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How To Upload a Document or Image to WordPress

Published May 31, 2012 (Updated: September 9, 2015) by Liz Eisworth

Add Media Button in WordPress WordPress is a wonderful intuitive platform, but as a new WordPress user, it is sometimes easiest to have someone explicitly explain how to do simple tasks for the first time. Here we explain how to upload and insert a document or an image to your post/page.

Either Way, Start with the Upload Media Icon

Whether you are uploading a document or an image, you start in the same place, the Upload Media button (which has this icon  Add Media Icon ) and which is located directly above the editing window when you are editing/creating a post or a page (see image).

Select the Image or Document To Be Uploaded

Choose files to insert into WordPress page or post After you click this icon, the Insert Media window will pop up. You can upload files from your computer by choosing the “Upload Files” tab or you can select an image that has previously been uploaded to the website by choosing the “Media Library” tab (see image).

Inserting Images Into a Post/Page

When the media you uploaded is an image, you will see the details pertaining to image files displayed in the Add Media pop up. These details include:

  • Title: The title is no longer required but may be filled in with a default value. You can change it to be whatever you want, but we currently recommend leaving it blank to best meet HTML5 Standards.
  • Alternate Text:Alt text for the image, e.g. “The Mona Lisa”. The Alt Text field should be used to describe the image that is being inserted. This text is used by Reading Software to describe the image to users. You should try to make the Alt text both descriptive and contain meaningful keywords where possible to enhance Search Engine Optimization.
  • Caption: Caption if needed
  • Description:Additional additional longer descriptive information about the image if necessary.
  • Link To: The Link To field allows you to select if you want to link the image to a URL. The options in the dropdown are to link to the Media File (URL of the full-size image), the URL to the Attachment page for the image (seldom applicable), to a Custom URL or to nothing.
  • Alignment: None, Left, Center, Right – Choose how you want the image to align on the page.
  • Size:  Thumbnail, Medium, Large, Full Size – Choose the size of the image you want to insert. The maximum sizes for these default values can be edited by going to Settings > Media.  After inserting an image, you can change the size of the image just by ‘grabbing’ the corner of the image and adjusting it visually to the size you like.

Fill in the fields as needed and click the Insert into Page/Post button.

The video below about Editing pages in WordPress contains a brief section on adding images.

Inserting PDF Files or Documents into a Post or Page

When the media you uploaded is a document, you will see the details pertaining to document files displayed in the Insert Media pop up. It looks pretty much the same as the pop up for inserting an image with minor differences in the details that can be filled in. These details include:

  • Title:  This field will be filled in automatically by WordPress, but you can change it to whatever you want. NOTE: When you click ‘Insert into Post’, the title is what will appear on the page with a link to the document. **See our video below that shows a shortcut for inserting PDF Documents and linking to them.
  • Caption: I honestly do not know why a caption is needed for a document, so I never fill this in. I think it is just displayed by default.
  • Description: Even when filled in for a document, this is not added to the markup when the document is inserted, so again I think this field is just displayed by default…..I always ignore it when dealing with documents.
  • Link TO: This field can be set to link to the document file or to the Attachment page (seldom applicable).

Fill in the fields as needed and click the Insert into Page/Post button. NOTE: Sometimes it is easiest to just copy the URL directly to the file to your clipboard, then exit the pop up and create a link using whatever text you want. We demonstrate how to do this in the video below. ↓

 

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Liz Eisworth is the founder and lead designer of SangFroid Web located in Alpharetta, GA. As an experienced website designer and SEO strategist, Liz designs custom WordPress websites, optimizes websites for SEO, and leverages Local SEO / Google Business Profiles for business owners who are looking to improve their online presence to earn more traffic and leads. She built her first website for a business in 2003 and her first WordPress website in 2006. Learn more about Liz »

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