In WordPress you can upload, store, and display a variety of file types (media) into your site’s content.
The most common file types are images, videos and audio files, but you can also use other file types such as PDF document files, spreadsheet files, code samples, etc.
Adding media to the WordPress Media Library allows you to upload photos and create image galleries usingan interface that makes uploading files and placing them into your posts and pages very easy.
Additionally, you can create image galleries very quickly with drag and drop reordering, inline caption editing, and simplified controls for layout, amongst other things.
In this tutorial you are going to learn how to use the feature.
Note: Some settings such as specifying the size of thumbnail images and options for the location and structure of the upload directory (where your media files are stored) are controlled in the Media Settings section.
Watch the video below and then complete the step-by-step tutorial to learn more about using the WordPress media library …
How To Use The WordPress Media Library: Step-By-Step Tutorial
You can upload and store various types of media files in your WordPress Library …
You can also upload files to your site without creating a post or page first. This allows you to upload files to use with posts and pages later and/or get a web link to a particular file that you can share.
To view all the files in your WordPress site’s Library, go to your navigation menu and click on Media>Library…
This brings up the Library screen ….
A table listing all of your files will display in the Library screen. In a later section of this tutorial we will cover all the features available in this section.
If you have not added any files to your Library, you will see an empty table …
How To Add Media Files To Your WordPress Media Library
To add files to your WordPress site’s Library, go to your navigation menu and click on Media>Add New…
You can also add new files by clicking on the Add New button in your Library screen …
A new screen called Upload New Media opens up containing the WordPress Uploader functions …
There are three options you can use to upload files to your site:
1) Drag-And-Drop: You can add multiple files to your Library by selecting a group of files and dragging them into the Drop files here area surrounded by the dashed border.
2) Select Files: This opens a window that lets you select a folder in your hard drive and upload files from your computer.
3) You can also use the Browser Uploader if you experience any problems using the multi-file uploader…
Note: the maximum upload size for your files is determined by your web hosting account settings. In the example screenshot above, the Maximum upload file size is showing as 64MB (MegaBytes). Your screen may show a different maximum limit.
If you are experiencing problems uploading files to your WordPress site, your limit size may be set too low. You could use an image editing application to resize the image, but it’s best to ask your web hosting company to increase your file upload settings, or see this tutorial: How To Increase The Maximum File Upload Size In WordPress
Let’s go through each of the file upload methods now …
Drop files here – Drag-and-Drop method
The drag-and-drop method is useful if you want to upload multiple files located in the same source folder. However, you can also use it to upload a single image.
Make sure that both the Upload New screen and the folder containing your image files are open and visible on your screen (you may have to resize their windows on your browser to see both of them at once).
Next select a single image, or multiple images by holding down the Shift or the CTRL button, then drag your selected files from your folder into the blue dotted area of the Upload New screen (in the Drop files here section) and release your mouse …
If you have selected multiple files, these will begin uploading …
Once your files have been uploaded, they will display in your Library …
Select Files Method
This method allows you to search for the location of your files (e.g. in your hard drive), then upload one or multiple files.
Click on Select Files in the Uploader, and locate the folder containing your files, then …
Select one or more files to upload and click Open in the File Upload window …
Selecting the file(s) you want to upload and clicking Open activates a progress bar on the Upload New Media screen …
You can also use this method to upload different media file types (e.g. audio and video files) from different folder locations on your hard drive.
Selected files are placed in a queue waiting to be uploaded …
Using The Browser Uploader Method
If you experience any problems uploading your files using the previous methods, then try using the browser uploader instead.
After clicking on the browser uploader link, a new screen appears. Click the Browser button, then locate the file you want to upload and click on the Upload button to import your file …
Click on Switch to the multi-file uploader to exit the browse uploader and return to the multi-file uploader …
Attaching Media Files To Posts And Pages
Typically, there are two ways to upload media to WordPress:
You can upload files into a Post or Page while creating or editing your Post or Page
You can upload files that is not related to a Post or Page yet.
If a file is uploaded within the edit screen of a post or page, it will automatically be attached to that post or page.
If a file is uploaded via the Library, then the file(s) will be unattached. The file(s) may become attached to a post or page when inserted into a post or page later, but you can also attach unattached items directly inside the Library feature …
For example, here is a screenshot of an image that was uploaded via the Library and that is currently unattached to any page or post …
Clicking on the Uploaded to > Attach link associated with an unattached file brings up a screen that allows you to associate the file with a page or post …
To do this, search for the page or post you want to attach the file to, the select it from the list and click the Select button …
Note: Media items are also “Posts” in their own right and can be displayed as such .
If the parent post of an attached media item is deleted, the item will become attached to the deleted post’s parent if it exists. If no parent post exists, the item will become unattached and available for re-attachment to another post or page.
Editing Media Files In The WordPress Media Library
Once a item is uploaded to the WordPress Media Library, it can be edited.
You can edit the item by hovering your mouse over it and clicking on the Edit link…
You can also edit the item by clicking on its file name and thumbnail image …
Uploaded media such as Videos, Audios, PDF documents, etc… allow you to edit features such as your File Title, Caption and Description …
Image files, on the other hand, offer far greater editing options than other media types …
Deleting Media Files From The WordPress Media Library
To permanently delete an item from the Library, hover your mouse over the item you want to delete and click on the Delete Permanently link …
Your media item will be permanently deleted …
See the Filtering Options section further below for instructions on how to delete multiple files.
Viewing Items Uploaded To The WordPress Media Library
You can view items you have uploaded to the WordPress Library by hovering your mouse over the item and clicking on the View link …
The item will be displayed as a separate post …
Additional Information – Table Of Media
Library items are displayed in a table, with all of your media items listed by row, and the newest uploaded item listed first …
The Table of Media contains the following columns:
[ ] – Check the box to select an item. Selected items can be processed by a Bulk Action.
Thumbnail – A thumbnail image of the item is displayed in this column.
File – This column displays the name of the file (Note: this is not the same as the filename of the uploaded media) …
The file’s type (e.g TXT, PNG, JPG, PDF) is displayed below the file’s name …
Author – This column lists the user who uploaded the item, or the file’s assigned author. Note: Files can be assigned a different author than the user who uploaded the file. See this tutorial for details on how to change authors for files.
Uploaded to – This column displays whether a file is unattached, or the Post or Page the file is attached to and the date of that Post or Page. Click on the title of the Post or Page to view that Post or Page in an edit Screen. If a media file is unattached, an “Attach” link will appear allowing the file to be attached to selected Posts or Pages.
Comment Bubble – This column displays the number of comments a file has received …
Date – This column displays the time or date the file was uploaded.
Sort the Columns
The column headings in the Table of Media can be clicked to sort items in ascending or descending order.
Hover over the column title (e.g. File), and the up arrow or down arrow will display. Click the heading to change the sort order of your media files …
Media Library Page Navigation
The number of items uploaded to your Library is displayed in the Table of Media, as well as the number of pages (if there is more than one page of media uploaded).
You can use the navigation arrows to skip to the first or last page, or to move backwards or forwards one page at a time. Also, you can enter a page number in the box showing the current page number to go directly to that page …
You can also specify the number of media items to display per page (see next section below).
Media Library Screen Options
The Screen Options allow you to choose which columns are displayed, or not displayed, in the Table of Media.
Click the Screen Options tab on the top right-hand corner of your Library screen …
A list of columns is displayed with a check-box next to each column. Check the box for each column that you want displayed in the Table of Media, or uncheck the box to hide that column.
You can also specify the number of items to display per page in the Table of Media. Remember to click the Apply button when finished to apply your new settings …
Click the Screen Options tab to close the Screen Options box.
Search Media
Above the Table, to the right, is a search box where you can enter one or more search terms and click the Search Media button to search and display all the files that include your search terms …
Your search results are displayed in the Table of Media …
Note: Click All in the Library menu to reset your page and display all files in the Table of Media …
Filtering Options
At the top of the Media Library screen are links such as All, Images, Audio, Video, Unattached, etc. that allow you to display only media files of that type in the Table of Media when the link is clicked …
Below these links are the Bulk Actions drop-down menu, Apply button, Show all dates drop-down menu and the Filter button …
Bulk Actions Drop-Down Menu – You can perform Bulk Actions on one or more media files selected in the Table of Media.Current;y, the only Bulk Action allowed for media files is to permanently delete all selected files.
