Recently I’ve had several clients and friends ask me how to add images (and have them link to another website) on their own blog/website. This is super-simple to do using a little bit of HTML. Watch the video, read the instructions below, and you’ll be an image-adding machine in no time.
To recap, here is what you’ll need to do:
- Size/crop your image FIRST (via whatever image editing program you use) and save your sized image on your desktop.
- Upload the image to WordPress under ADD NEW MEDIA
- COPY THE URL of the image after uploading (it will be provided for you)
- Create a new sidebar “Text” widget (APPEARENCE – WIDGETS)
Then use the following HTML code for each image you want to upload (adding in your links and text of course).
<a href=”YOUR LINK HERE”><img title “YOUR TITLE HERE” src=”http://www.YOURIMAGEURLHERE.com” alt=”ALTERNATE TEXT HERE”></a>
And that’s it. Of course, things can get much more advanced than this – but this will give you a good foundation to build upon. Now go add some pictures to your sidebar/wherever you want!
