blocky, randomly placed pictures

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  jreekie83 · Member · Apr 30, 2015 at 1:43 pm

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  Why do my pictures look blocky and unprofessionally places throughout my pages? I am new to WordPress, and have moved my uploaded pictures around to try different things, but I am finding that the appearance is very random, the pictures dont “flow” the way I want, and the wordsare placed all around pictures here and there. Is this because I am using a free template? I dont want to publisize my blog until I can figure this out. Hope that makes sense, thanks! Jenny

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  timethief · Member · May 14, 2015 at 10:42 pm

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  If your images are not all the same size, perhaps you would prefer to create a gallery https://en.support.wordpress.com/images/gallery/ and use one of these styles https://en.support.wordpress.com/images/gallery/#examples-of-gallery-styles

  See here please > http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#alignment

  The alignment icons in the WordPress editor are for aligning text; they are not for aligning images. They are used to achieve wrapping text around images on either the right or left hand side, or to display an image that’s centered without text on either side of it.

  Align-left means position left, with the rest of the content wrapping around the right side of the image.

  Align-right means position right, with the rest of the content wrapping around the left side of the image.

  Align-center means position center, with no wrap-around (= the rest of the content below the image).

  If the text beside the images does not occupy the same amount of space that the image beside it does then the text wrapping will continue and the images and text that follow will have a staggered appearance.

  To prevent the staggered effect what you do is insert the following snippet of code into the Text (HTML) editor after each image/text pair:
  <div style="clear:both;"></div>