To use the Bulk Actions filter, (1) select the checkbox(es) for all media files you want to delete. Do this by ticking each box individually, or click on the column header checkbox to select all media files (unchecking the header or footer title bar checkbox will cause all entries in the table to be unchecked), then (2) select Delete Permanently from the Bulk Actions drop-down menu,and (3) click the Apply button …
Show all Dates – This dropdown allows you to select which media files are displayed in the Table of Media by date. By default, “Show all dates” is selected and all of your files are displayed.
To filter media files by upload date, (1) select one of the available dates from the Show all dates drop-down menu, and (2) click on the Filter button to apply the filter selection …
Plugins
If you plan to use media frequently, there are a number of plugins you can add to your WordPress site to enhance your Library functionality and help you better manage and organize your uploaded media, like Media Library Assistant …
Congratulations! Now you know how to use the WordPress Media Library.
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The RunClick WordPress webinar software lets you run a business-level webinar platform on your WordPress site using Google Hangouts.
Digital business tools like webinars and video conferencing applications help organizations to make presentations online, work together remotely, save valuable time and work more productively. These solutions are also great for the environment as they reduce the need to travel, and provide workers with many other benefits and advantages, such as improving work-life balance, etc…
A business that will be successful must do the followings:
Improve Engagement
Improve Productivity
Reduce Expenses
Save Money
Save Time
Work Smarter
Move more goods and Services
Webinars and online meeting tools let you do this easily.
Webinars can help grow your business in many different ways. You can use webinars to teach people and promote your products and services, deliver timely events and presentations to a live audience who can ask you questions and provide you with immediate feedback, help users get clarification on any questions they may have, and reach a worldwide audience of customers for your business, events, workshops, services, membership sites, and more.
Additionally, webinars allow you to develop new relationships, grow your prospect lists and even create new products “on the fly” simply by recording your presentations and redistributing these as videos, podcasts, presentation slides with transcripts, and so on.
Webinars, then, are a terrific and effective way to do business, teach and learn new information and share ideas. The problem, however, is that the cost of accessing these tools can be very expensive or even prohibitive for many businesses, with some services requiring you to remain subscribed and pay ongoing fees, and restricting the number of people who can attend.
Fortunately, if you run a WP site, there is now a way to run webinars with no limits or ongoing expenses.
Introducing …
RunClick – Video Conferencing Plugin
Plugin Description
The RunClick WordPress webinar software allows you to run a business-level webinar platform on your WP site using Google’s own webcasting tool, Google Hangouts.
Google Hangouts is a powerful web broadcasting application, but it’s not a marketing solution. RunClick uses the high quality audio visual capabilities of Google Hangouts, and also gives you the power of pre-recorded webinars at no additional cost, plus built-in lead capture and follow-up functionality, giving you a complete webinar system.
RunClick (previously released as “Hangout Plugin”) is a very simple-to-install and easy-to-use webinar plugin for WordPress that will help you promote and broadcast your information to an unlimited global audience, build engagement with your attendees, close sales live online, turn your presentations into webinars that can be scheduled to run automatically, and instantly set up automated follow-up campaigns.
Here are just some of the many benefits and advantages of using RunClick to run webinars and video conferences using Google Hangouts on your WP web site:
No Limits On Events
With RunClick you can run as many webinars, web conferences, training courses and live presentations as you want.
No Ongoing Fees
Unlike a number of solutions that restrict the number of people who can view your web conferences, RunClick allows you to stream your information to an unlimited number of registrants.
No Monthly Fees
Many webinar services can be very expensive or require you to subscribe and pay ongoing fees, even if you have no new events planned for that month. Some services, for example, can cost around $500 per month.
Some additional benefits include:
Hold Virtual Meetings: RunClick allows you to hold web-based meetings with anybody anywhere around the world, monitor attendance, send out minutes, and take advantage of Google’s own infrastructure to provide superior video and audio quality to your online meetings.
Improve User Engagement: You can chat, run live surveys and share live virtual information with users to boost your interactivity and monitor results with real-time reporting.
Earn Repeat Profits: Your webinars are automatically recorded, enabling you to schedule ongoing replays and earn residual streams of income from pre-recorded webinars.
Plugin Features
RunClick is a complete webinar solution that offers many features to website owners. Here are just a few of these:
Easy Installation & Setup: Unlike the majority of webinar and video conferencing solutions that are hosted, RunClick installs easily on a domain. Leads can be added to your auto-responder and sent your replay later!
Excellent Quality Audio And Video: RunClick uses Google’s own webcast system to provide excellent audio and visual quality to your presentations.
Automatic Webinar Capture: Just press “Go” and begin running your broadcast. The plugin will automatically begin recording it.
Control Over Your Brand: RunClick includes a range of high quality templates, providing you with control of your pages and your branding. You can also add your own custom template designs.
RunClick also allows you to replay your recorded broadcasts and gives users additional replay features like:
Timed Availability: You can schedule your replays to be available and display countdown timers to increase urgency and maximize registrations. Once the scheduled time period has lapsed, replays then become unavailable automatically.
Replay Access Options: Schedule your replays to broadcast to any member of the public, or restrict access to event registrants only.
Testimonials
Here are just a few of the testimonials plugin customers have provided for RunClick:
“This isn’t blowing smoke… I’ve literally saved two companies well over $6000 each.” Drew Griffin
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“I seldom considered running webinars because of the cost associated with them. Your plugin changed all that.” Robert Blake
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Plugin Tips
Convert your powerpoint presentations and training broadcasts into instant info products and generate residual sources of revenue with the RunClick webinar software installed on your website or blog.
The plugin automatically records all of your broadcasts, so with a little imagination and a small investment of time and effort behalf, you can significantly expand your business and increase your profitability.
For example, even if you are not an expert in your field yet, you can promote webinars featuring guest speakers who will reply to your questions or discuss a specific topic providing thus most of the information for the webcasts. This will give you high quality content that involved no expert knowledge on your part to create.
Support
RunClick was developed by Walt Bayliss, a well-known and highly respected WordPress plugin and software developer. The software is well-supported, and users get lifetime upgrades and new releases for free with their purchase, backed by a no-risk, 30 day, complete money-back guarantee.
“It is truly rewarding to find someone who not only stands behind his product but is there to handle any question in a timely manner.” Cary Ganz, President Mobile Market Creator Inc.
Plugin Cost
The RunClick software license gives you the ability to run as many webinars as you want and can be accessed for a one-time purchase fee of US$97.
Please Note: The cost to purchase the RunClick plugin can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. The price above was current at the time this content was published. This may not be the actual pricing set by the software developer when you visit the plugin site and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
For “how-to” videos showing how the software works, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the RunClick website.
We Recommend
RunClick lets you schedule web-based conferences and provide high-quality webinars, online training, sales presentations and more without limits on how many people you can present to, and with no long-term costs.
If you run a business or sell a product or service online, or if you need to provide training to remote users, manage online meetings, make sales presentations, and more, then we recommend downloading and installing RunClick. It is a cost-effective, easy to use, well-supported and complete webinar and software system that installs and integrates easily with your WP site.
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How To Add Images to WordPress Using An Image Gallery
Are you looking for a way to insert a number of images or photos into your posts and pages?
Many people immediately go looking for a plugin, but did you know that WordPress offers a built-in image gallery feature that allows you to easily insert multiple images into your content and display these in a professional-looking grid-like gallery view?
Note: if you simply want to learn how to insert a single image into your content, see this tutorial.
Below is an example of an image gallery created using the native WordPress gallery feature …
How To Add Images to WordPress Using An Image Gallery
In this tutorial you are going to learn how to insert multiple images into your posts and pages using the built-in WordPress image gallery feature.
Watch the video below and then complete the step-by-step tutorial to learn more about using the WordPress image gallery …
Using The WordPress Image Gallery: Step-By-Step Tutorial
The WordPress built-in image gallery feature lets you create multiple image galleries for displaying images on your posts and pages.
