Display Your Photos In Style
Our team loves photography and we hope you do too. While taking countless photos in Quebec, we thought it would be an appropriate time to update the image templates for all of the WordPress.com themes.
If you are using galleries or inserting one image at a time into your posts, you can take advantage of the updated image templates. Make sure to click the Post URL button in the Link URL area when inserting your images or configuring a gallery. When you do this, the images will then link to the image attachment page.
When viewing an image attachment page:
- The image will automatically be displayed to fit the content width of the theme.
- If set, a caption and description will display beneath the image.
- Small thumbnails with links to the previous and next image are shown.
- If the image is part of a gallery, the title will provide a link back to the gallery permalink URL.
Redoable Lite Image Template
White as Milk Image Template
Free Access to Premium Images
We all love adding great images to our blog posts, and today we’ve enabled a new WordPress.com Shortcode that adds millions of available premium images to the mix, all for free.
The Shortcode is for a service called PicApp, which offers up to the minute sports, news, and celebrity images from some of the top photographers and agencies throughout the world.
Looking for that shot of Eli Manning of the NY Giants throwing a perfect pass during this weekend’s NFL game ? A search for “Giants” brings up a few good ones:
What about a photo for your political post about Obama:
Or do you need a recent photo from Stella McCartney’s fashion show in Paris this week?:
To add these and other great images, just locate the “For WordPress.com” Shortcode when viewing an image on PicApp and paste it into your post:
Here is also a brief video overview of how it all works:
The related-images strip you see embedded at the bottom of each photo links to pages on PicApp.com that help support the photographers and agencies involved with these images. For more details on the related-images strip, modifying the image size, and how to copy the WordPress.com Shortcode, please read the documentation in our support area.
And for self-hosted WordPress sites, be sure to grab the plugin at WordPress.org.
