Position photos in Pages with more control

[wilma@we2international.com]

I would like to have more control about the exact position of a photo om my pages. Is this possible? I can only put them to the left or to the right of text or with no text next to the photo. What if I want to place 3 fotos next to each other or want to position a photo just a little bit higher? Thanks again.

[Bill Robbins]

When you insert an image into a page or post in WordPress there are a few drop-down menus you’ll see. One of those if for the alignment. If you choose left or right, the text will flow around the image.

You can see an example of a right aligned image in this post in the demo (http://demo.organizedthemes.com/forward/2015/02/10/left-hand-sidebar/).

Let me know if you run into trouble. If you do, send over the url to the page with the troublesome image is located.

Thanks,
Bill

[wilma@we2international.com]

Yes I know. But sometimes I want to use more photos next to each other or position a photo a little bit higher. It just doesn’t stick on that position. It’s not a big problem, but I’m very picky.

[Bill Robbins]

Getting images to line up next to each other can be tricky. I think most of us have felt that pain before. Generally you want to make sue there is enough room for both images and their right hand margins when you’re inserting them into a page/post. You can also insert a gallery. That will cause them to line up for you.

Galleries are added via a “shortcode” which you can edit. Once you’ve inserted your gallery, click on the text tab and you’ll see something that looks like this:

[gallery ids="9,28,34,75"]

You can add a size to that to replace the default thumbnail one. The options there are explained in more detail at http://codex.wordpress.org/Gallery_Shortcode . It would look something like this:

[gallery ids="9,28,34,75" size="medium"]

To use the medium image size that WordPress auto-creates for each image.

If you’re coming from print, it can feel very frustrating. As the screen size changes, this changes even more as things really start to move around.

From my own experiences, I generally make my images either the full width of the content area I’m working in, or half width. I’ve found those tend to work better across screen sizes.

Bill

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