To add an image gallery to a post or page, create a new post or page or open up an existing one, then place your mouse cursor when you want the image gallery inserted and click on the Add Media button …
The Insert Media screen will open in a pop-up window. Click on the Create Gallery link as shown in the example below …
How To Add Images to WordPress Using An Image Gallery
Select the images you want to include in your gallery (selected images will display a check mark on the upper right-hand corner) and click on the button labelled Create a new gallery at the bottom of the screen…
This will bring up the Edit Gallery screen …
There are a number of things you can do in the Edit Gallery screen:
You can add a caption to your images. To do this, just click on the field below the image where it says “Caption this image …” and type in your text …
You can reorder the images using drag and drop. Just click on an image and drag it to a new location, then release your mouse button. Your image will be placed in the new location …
You can reverse the order that your images display in your gallery by clicking on the Reverse order button …
You can remove images from your gallery hovering over the image with your mouse and clicking on the box marked with an “X” …
Gallery Settings
As well as the gallery edit options shown above, there are also a number of gallery settings that can be adjusted.
You can choose whether to link your images to an attachment page or the media file by selecting an option from the dropdown menu in the Link To section …
The image below shows the difference between selecting the “Attachment Page” and “Media File” options …
You can also specify the number of columns for your gallery by selecting an option from the dropdown menu in the Gallery Settings > Columns section …
The image below shows how different column settings display your images …
You can also specify whether your images should display in random order or not by ticking the Random Order checkbox …
The image below shows how images with Random Order option enabled display on your published post or page …
Once you have finished editing your image gallery and adjusting your settings, it’s time to insert your image gallery into your post or page …
Click on the Insert gallery button at the bottom of the Edit Gallery screen …
A placeholder image will be inserted into your content if using the visual editor …
If using the text editor, you will see a gallery shortcode inserted into the content (using gallery shortcodes is explained further below in this tutorial) …
To view your image gallery, publish or update your post or page …
How To Add Images to WordPress Using An Image Gallery
Making Changes To Your Image Gallery
If you want to make changes to an existing image gallery, make sure that you are in the “Edit Post” or “Edit Page” screen, and click on the image gallery placeholder image.
This will display the Edit Gallery and Delete Gallery icons. Click on the Delete Gallery icon to remove your image gallery from your content, or click on the Edit Gallery icon to make changes to your existing image gallery …
We have already shown you how to make a number of changes to your gallery, such as adding captions, reordering or reversing the display order of images, removing images from the gallery and changing image gallery settings.
You can also add new images to your gallery by clicking on the Add to Gallery button as shown below …
You can add images that you have previously uploaded or upload new image files to your existing gallery. Once you have completed adding new images to your gallery, click on the Add to gallery button …
The new image will be added to the gallery, as shown in the Edit Gallery screen …
Click the Update gallery button to update your gallery …
And then click on the Update button to republish your post …
Your image gallery is now updated with your new image(s) …
The WordPress Image Gallery: Using Shortcodes
WordPress supports using short codes for images and galleries. A shortcode is a code that you can enter in the visual editor of a post or page to insert a feature, functionality or script. Basically, Shortcodes can embed files or create objects into your posts or pages that would normally require lots of complex code in just one line.
Shortcodes are wrapped in square brackets ( [ ] ) as shown below …
Here’s the shortcode for the WordPress image gallery …
Inserting the gallery shortcode into your content …
Displays your image gallery when your post or page is published …
You can also display a specific image using the gallery shortcode using a shortcode that includes the image ID …
To find your image ID, do the following:
Go to Media > Library
Hover your mouse over an image
The ID is displayed after “post=” in the status bar at the bottom of your screen, as shown below …
Add the shortcode where you want the image to appear in the content …
And your image will display when your post or page is published …
Additional Gallery Shortcode Options
You can customize your gallery using additional shortcode options, such as columns, id, size, link, include, exclude, orderby, order, itemtag, icontag, and captiontag.
Note: Before using any of the shortcode options above, make sure that you have “attached” the images you want to use in your gallery to a specific post or page …
If you need help attaching images to posts or pages, see this tutorial.
Here are some examples of gallery shortcodes you can use:
columns
The above shortcode lets you specify the amount of columns you want your image gallery to display on your post or page. Simply enter the number of columns inside the quotation marks. The default value is 3. If columns are set to 0, no row breaks will be included.
size
You can use the shortcode above to display your images as thumbnail, medium, large and full size. Simply enter one of these options inside the quotation marks:
thumbnail
medium
large
full
id
The above shortcode allows you to display images attached to a post ID. By default, if no ID is specified, the gallery will display images attached to the current post. In the screenshot above, for example, the gallery would display all images attached to post 123. If you need help finding a post or page ID, see this tutorial.
include
We have covered using this shortcode in the earlier section of this tutorial. Include multiple images by inserting comma-separated IDs.
exclude
You can exclude images by adding the above shortcode with comma-separated IDs for images that you don’t want to display. See the earlier section of this tutorial to learn how to identify image IDs in your media library.
order
This lets you specify the sort order, used to display thumbnails. You have the following options:
ASC (ascending)
DESC (descending)
order by
This option lets you specify how to sort your display thumbnails. By default, your image gallery uses “menu_order” to display images using the order you have specified when creating your gallery.
The options include:
menu_order (note: you can reorder the images by editing your image gallery)
title (order by image title, as specified in the Media Library)
post_date (sort images by date/time)
rand (display images in random order)
ID (order images by ID)
You can combine order and orderby in a single shortcode. For example …
The above shortcode will sort images by ID in descending order.
To sort images by date/time in ascending order, you would enter the shortcode below into your post or page …
And to sort images by image title in ascending order, you would enter the following shortcode …
For most users, the default WordPress gallery feature is more than ideal for their needs.
There are several plugins available, however, that can help you create beautiful-looking image galleries with WordPress. If you plan to use image galleries extensively throughout your site, then check out our tutorial on how to use a popular and feature-rich image gallery plugin.
Congratulations! Now you know how to insert multiple images into your posts and pages using the built-in WordPress image gallery feature.
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WordPress Tutorial for Beginners: You can specify your name and decide how it is displayed on your website through your profile section. This also includes how you want to display your:
Email address for administrative purposes
Personal details – optional
And Additional settings
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This tutorial reveals how to edit your WordPress user profile and also how to configure the optional contact information.
The Users Profile Area lets you how your name will be displayed on your site, your e-mail address for admin purposes, and other personal information and personal options associated with your WordPress user account.
You will also learn how to create a “resources” section that automatically displays your published content on the Author Archives area of your blog and how to use this feature to better promote an author or their business online.
WordPress Tutorial for beginners: How To Change Your User Profile And Personal Options In WordPress
On the far right in your administration area is the Howdy, User Name section …
Hover over this panel with your mouse and it displays an image of your Gravatar, your name and username, and links pointing to your “Profile Screen” and a “Log Out” link …
Select Edit My Profile…
Another way to edit your user profile section using the main navigation menu is to go to Users > Your Profile …
This open up the Profile screen …
The Profile screen contains a number of subsections that allow you to manage information about your WordPress user account.
These include:
Personal Options
Name
Contact Info
About Yourself
Change Password
Let’s go through each of these sections below …
WordPress Tutorials for beginners: Your Profile Fields
Please refer to the screenshot above as you go through the sections below.
Main Profile Screen
1 – Accessing Your Profile
As we’ve already mentioned, you can access your profile by clicking on your username, which is displayed on the top right hand side of the screen, and selecting “Edit My Profile” from the drop-down menu, or selecting Users > Your Profile using the main navigation menu.
Profile > Personal Options
You can typically ignore this section, unless you specifically want to customize aspects of your WordPress site administration area that are only viewable to you (and no one else) such as disabling the visual editor when writing, changing the admin area’s colour scheme, or enabling keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation.
2 – Visual Editor
Ticking this box disables the visual editor and uses the plain HTML editor instead.
Tip: Should you experience any issues when trying to add code to your posts or pages (e.g. HTML), try disabling the visual editor checkbox in this section.
