Easily uploading and displaying table of labeled photos (images) with thumbnails
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Hopefully the title says it all. I’ve spent the past few days searching for an easy way for my daughter to add photos to her blog.
There have been many posts about how frustrating slow it is to upload multiple images (such as 10 at a time). Also, even after uploading, it seems that it is impossible to alight images into neat columns and rows without using HTML. Finally, after manually positioning the photos using spaces (gasp!), it seems that one can’t actually label the photos (with a title appearing below each image).
I’ve seen the other forum postings, such as en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=979&replies=12#post-4943, but it doesn’t answer my question, and I really want to avoid HTML manipulation — plus it seems like creating thumbnails and linking to the full sized images would be a pain.
I’ve read that there seem to be a lot of plugings for wordpress.org users (such as wppa), but of course we are on wordpress.com, and I would really like to not have to set up my own wordpress.org installation (although I do already have a server up for business that we could use).
What I’m trying to find is some way so easy that even a kid (or inexperienced person like me) can:
1. Upload multiple photos at once2. See all the uploaded photos in a form so that they can be quickly labeled all at the same time
3. Be able to change the order of the photos
4. Have thumbnails automatically generated (user specified size would be great!)
5. Insert the thumbnails into a user specified table (no borders, adjustible minimum spacing, most likely 2 or 3 narrow columns, with the lables displayed under each photo.
6. Have each thumbnail link to the full-sized image.
It seems like there should be an easy tool to do this for wordpress.com accounts, but I can’t find it. A great model (to me) is pbase.com. They let you upload any number of photos all at once either with multiple browse fields, or by zipping all the photos together and uploading the .zip (which is awesome!)
I’ve thought of two solutions (other than learning html and uploading one by one two versions of each photo (thumbnail and full sized) — which isn’t going to be happening!):
1. Figure out how to ftp photos up to our wordpress.com account (is that even possible?), and then use MS Word to put reduced sized images of the photos into a table. Then hyperlink each image to a link for the full sized image that we uploaded via ftp. Then all should work when we post the blog, right??? (Re. Word: hey, it works fine for us, and is great practice for my daughter (using MS Office) though I realize that many don’t recommend it as a blogger)
2. Upload everything to pbase, create the table of labled photos that I want, view source, copy the table section with the photos, and paste into the “code” area of the write blog part of wordpress.com. Drawbacks: the files are now hosted on a paid account at pbase (smaller than free account at wordpress.com!), and I can’t figure out how to make the font sizes smaller for the photo labels.
3. Note: I’ve looked at flickr, but don’t like the layout, and besides, I want to keep all the images hosted at wordpress.com. And of course it doesn’t seem to solve any of my issues re. tables and lables.
Sorry for the length, I was trying to be specific!
Any ideas? Am I missing something here? -
argentinajournal,
wordpress.com is not customizable enough for anything. you either have to make do with what it has, or move somewhere else.
despite the limitations of wp.com, i am working on my image blog here. cos i like being here.
learning html will help you, but things won’t change much because of the way wp.com operates.
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Thanks sanjidabd,
I was hoping that the community would have some better ideas for me with how to deal with having more than just one photo / picture / image per upload. -
You can use a table (image in one cell and title or description in the cell below it), just make sure that when you create the table that it is fixed to a width less than the maximum width of the post area.
There are several online table makers that will create the table html code for you and then you can insert the images (thumbnails) and descriptions in the visual editor after inserting the table code while in the code view. I’ve used this one and it works quite well.
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thesacredpath,
I tried using the table as you suggested, and in edit mode it seems to work. However, as you can see from the more recent test post on the site, the labels get messed up when the post is saved. That is, when edited, the labels are typed under each photo, and look great centered. However, when that post is saved, it seems that the editor throws away the break I had after the photo (in order to type the label below the photo, within the same cell).
am I doing something wrong here?
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Tables are a little strange sometimes. Put the captions in a separate row of cells (in the same table) below the image rather than in the same cell as the image and it should take care of the issue for you.
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