumbnail image,(just this page http://cdn3.wpbeginner.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/crope-image-wordpress.jpg) the broken image is shown and I can’t edit my images totally. What’s wrong? please help me?
Thanks in advance
Mike Ogburn
I created a simple animated GIF. When I place it in WordPress, Responsive theme, all I see is a non-animated image with the background changed from white to black (checked multiple browsers to see if this was just a Chrome issue — wasn’t). The uploaded image in the media library, however, is animated and looks just as it should. It just doesn’t work when placed on my page.
Any solutions/work arounds?
Thanks.
WPBeginner Support
The most likely cause of this could be the image sizes. When you upload an image to WordPress, it automatically creates several copies of the image in different sizes those copies will not have your animation frames. You need to insert the image in full size to make sure it works.
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Christine Goodnough
Very interesting information. What I’ve had trouble with is getting an e-mail picture –or scanning an image– and trying to include that in my post.
I save the image in My Pictures and can see it there. I upload it to my Media file and can see it there. I can edit it and save the edit. I click Add media and see it in the draft. But when I post the article the picture doesn’t show up in my post. Rather, a few words like –Family photo– will show up and if you click on that, the image comes up separately.
Why won’t this picture go into my post? I like to draw and am dismayed that I can’t post my own scanned pictures.
WPBeginner Support
This could happen due to a variety of reasons. Try switching to a default WordPress theme like twenty fourteen or twenty thirteen and see if this resolves your issue.
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Lee Spencer
I have posts with the link to photo’s to a old domain name that I no longer have. is there a way to change the links is each post with out editing each of the one at a time?
WPBeginner Support
Lee you can try using Broken Link Checker plugin. If this does not work for you then try importing external images. Make sure to backup your WordPress site first.
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Syed Balal Rumy
After uploading image on wordpress, my image is coming very small. i am not able to fix this small size. please help ?
WPBeginner Support
You probably need to change the image size to medium, or large. If that does not work, go to Media > Library and make sure that your uploaded image is there and is available in Full Size.
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Kamesjvara
I have a problem with the featured image
If i’m using set featured image, caption on the image will not show in the post, but if i’m using add media the caption for the image will show.
how to fix that ? if i have 2 different gallery that not problem, but if the post is only need one photo it will be double post thumbnails
Jeff Harris
Regarding images for a moment, I’ve been having this problem uploading images.
I keep getting this “Error saving media attachment..” I changed my site’s settings. My host changed permissions. And the error persists. I can’t upload anything to the site, and for an image-heavy site like mine, that’s a bad thing.
This has been plaguing me for a month, and I need help.
WPBeginner Support
The most common reason for this error is usually either file permissions or file size limit. Try changing file permissions for /wp-content/uploads/ folder to 755 or ask your host to do this for you.
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hans
How to align or wrap gallery to the left or right (text) in WordPress?
Franco
Hi!
May be you can help with resolving one more issue related to images.
If a website uses front-posting or guest posts then how to restrict user access to their own images?
The problem is users can see all images in Media Library.
Thanks in advance!
WPBeginner Support
It actually depends on user permissions on your website. If the registered users on your site have access to the media library, then they can view the images. See our guide on user submitted posts and how to add or remove capabilities to user roles in WordPress.
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Emily
My dream is that some site like this will have a grandma adviser. Not that you have to be an elder to be a know-not-much about techie stuff. Young people too haven’t a clue.
I post images by putting them in my Open Office, and pasting the whole thing in. Works okay.
Grandma Kc
GREAT information! I have a question — maybe you can help? It makes me crazy that after uploading multiple images to the media library if you click edit next to one of the images to add a caption or alternate text it opens in a new tab which does not close when you hit update! So you can end up with the dashboard open in a bunch of tabs. I am running 3.6.1 and this didn’t happen with older versions — I think it started with 3.5 — do you know a way around this? Thanks!
WPBeginner Support
Unfortunately there is no way around this. The Edit link is supposed to open in the new tab so that users can edit multiple images at once. We understand that you would want that new tab to close when you hit the update button, we agree it is kind of annoying to have these tabs opened. However, for other users clicking the update button does not necessarily mean that they are done editing image so I guess this is why the does not close automatically.
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Grandma Kc
Thanks for the answer! I appreciate it. Must admit I liked the old way better….. But thank you!
Nandu Choudhary
awesome tips – thanks!
Lee Blue
The first couple tips seemed very obvious, but as I progressed down the list it got more and more interesting. The gallery tips and fixing the double image post issue were my two favorite tips.
yuda
awesome tips – thanks!
Waqas
Awesome
Venu Hyderabad
Recently i subscribe in your website, i got a lot of knowledge, especially in this post everything explained and easy to understand any one. thanks to share this image related post thanks a lot and share more knowledge as well..
Ankit Chugh
Super useful article… really liked the gallery option for posts…