3 – Admin Colour Scheme
With WordPress, you can customize the look of your WordPress Dashboard by selecting a global colour scheme…
WordPress User Profile: Changing The Default WordPress Colour Scheme
You can select a different color scheme for your WordPress administration area from the default choices, or add a custom colour scheme using WordPress plugins …
WordPress Tutorials for beginners
Although this has no impact on what your blog visitors see (your theme controls the look of your site is controlled by themes) or the functionality of your site, this feature can be useful to brand the dashboard area with your corporate colours, or allowing other site users to personalize their own dashboard.
WordPress Tutorials for Beginners: To learn how to customize your WordPress dashboard, see the tutorial below:
Ticking the Enable keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation box allow you to rapidly navigate and perform actions to moderate comments using keyboard shortcuts.
5 – Toolbar
The Toolbar is located at the very top of your Administration screen and provides you (and your registered site users) with access to various administrative functions, features, information and “quick links” to other areas of your site …
Important: Leave the “Show Toolbar when viewing site” check box enabled to display the Toolbar in your WP administration area.
WordPress Tutorial for Beginners: To learn more about the WordPress toolbar, see the tutorial below:
Your username cannot be changed in the Profile section by anyone, including the site administrator.
You can, however, change your username if you know how to edit your WP database.
You can also change the username inside the WordPress Admin area using an easier method that requires no code editing or messing with your site’s database.
Changing your username will affect your login, as this username is required for logging into your site!
For a tutorial that teaches you how to do this, go here:
You can edit your First Name and Last Name details in this section.
Just type the first name and last name into the name fields …
7 – Name > Nickname / Display Name Publicly As
If you want a different author name than the one you originally set up for your WordPress site to display on your posts, you can change the Nickname (required) field and select your new nickname from the Display name publicly as drop down menu …
You can add multiple nicknames to your profile section.
If you select a new nickname, all your blog posts, comments, etc. will then display with your new nickname, instead of the one that you originally set up your site with.
Profile > Contact Info
8 – Contact Info > Email
Ensure that your correct email address is entered in the Email (required) field. This field is required (see “Notes” section below for more information).
9 – Contact Info > Website
Add the address of your website or blog into the Website field.
If you would like to display another URL in your profile, then enter the address for that website or blog instead.
10 – Contact Info > Other
You can enter details for the other Contact Info section fields, or just ignore these.
For more details about using this feature, see the “WordPress User Profile: Additional Contact Information” section further below.
Profile > About Yourself
11 – About Yourself > Biographical Info
In this section, you can insert a personal or business description for your visitors or blog readers.
For more details about using this feature, see the “Useful Tips Related To Your WordPress User Profile” section below.
12 – About Yourself > Password Settings
Here you can change your login password details.
Use the New Password section only if you are required to change your login password. You will need to enter your new password twice before the system can accept the password change.
For a tutorial that teaches you you how to change your WordPress password, go here:
WordPress lets you log out of all current sessions except the one in your current browser. This is useful if, for example, you’ve left your account logged in at a public computer, or if you’ve lost or misplaced your phone.
For more information about logging securely out of WordPress, see the tutorial below:
Click the Update Profile button to save any changes you make to your user profile …
WordPress Tutorials for beginners: Important Notes
WordPress only requires your e-mail address and a nickname in the User Profile section.
Your email address is only used for administration purposes.
The email address on your profile is never sent to any other site (including WordPress) and it is never shown on your site (unless you decided to publish it, or use a particular WP theme that displays the email address).
Only registered users of your blog can access the email address you have provided.
Each user’s email address must be unique.
In Addition …
Installing certain plugins on your site (e.g. for adding social media features), may insert or remove fields in your User Profile area (e.g. add a Facebook URL field, insert extra settings related to the plugin, etc…)
There are a number of plugins that allow you to change user profile fields. You can find a number of these plugins by typing in keywords like “user profile fields” in the “Add Plugins” section inside your WordPress dashboard …
See Tip #3 in the “Useful Tips Related To Your WordPress User Profile” section below for an example of a free plugin that lets you remove unnecessary user profile fields.
WordPress Tutorials for beginners: Your Profile: Additional Contact Info
As mentioned earlier, your WordPress Profile area has a number of fields that allow you to enter extra contact information such as:
Normally, most users simply ignore these fields. Some WordPress theme developers, however, may choose to customize their templates to display this and other contact information.
If this is the case, then you can set up accounts with these services (if you haven’t already done so) and then add your details to the appropriate fields in the Contact Info section.
Currently, WordPress provides default fields for the following services:
AIM
AIM is a desktop and mobile chat application that allows you to chat with friends or collaborate on a group project online …
WordPress Tutorials for beginners:
Yahoo! Messenger
Yahoo! Messenger allows you to connect and chat with friends from any web browser or mobile device …
Jabber / Google Talk
Although this field says “Jabber / Google Talk”, if you click on the link in this section, you will be taken to Google Hangouts.
Google Hangouts is an instant messaging and video chat platform developed by Google. It replaces three products that Google had previously implemented within its services, including Google Talk, Google Messenger (formerly: Huddle), and Hangouts, a video chat system present within Google …
Useful Tip: If you plan to run business webinars on your website using Google Hangouts, then check out this article we’ve written about a great plugin that lets you manage a business-level video conferencing platform on your WP site with Google Hangouts:
WordPress Tutorials for beginners: Your Profile: Useful Tips
Tip #1: Make sure that Show Toolbar when viewing site is enabled in the Toolbar information area of your Profile area …
Tip #2: Your user profile gives you an additional opportunity to promote your business to your site visitors.
As mentioned earlier, you can add a Nickname and/or select a different name to display as the author of your posts …
WordPress Tutorials for beginners
Once you have set this up, a link to the author displaying your specified nickname gets added to every post published on your site …
This link takes your blog visitors to the Author Archives section, where people can learn more about you (or about other authors registered as users on your site) and see all content that you (or other authors) have published …
You can insert hyperlinks and basic text formatting like bold and italicized words to enhance your author description and promote yourself, your services, products, other websites, etc. to site visitors …
To do this just add HTML formatted content into the About Yourself > Biographical Info field in your Profile section …
Tip #3 (Advanced User):How To Hide User Profile Fields
If you plan to run a corporate website, you can install a free plugin called Hide User Profile Fields that automatically hides a number of fields when activated, such as:
Color Scheme
Keyboard Shortcuts Checkbox
Toolbar
AIM
Google Talk
Yahoo IM
Website
Biography description
User Role (every new user is registered as “Subscriber”)
Congratulations! You have now learned how to change your user profile in WordPress Tutorial for beginners
WordPress is huge and can sometimes be overwhelming about where to start. As you move on to the next Page, you will have a clearer picture of where to start and progress to building a professional WordPress Site.
Using images throughout your site can help grab your visitors’ attention, generate traffic, convey your message more effectively, and make your site content stand out.
You could get some for free for your WordPress blog, however, can also present a challenge to web site owners. Not only do you need to find plenty of suitable pictures that will work with your content, but using them without proper licensing and permissions can end up getting you into a lot of trouble.
They are useful, cost-effective tools for website owners. Royalty images that are free are often not free, however, and their usage rights must be respected.
In this tutorial you are going to learn the main differences between royalty-images that are free and other types of licenses, as well as guidelines for using them on your site, and where to find good royalty images that are free that you can legally use to spice up your content pages and help make your WordPress site more visually appealing.
Where To Find Royalty Images That Are Free For Your WordPress Site
There are some differences in the types of pictures that are available online, and these differences are worth knowing about, especially before you start adding them to your content.
Some are free to use, while others have certain restrictions and are rights-protected.
Public Domain images are free to use in any way you like. For example, many images whose copyright have expired are automatically placed in the public domain.
Rights Protected images (also known as Rights Managed images) are purchased or leased for a certain period of time, and for a specific project. These are essentially rented from a photo agency or an individual photographer, with the price negotiated for a specific use. Typically, you will have exclusive rights to these during the negotiated time period for a fee, so competitors won’t be able to use the same in their campaigns. Rights protected images are traditionally used by larger businesses to purchase photography, as the cost to license these can be prohibitive to most website owners and web designers.
