WordPress has some pretty cool tools for managing and editing images. Inside WordPress, it’s easy to upload images, line them up, and even change them. Most new users of WordPress don’t know about these ways to edit images. Some take a while for users to figure out, while others go completely unnoticed. 

If you’ve ever wondered about images in WordPress, you’re in luck. In this article, we’ll talk about the most common image problems in WordPress and how you can fix them. Since this is a lengthy article, here is a list of the things we will discuss that have to do with images. 

How to upload pictures to WordPress? 

WordPress makes it very easy to add pictures to your comments, pages, and even places like sidebars that don’t have content. You must add the image block to the editor to upload images to WordPress posts and pages. You can also just type /image in a paragraph block to add an image block. 

The editor will show you the blocks you can add as soon as you begin typing. The image block will now be added to the editor by WordPress. You have to click the “Upload” button to choose an image from your computer and send it to the site. You can choose a picture from your media library that you have already uploaded. 

When you upload an image, the content editor will show you a live preview of the image. On the right panel, you can change many things about an image. You can add alt text to an image, choose its size, and choose its style. 

How to Center Image in WordPress? 

WordPress allows you to put images on a page’s left, right, or middle. Just click on the image to select it, and then click the “Align” button on the block toolbar. You may have noticed that some popular blogs utilize images with text wrapped around them. This is done with the help of the align function. 

You can skip the image block and use the “Media & Text” block instead. This block is made so that you can put pictures next to text. Then you can add a picture and some text next to each other. Using the block toolbar, you can also change the image or text side. 

How to add captions below images? 

You can add a caption to a picture in WordPress. You’ll see the option to add a caption right below the image preview after you upload an image. In the same way, you can add captions to images in WordPress galleries. See our guide on how to add captions to images in WordPress for more information. 

How to Put Photos in Rows and Columns? 

Users often ask us how to put photos in neat columns and rows. Say you want to share pictures from a birthday party or a trip. You can put them in a post one by one, but it will look like a long list of pictures. Image galleries are the best way to assemble your photos. 

WordPress has a built-in exhibition block that makes it easy to add thumbnail previews of images in rows and columns. Add the exhibition block to the post editor and choose the pictures you want to upload. See our guidance on creating a picture gallery in WordPress for more information. 

Create Gorgeous Responsive Image Galleries Using WordPress 

You will notice that the image galleries that come with WordPress are missing a few things. For example, they are not easy to look through. You will require a proper WordPress photo gallery plugin if you add many pictures and photos to your WordPress site. We suggest you use Envira Gallery. 

Adding beautiful image galleries that work well on mobile devices to your WordPress site makes it easy. Best of all, it adds additional capabilities such as albums, gallery layouts, social sharing, slideshows, copyrighting, pagination, password security, tagging, and fullscreen view. 

How to Add Cover Images to Posts and Pages on WordPress 

Cover images are wide or full-width pictures that can be used to divide sections of a long article or sales page. They are very interesting and make it easy for people to scan a page without getting overwhelmed by all the text. Add the “Cover” block to the content editor to add a cover image. 

Next, you must either upload the image from your computer or choose one from the media library. You can make the cover a solid color if you don’t want an image. Tip: For the best result, it’s best to use a large image. 

You can now see what your cover image will look like in the editor. You can change how the cover image is shown by using the settings on the right or the block toolbar. See our lead on the difference between a cover image and a featured image in WordPress and how to use them correctly to learn more. 

How to Fix the Problem of Featured Image Showing Twice? 

Beginners often make the mistake of putting the featured image inside the content. Once you choose a featured image, you don’t have to add it to the post editor and the rest of the post’s text. If you do this, your featured image will show up twice. Once as the post’s main picture and again as an image inside the post. You can add other pictures to your post, but your featured picture should go in the box labeled featured image. 

Is the image too Big? How to Cut Images in WordPress? 

Most pictures you take with your phone or camera are too big to upload. WordPress makes small, medium, and large copies of the original image you upload. But sometimes, you might have to change the size of the image by cropping it. 

WordPress isn’t Photoshop, but it does have some basic tools for editing images, like the ability to resize, crop, flip, and rotate images. Go to Media » Add New and add your picture there. When you’re done uploading the picture, you’ll see an Edit link next to it. If you snap on it, it will bring you to the Edit Media screen, where you will see a button to edit the image right below it. 

This will open the picture editor in WordPress. Here, you can click the “Edit Image” button below the image’s preview. This will open the screen where you can edit images. On the screen of the image editor, you will see buttons that let you do things like cropping, rotating, resampling, etc. 

How to Attach an Image to the Header in WordPress? 

In WordPress, a header image is a part of a theme. A header image can be used with many free and paid WordPress themes. The Appearance » and Customize page is where you can add your header image. 

Since it is a part of the theme, many WordPress themes arrive with their header options. Some let you set a photo background for the whole site, while others only let you set one for the homepage.