Royalty images that are free are typically purchased for a one-time fee, after which you can use them in almost any way you like without having to pay ongoing royalties, and these can be used in multiple projects. Unlike Rights Protected pictures, however, royalty-free are not exclusive, meaning that others can also purchase the right to use the same image on their websites.
Using Royalty Images That are Free For Your WordPress Blog
Royalty-free images are typically priced by size, where the smaller the size is purchased, the cheaper the cost. On some sites, purchasing them in bulk can also reduce the cost. Typically, royalty-free pictures can be purchased without price negotiation, or a requirement to specify what the image(s) will be used for.
Important Points:
Royalty-free images may have limitations and usage rights, and these must be respected. When choosing free or royalty-free images to use on your website, always check the image site for specific guidelines that you are requested to follow, and familiarize yourself with the site’s usage policy and any limitations placed on their use.
Don’t copy images from other websites without permission or “borrow” images from places like Google image search results. Using royalty-free pictures without the rights to do so on your site can be very costly – many companies monitor how and where their images are being used and will not hesitate to issue a DMCA takedown notice or pursue legal action against website owners who breach image licensing and usage rights.
There are many places online where you can browse and download free and royalty-free images. Below is a list of sites where you can search online:
AmazingTextures.com is one of the biggest and most popular dedicated online texture libraries in the world. This site features hundreds of high resolution textures. You can download these for free for non-commercial use, or pay a subscription fee and get access to all images for commercial usage.
Bigfoto.com offers a massive and constantly growing collection of images from around the world, including America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific, plus lots of beautiful nature photographs. You can download all pictures for free and use these for personal or commercial purposes. In return for downloading them for free, the site asks you to link back to the site. Read the site’s copyright section before downloading images.
As stated on their website: “BurningWell is a repository for public domain (free for any use) images. You are free to download, copy and use the photos you find here for any purpose. These free images were donated by photographers from around the world …”
Clker is an online sharing service where users share free public domain vector cliparts, or share public domain photos and derive vector cliparts from those photos using clker’s online tracer.
You can download free shared clipart uploaded by users as public domain content, including vector images and raster / stock photos at no cost for your projects. The site also hosts many historical images that were obtained from the US library of congress.
Creative Commons Search allows you to easily search across multiple websites for unique images that you can use on your WordPress website. It is not a search engine, however. It is a convenient way to access image search services provided by other independent organizations.
Before adding images found using this site to your content, it is important that you first familiarize yourself with the Creative Commons licenses. Different copyright owners will require different methods of attribution in exchange for using their images. In most cases, all you need to do to satisfy the copyright owner’s attribution requirements is to provide a link back to the source material.
Crestock ImagesCrestock images offer a flexible, royalty-free licence for all their images. You pay a one-time fee for the right to use them as often as you want. A number of Extended License options are available in addition to the Standard License. You don’t have to register to search and view images and there are only a few restrictions on how they can and cannot be used. Deposit Photos
Deposit Photos are a great source of premium royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vector art.
If you are a designer, advertiser, photo editor, content manager or blogger, you can find millions of high-quality photographs and vector images and download these on a pay-as-you basis, or access all images through an affordable subscription plan.
Dreamstime has a collection of over 18,000,000 royalty-free stock photos, low and hi res images, vectors & illustrations available for a very low fee.
Images are available in all popular stock photo and image themes. Additionally, web design images include backgrounds, textures, social icons and website buttons.
Every Stock Photo is a license-specific photo search engine. The site searches and indexes millions of freely licensed photos, from many sources, and presents them in an integrated search.
You can view a photo’s license by clicking on the license icon. Membership is free and allows you to rate, tag, collect and comment on photos.
Flickr.com is a free site that lets you store, sort, search and share photos.
There are lots of great images available on Flickr, but not all of them are available under a creative commons license or public domain. The terms of use and the licensing of them are established by the photographers themselves, so be sure to read the permissions carefully before using any images from the site.
If you find an image you’d like to use, look for the “Request to license” link near the license on the photo page. If you don’t see this link, you can contact the owner directly. When you contact a photographer, it’s best to include as much info as possible about the photo and how you plan to use the photo. A good way to facilitate getting permissions to use an image is to offer to link back to the photographer’s page.
Use this site to easily search and find photos on Flickr that were released under the creative commons license.
The site displays photos matching your search term. Click on any of the thumbnails to get a slightly larger image and the attribution details you will need to include for any work you produce using the picture.
If you want to edit a photo, you’ll need to restrict your search to just the licenses that allow derivatives by checking the “for editing” box before initiating your search. There is also a “commercial” checkbox that restricts search results to images with licenses suitable for commercial use.
On this site you will find photos for free commercial and private use. All pictures on this site can be used without any royalty payments as long as they are not re-sold or used in similar stock photo databases, archives or sites. The images are not watermarked, they are not reduced in size and do not have any other technical limitations.
This site provides thousands of free and premium high quality stock photos and illustrations, including many royalty-free photos for business and personal use. All the images on this website are available free of charge, for business, personal, charitable or educational use, with an option to buy larger images at reasonable prices.
Once you’ve chosen your image it can be downloaded immediately without registration. If you opt for a free image you can use it in exactly the same ways as a paid for version, so you can avoid the legal pitfalls of using images you’ve “found” elsewhere and don’t have the copyright holder’s permission to use. The most popular categories on this site are pictures of people and business pictures. The free pictures are small sized, but perfect for websites or draft printed work. If you need a larger-sized version, then they are all available to buy. As the site’s contributing artists have given their permission for you to have their pictures free of charge, you are asked to publish a credit to acknowledge the image authors where you use their image.
FreeFoto.com has over 100,000 images organized into several thousand categories. This comprehensive, yet easy to navigate site, offers images that are free for online use, with higher quality versions available for sale.
FreeFoto.com claims to offer the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet. Link back and attribution is required. Make sure you read the “Free Use Rules” on the site before using any images. Free Images UK
Free Images UK is a high quality resource of digital stock photographic images for use by all. All images in the site’s collection are free to use on websites, printed materials and anywhere you need photos for illustration and design use.
There are more than 6,000 free images in 80 categories available. The images are completely free to use, as long as you do not redistribute them to other people and provide a link from your website or a credit in printed material.
FreeMediaGoo.com offers free photos, textures and digital backgrounds for both commercial and private use.
The free media and free background images are provided royalty-free and can be used in print, film, TV, Internet, or any other type of media for unlimited commercial and personal purposes, without the need to provide credit or link attributions.
Free Photos Bank allows users’ non-exclusive, non-transferable license to images. Some photos/pictures posted by the site are free to use as long as you are using them for a website, book, magazine, etc.
You cannot download the photos to sell as is or modified from any source. To use the photos/pictures you must provide credit to the site on the work that you used the image in to avoid copyright infringement.
Gymp-Savvy is a copyright-free community-indexed photo archive. The photo archive at Gimp-Savvy.com has more than 27,000 free photos and images. The images and photos found in this archive come from three main sources: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Each of these sites clearly state that their photos and images are in the public domain, but individual restrictions might still apply, so check the individual image requirements carefully.
iStockphoto is one of the web’s largest and most popular sources for high quality royalty-free stock images, media and design elements. The site’s catalogue of downloadable files also includes vector illustrations, videos, music and sound effects.
iStockphoto offers millions of royalty-free files, from tens of thousands of contributing artists, at affordable prices. You pay once and can use the file multiple times. The site even offers a Legal Guarantee that content used within the terms of the license agreement will not infringe on any copyright, moral right, trademark or other intellectual property right, or violate any right of privacy or publicity.
Karen’s Whimsy offers “hundreds of scans of beautiful images from my collection of old books, magazines, and postcards. They are all from material printed prior to 1923 and are in the public domain.”
You are free to use the images, either privately or commercially. You don’t have to buy any of the pictures listed on the site, as they are all free. However, a few are available at a higher resolution for purchase.
Additionally, you are asked not to sell or give away the images themselves either individually or as a collection. And although not required, if you do find the images helpful, a link or footnote back to the source page is appreciated.
With over 1,000,000 high-quality images, Kozzi is one of the world’s largest online stock photography websites in the world. This site offers stunning high-quality images, clip art and video clips for a very low cost.
Kozzi also features free images from top artists around the world, discount pricing and over 100,000 high-quality clip art and vector images. When you download any from Kozzi, it comes with the rights to use that image for non-commercial and commercial purposes. Also, no attribution to Kozzi or any of its contributors is required.
Mayang’s Free Textures has a texture library of over 4350 free to download, high-resolution texture images. You can download up to 20 texture images per day; or access the entire image library for a low, one-time fee.
Images on this site are free to use for commercial or non-commercial purposes. You can also incorporate them into your derived work with no requirement to pay licensing fees. Your derived work must involve significant modification to the textures, however, and a credit to the site is not required, but is appreciated. Refer to the site for other terms and conditions of use associated with the images.
If you use Microsoft Office products or their Office Web Apps, you are allowed to access and use media images, clip art, animations, sounds, music, video clips, templates, and other forms of content (“media elements”) provided with the software available on Office.com or as part of services associated with the software.
The Microsoft Images and Clip Art Library provides access to many great images, illustrations and clip art. The site also provides filtering options that lets you search for illustrations, photos, animations, sound and image sizes.
Unlike creative commons and public domain images, the images in the Microsoft collection are “owned either by Microsoft Corporation or by third parties who have granted Microsoft permission to use the content.” Before downloading any images from the site, be sure to read all legal pages for the terms of use.
A morgue file is a place to keep post production materials for use of reference. MorgueFile.com contains hundreds of free high resolution digital stock photography for corporate or public use, divided into several categories.
According to the site, their purpose is to provide free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits. They are of a very high quality and completely free. A license summary for each image can be found directly below the image. Attribution is not required.
Nations IllustratedThis site contains over 7000 images taken from all over the world. They are free for personal or non-commercial use. They can also be used for business purposes, but some restrictions apply, so make sure to read all terms of use on the site before downloading images. Open Clip Art – Free Clip Art Library
This is a great place to look for free vector images, icons, or clip art to use on your WordPress site. The Open Clip Art Library offers access to over 7000 user-contributed clip art images available for both personal and commercial use.
All the clip art available in the library is in the public domain, so you are free to use, modify, and create derivative images from the artwork. The clip art search filter options are well organized and easy to browse.
This site makes over 2 million images freely available via Wikimedia Commons to be used for any purpose. As stated on the site, all images listed in Open Stock Photography come from Wikimedia Commons and as such “can be used by anyone, for any purpose.”
Image files are available under a free content license or in the public domain. There are no restrictions of use beyond those relating to use of the site’s official insignia. Licenses which limit commercial use are considered non-free.
Open Stock Photography is a mashup created to help designers find free stock photography (or public domain photography). Open Stock Photography is also a multilingual system, allowing you to search for stock photography in virtually any language.
Photo Pin is a useful site for bloggers. It uses the Flickr API to search through millions of Creative Commons licensed photographs from Flickr that bloggers can then easily add to their posts and articles.
To use the site, just search for any topic using the search box, preview the photo, and click “get photo” to download the photo as well as the proper attribution link.
PicFindr is like a search engine for stock photography. It searches the web for stock photos that are completely free to use commercially. It is a web app that helps you search several stock images, public domain and photo community sites simultaneously.
Several licensing arrangements have recently emerged as alternatives to copyright (sometimes called “copyleft”) and PicFindr makes sense of them all by helping you find images based on what you have to do to use them, whether licensed under Creative Commons, GNU, a site-specific agreement, or something else. PicFindr can even find free images you can use commercially without requiring permission or credit of any kind.
PixabayPixabay provides access to thousands of public domain images.
All copyright and related or neighbouring rights to images, uploaded to Pixabay have been waived. This means that you are free to adapt and use them for personal or commercial purposes without attributing the original author or source. Although not required, Pixabay states that it would appreciate having a link back to the site if any images are used.
Pixel Perfect Digital is a free stock photography website with Creative Commons licensing. The site provides free stock photos, backgrounds and textures.
All images are provided under a Creative Commons Attribution license. This license lets you remix, tweak, and build upon our work, even commercially, as long as you credit pixelperfectdigital.com for the original creation.
PublicDomainPictures.net is a repository for free public domain images. Download high quality royalty-free stock photos. All pictures are free for commercial and personal use.
If you intend to use an image for commercial use, be aware that some photos may require a model or property release. Pictures featuring products or logos should be used with care.
Stock Photos For Free lets you download over 100,000 completely free stock photos from around the world. The photographs cover every topic from exotic locales to talent-released people and everything in between.
There are no fees to download stock photos. Images come with a royalty free license, so you can use them in all types of media, for worldwide distribution, and for an unlimited period. You can also use them in commercial projects for free. Stock.XCHNG
Stock.xchng is one of the best places on the web to find free, high quality images for your site or blog. The site offers over 350,000 quality stock photos from more than 30,000 photographers.
You can browse images by categories or use the search feature. Many are free, provided you stick to the rules in their image license agreement. In some cases you may need to notify the artists about using their images and sometimes you need to give them credit.
You can use the images for almost anything. Restrictions are listed under the previews, next to the download button. Check each image for specific user requirements before downloading, as some images require attributions.
Note: When image search results are returned to this site, the top and bottom rows are search results from iStockPhoto. The images that are free to use are displayed between the first and last rows.
Stockvault.net provides over 40,000 free images for personal and non-commercial usage. You cannot use the images to promote a product or a service.
According to the site, Stock Vault is “a stock photo sharing website where photographers, designers and students can share their photographs, graphics and image files with each other for free.”
Additionally, the site claims that its sole purpose is “to collect and archive medium and high resolution photographs that designers and students can share and use for their personal and non-commercial design work”, and that they are in no way trying to compete with royalty free stock, but rather to fulfil the need for “somewhat” free stock imagery. Uncle Sam’s Photos
If you are looking for free photos of military, science or American history-related themes, the government is a good place to start.
Uncle Sam’s Photos provide users with an organized directory of many U.S. Government collections of free stock photos available for personal or commercial use.
Photos published on US government websites is generally public domain and free to use. Many of the galleries listed on this site state that you can do whatever you want with the photos, but some images may have restrictions and copyrights in place, so read the site’s terms and guidelines for using images before downloading or adding any images to your site to avoid problems. Unprofound
This site aims to simply provide photos for your ideas, with no catch. You can download and use any of the images on this site for free, in just about any way you like, and without registering, in exchange for providing a link back to the site whenever you use one of their images.
You may not redistribute photos individually or en masse, as photos, to any other websites or offline buyers. The photos themselves remain the intellectual property of their respective owners and you are merely receiving permission to use them in your designs, your art, and your personal and professional projects.
Photos are organized by basic colours, except for white, which is more of an “everything else” category. The site also provides a simple search engine that allows you to do basic searches. Unrestricted Stock
Unrestricted Stock provides unrestricted high quality royalty-free stock images, videos and vector graphic image resources, including icons and hand drawn images that you can use in just about any way you like.
Images from this site can be downloaded and used free of charge.
WikiMedia Commons is a media file repository that makes available to users over 18 million public domain and freely-licensed educational media content, including a large library of images, audio, and video files.
Wikimedia Commons is free. You are allowed to copy, use and modify any files freely as long as you follow the terms specified by the author. This often means crediting the source and author(s) appropriately and releasing copies/improvements under the same freedom to others. The license conditions of each individual media file can be found on their description page.
The WikiMedia Commons library can be browsed by media type such as images, photographs, drawings, illustrations or by file type like audio, video, image, etc. You can also search by license. Many on Wikimedia Commons are in the public domain, which means that you are free to use these without any attribution. Some may have a creative commons license requiring attribution. As always, be sure to check the license information below each image before adding it to your content.
Tip: If you are browsing Commons for the first time, you may want to start with Featured pictures, Quality images or Valued images.
Discover how to Get Free Images For WordPress Blog
Additional Image Resources
Below are some additional sites you can visit for free images:
ace-clipart.com – free clip art, photos, illustrations and images
Discover how to Get Free Images For WordPress Blog
Using Royalty-Free Images On Your Site – Additional Information
Be sure to read all license agreements and terms of use for each individual image that you plan to use.
Many photos found on image sites may be copyright free, but some restrictions may still apply. People have a legal right to privacy, and the use of their likeness for commercial advertising typically requires a consent agreement. If a person is recognizable in an image, a model release must be obtained before using the image for commercial purposes. In principle, if a photo is sufficiently modified so that individuals are no longer “recognizable”, it should be okay to use. In any and all cases, however, the final responsibility for the fair use of images rests on you.
Regardless of where you get your images, it’s good practice to give attribution to the image source or the image author either at the end of your article, or under the image.
Sometimes royalty-free image companies get acquired by other companies and the images may stop being available for free. Also, like any other online property, a site may cease to operate, or be taken offline.
How To Find Images Quickly And Easily
Finding the right image for your content can be time-consuming. As well as searching through the image libraries listed above, here are some smart and effective ways to search and find images online quickly and easily for your projects:
Google Images
Google scours the net indexing millions of images, and displays these its own Image Search results pages.
To find an image, first do a search on Google for a keyword or keyword phrase that describes the type of image that you are looking for (e.g. “Excited businessman using laptop”, etc.)…
This brings up the web search results. To view image search results, click on the Images link …
Typically, many of your search results will indicate whether or not the images come from image libraries by displaying watermarks …
If you find an image that you like and can easily trace its source back to an image licensing site, then great! Just visit the site and purchase the rights to your chosen image.
If, however, you find an image in the search results that you like, but the source isn’t obvious, then use the following method to determine whether the image is part of a royalty-free image collection or not.
First, search for an image on the Google Images Search page …
When you find an image you like, click on it to view the source page of the image …
You can do one of two things next… Either:
Continue clicking until you find the exact location of the image, then copy the image URL to your clipboard, or
Save the image to a temporary folder on your computer …
Note: Do not upload this image to your website. We simply need the image for the next step below.
TinEye
After downloading the image to your hard drive, go to TinEye.com …
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. TinEye lets you specify an image, and the search engine then goes out and all other locations on the net that contain images matching the one you have entered. You can find other sites that perform a similar service by searching online for the phrase “reverse image lookup”.
The next step is to specify the image you want to find matches for in TinEye. You can either upload your image or enter an address.
For this example, let’s upload the image we saved earlier to our hard drive.
Click on the Browse button to upload an image …
Locate and select your image file …
TinEye will then go out and search the net for images that match the one you have specified.
If the search returns multiple results, chances are that the image you are looking for was sourced from an image library. If you scroll through the results, you may find the original filename, or even the actual library URL …
The final step is to visit the image library URL and purchase your chosen image.
Note: Like anything else on the web, images may become unavailable, or even be removed entirely from sites. In the example above, for example, when we clicked on the image library URL, the image was no longer available from that location.
Pic Search is an image search service that crawls the web and indexes them. Its search engine has indexed more than 3,000,000,000 images. You can edit your search by animation, colour, or size to find what you need.
Pic Search is an alternative to the Google Image search website. It creates thumbnail images of the original and provides a link to the original page where the image was indexed from. This enables users to visit the original page and obtain the appropriate permissions to use the image. Make sure that you read the sites’ licensing terms or contact the copyright holder before you download or use any pictures.
Wikipedia images are sourced from the Wikimedia Commons library, which is listed above in the stock photo library section.
An easy way to find free images for your content, therefore, is to search Wikipedia for a keyword or phrase related specifically to the topic of your content, and then click on any that you like on the results page. Information about licensing and using that particular image will then be displayed.
Photo Shoot is a directory that shows you where to find thousands of royalty-free images that you can use for commercial purposes.
The guide focuses on helping you find images that you can legally and safely use for any commercial purpose without watermarks, usage limitations or hidden fees.
Photo Shoot includes a master list of over 200 websites that host free-public domain and royalty-free images, a guide to licensing, how to use images for SEO, Free tools and resources you can use to get the most our of your images and more!
WP Quick Picks is a convenient and time-saving WordPress plugin that lets you access over 50,000 stock images from within your WordPress administration area, then resize and insert the images directly into your posts and pages.
The stock images returned by the plugin’s internal search database are all from the public domain and high quality.
For more details, go here: WP Quick Picks
Instant Infographics Presence
Infographics are large graphics that display statistical information on various aspects of a particular topic, subject, or niche.
Instant Infographics Presence is a web-based, easy-to-use, drag-and-drop tool for creating professional-looking infographics. It includes over 500 graphic images and templates that you can easily modify to create a professional-looking infographic in minutes.
Outsourcing the creation of infographic images for your business can be very costly. If you plan to use infographics, this useful tool can help you eliminate these costs.
For more information, go here: Instant Infographics Presence
Additional Video Tutorials
The videos below show you how to get business logos created cheaply, how to convert images to vector graphics and how to create a mascot image to help brand your site …
Video: Where To Get Business Logos Created Cheaply
Your logo brands your company, so you will want to make sure that you have the right logo. In this video, you will learn how to create high quality logos for $10-$20 or less …
Video: Upgrading Images To Vector Graphics
Typically, when using graphic images, increasing your graphics to a larger size than the original size causes the image to lose its resolution. This video shows you how to get your images professionally upgraded to vector images very cheaply …
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WordPress is huge and can sometimes be overwhelming about where to start. As you move on to the next Page, you will have a clearer picture of where to start and progress to building a professional WordPress Site.
Let’s suppose that your website promotes a particular product or service, and you decide to provide your site readers with more useful information about your industry to better engage your visitors.
For example, let’s say you provide accounting services, and decide you’d like to keep your readers informed about the latest tax rulings, current news and updates from the taxation office, or provide corporate or small business tax tips, etc.
To add the above information to your site would require not only researching and writing the content yourself (or hiring someone to perform these tasks for you), but also checking your source sites regularly to make sure that your information is being kept up-to-date.
That’s a lot of work, especially if you are trying to keep up with information that you have no control over.
There is an easier way to do this.
It’s called RSS …
What Is WordPress RSS Feed Link?
RSS stands for Rich Site Summary, or, as is more commonly known, Really Simple Syndication. It can also be referred to as a “feed”, or “Newsfeed”.
It allows content publishers to automatically syndicate their content, so that their site readers can read it without having to keep revisiting their site to check for updates.
The feeds are also used by websites to publish frequently updated information, such as blog entries, news headlines, audios, videos, etc., which users can then subscribe to.
WordPress RSS feed Link can read using a web-based, desktop-based, and even mobile-based software programs called an “RSS reader”, “feed reader”, or an “aggregator”.
The readers are used to access and find new content published on the website, and distribute this content (and any new updates made to the content) to other sites.
Essentially, an RSS feed is a structured XML document that includes full or summarized text along with other metadata such as published date, author name, etc.. It allows people to subscribe to content on a website and then keep up with the latest updates posted on that site through a feed reader. Conversely, it also enables publishers to syndicate data automatically.
Once a user subscribes to a website’s feed, they no longer have to manually visit and check the website for updated content. Instead, their browser will constantly monitor the site and update the content automatically on the user’s feed reader.
Many sites and software applications also allow you to combine different RSS feeds to receive news and updates from several different sources.
There are different kinds of feeds, read by different readers. Some of these include RSS, Atom and RDF feeds. All of these formats, however, use a standard XML file format to ensure compatibility with different machines and programs.
In this tutorial you are going to learn how to find your WordPress RSS feed, how to use this to get your content syndicated online, and how to display someone else’s content on your site via their RSS feed.
Watch the video below and then complete the step-by-step tutorial to learn how to use your WordPress RSS
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Feeds
Content syndication is a very powerful and legitimate way to share content online. They provide a way for other online users to keep up with the latest information posted on different sites.
First, let’s take a look at the concept of “syndication”.
Newspapers use syndication to publish content from other news agencies around the world. Syndication allows newspapers to deliver stories to their readers from all around the world and keep them up-to-date on the latest news, without actually having to employ and post reporters on every location around the planet …
Newspapers syndicate their news stories using news “feeds”…
Most sites actually want you to syndicate their content. Syndicating content not only allows great information to be shared, but it also drives visitors back to the site that published the original content being syndicated. This creates links that drive traffic back to their site.
Newspapers and major sites, for example, will have a section (look for links that say “RSS” or “Newsfeeds” in them) …
Clicking on the site’s RSS link brings up a list of RSS feeds giving you access to different content sections of the site …
Each of these RSS allows you to access specific information from different sections of the site (e.g. Business news, entertainment news, technology news, etc.)…
Note that a feed is simply a URL. All you need to do to view a feed’s content, is to copy the URL, and then paste it into a feedreader – i.e. An application that can read and translate it into readable content.
The Benefit Of Using WordPress RSS Feed Link
Adding someone else’s content to your site obviously benefits them by giving their site additional exposure online, but it also allows you to add value to your site without having to create new content.
For example, as mentioned earlier, if you are an accounting firm, you could display the latest news from the Tax Office on your site simply by adding their feed to your site.
You can use feeds to display a range of information such as news, Facebook statuses, or content from other sites on your WordPress site using RSS Feeds and the WordPress RSS widget.
While adding an RSS on your WordPress site from another site is a great way to add content to your site without having to create it, it’s worth keeping in mind that you also want other sites to use YOUR content …
Your WordPress RSS Feed
WordPress automatically publishes feeds of all your posts, allowing others to easily syndicate your content on their sites.
Depending on your WordPress site’s theme, there are a number of ways to get your WordPress site’s RSS feed:
1) You can scroll down to the Meta section of your sidebar and click on Entries RSS …
2) You can also find links and/or buttons on certain themes that allow your visitors to copy your RSS.
In the screenshot below, for example, you can copy the site’s RSS by clicking on the “Subscribe to RSS” link …
3) On other sites, you can find the RSS by clicking or copying the link on a button …
4) You can also view your WordPress site’s RSS by typing your site’s URL into an internet browser and adding “/feed” after the URL, e.g.:
http://www.yourdomain.com/feed
Or, if your site has been installed in a subdomain (e.g. “Blog”)
http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/feed
Clicking on any of the above links will bring up your WordPress RSS feed page …
Note: You can specify how many items you want to show in your RSS page, by going to your Reading Settings section and selecting the number of items to show in the “Syndication feeds show the most recent” field …
Adding A Feed To Your WordPress Site
In the example below, we are going to add content from a website to your WordPress site, and display it on your site’s sidebar.
First, copy the RSS from the site containing the content you want to display on your site …
Next, paste it into a WordPress RSS widget …
The content will now display on your sidebar …
What if you want to add content from an RSS to a post instead of the sidebar?
You can do this using plugins.
For example, you can use a plugin called WP-o-Matic …
The above plugins are useful if you want to add content to posts, or “Autoblog” (An Autoblog is a blog with content that is automatically gathered and compiled from RSS feeds). Note: The above plugins require some configuration – visit the plugin sites for instructions.
There are also a number of autoblogging software solutions that can create posts on your site using feeds and imported content.
Autoblog is an easy-to-use plugin that can be set-up in minutes, with no coding required and no complicated instructions. Just copy and paste in your feed URL, give it a name of your choosing (for admin purposes) and select a blog that you want it to post to.
Additionally, you can use a plugin like RSS Includes Pages if you also want to include pages in your WordPress RSS and not just posts (by default WordPress only includes posts in your RSS feed) …
Useful Tips
Tip #1 – WordPress Comment RSS Feeds
In addition to displaying RSS feeds of your posts, WordPress also displays RSS feeds of comments posted on your site.
To view these, locate your Meta section on your sidebar (note: this section may not be visible on some themes), then click on Comments RSS …
All comments posted on your site by visitors will appear in the Comments RSS page …
Note: If the Meta section is not displaying on your theme, you can view the Comments RSS section of your site by opening up a browser and typing in the following URL:
http://www.yourdomain.com/comments/feed
Or, if your site has been installed in a subdomain (e.g. “Blog”)
http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/comments/feed
Tip #2 – Displaying Category RSS Feeds
You may find that some visitors come to your site because they are interested in a particular content category. Asking them to subscribe to your site’s feed to be kept updated, may not interest them if they feel they are going to get a whole lot of other content that they are not interested in.
If your site publishes content in multiple categories, you can easily offer them a separate RSS for each category.
WordPress automatically allows you to create a category. All you have to do is to use the format below:
In other words, all you need to do is take the URL of your category …
And then add the word “feed” in front of it …
Your category RSS URL will now contain only content assigned to that category …
You can now create an “RSS Feed” page that allows your readers to subscribe only to content in the categories that interest them, just like the big websites and newspapers …
All you need to do is take an RSS button image like the one shown below, link it to the URL of your category, and then create a table or a list of all category feeds and insert it into a new WordPress page …
RSS Feeds – Additional Notes
RSS feeds can be customized in a number of ways, such as adding images to feed, etc., but many of these require editing code.
WordPress provides a number of RSS configurations, however, that do not require code editing skills. Below are examples of some of the types of feeds you can display on your site by simply knowing how to structure the feed:
Below are the feed types, descriptions and feed examples shown in the table above:
Feed Type: All Posts
Description: Content feed – includes your latest posts
Example Feed: http://yourdomain.com/feed/
Feed Type: All Comments
Description: Comments feed – includes the latest comments posted on your site
Example Feed: http://yourdomain.com/comments/feed/
Feed Type: Individual Posts
Description: Includes the latest comments made on a specific post
Example Feed: http://yourdomain.com/title-of-your-blog-post/feed/
Feed Type: Archives
Description: Day – includes latest posts in each archive
Example Feed: http://yourdomain.com/2013/10/04/feed/
Feed Type: Archives
Description: Month – includes latest posts in each archive
Example Feed: http://yourdomain.com/2013/10/feed/
Feed Type: Archives
Description: Year
Example Feed: http://yourdomain.com/2013/feed/
Feed Type: Search Results
Description: Includes latest posts for a search query
Example Feed: http://yourdomain.com/search/term/feed/
Feed Type: Custom Post Type
Description: Includes latest posts for a custom type (e.g. Book)
Example Feed:http://yourdomain.com/feed/?post_type=book
One last thing…
It’s a good idea to let your visitors know about your site that they can subscribe to your feed…
Keep in mind that other sites will only syndicate or subscribe to your content, if the information that you provide is useful, educational, informative, entertaining or adds value to their visitors. For great content ideas, see this tutorial.
Congratulations! Now you know how to use your WordPress RSS feed, and how to post content from someone else’s site on your own site.
WordPress is huge and can sometimes be overwhelming about where to start. As you move on to the next Page, you will have a clearer picture of where to start and progress to building a professional WordPress Site
The WPTrainMe is a plugin that gives WordPress non-technical users instant access to hundreds of detailed WordPress step-by-step screenshot tutorials from their own WordPress admin dashboard.
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You could get a professional website set up for your business that could cost you thousands of dollars on set up and regular management expenses and also keep you reliant on the assistance of digital services such as web site developers, site designers and webmasters …
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The Not So Great News …
Although there’s a lot of content on the internet with regards to working with WordPress, nearly all of it is disjointed and comprises largely of online tutorials and helpful hints suited for computer savvy web users such as web developers. You could end up spending hours, days, even weeks or months searching online to get information, yet still find yourself confused.
And then, of course, there are a lot of things that YOU DON’T KNOW about WordPress! Things like easy methods to configure WordPress to bring more targeted traffic auto-magically to your site or blog, plus time-saving strategies, software and methods you can employ (quite often without cost) to deliver your company BIGGER, BETTER, and FASTER results, and a whole lot more!
There’s really been no comprehensive step-by-step learning system that you can easily follow to learn how to benefit from, manage and expand a digital presence quickly and effectively as WordPress, especially if you are not technical-minded … until now!
The Very Good News …
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WPTrainMe Features
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Useful Tips
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WPTrainMe Support
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RSS Feeds – Additional Notes
