Inserting image from a post’s Gallery into the post

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  janusjana · Member · Oct 11, 2009 at 3:53 am

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  Hi all,

  I just started my blog, and I have run into the following problem several times.

  Steps to repeat:
  1. When editing a post, click the “Upload/Insert Image” icon and upload an image
  2. Forget to actually insert it into the post in that process, but otherwise save it
  3. Realize this, and again click the “Upload/Insert Image” icon
  4. This time, go to the Gallery tab and click the “show” link
  5. Observe the complete lack of option to insert into post

  There’s a discrepancy here with the support document, which seems to say I’d have the option to insert the image into the post after clicking “Show”:

  Working With Images

  Anyone else have this problem? I’m guessing so, given that the overwhelming majority of the votes on the latter help doc were for “unhelpful”.

  Is there any workaround besides writing the code manually (which I can do, it’s just annoying).

  Thank you!
  janusjana

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Oct 11, 2009 at 4:23 am

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  No discrepancy. Your step 4 is wrong: you need to click “Media Library” (as the info page you linked to says), not “Gallery”.

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  pommepal · Member · Oct 11, 2009 at 4:46 am

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  Not a reply but a question…
  If you download a few photos all together from your computer into a post, do you find it takes a really long time? 9 photos took almost an hour to download…

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 11, 2009 at 4:48 am

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  Entirely depends on the size of the uploaded photos.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Oct 11, 2009 at 5:06 am

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  @pommepal: And in your case they’re huuuuuge. The first one, for instance, is 4.5MB (2682 x 1731 at a resolution of 180). Don’t upload the files you get from your camera: apart from the problem you already encountered, you’re wasting your available uploading space. You must make copies of them, edit them in an image editing application to reduce their resolution to 72 and optimize them for the web, and upload those copies.

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  janusjana · Member · Oct 11, 2009 at 5:32 am

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  panaghiotisadam: thanks for the answer!

  But sheesh… that seems like a poor UI choice. ;)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 11, 2009 at 5:46 am

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  @pommepal, I explained to you exactly why that was happening in the other thread you started earlier today.

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/uploading-photos-from-computer-takes-a-long-time-to-upload-is-that-normal?replies=3

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Oct 11, 2009 at 5:59 am

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  (@tsp: Sorry, hadn’t seen the other thread.)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 11, 2009 at 6:02 am

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  @Panos, I figured you hadn’t.

  @pommepal, you can find the other threads that you have posted in either by clicking on “member” under your username, or by clicking on your username at the top of the forums where it says, “Welcome, pommepal .

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  pommepal · Member · Oct 11, 2009 at 6:40 am

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  thanks to you all I now will be able to speed every thing up.

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  pommepal · Member · Oct 11, 2009 at 6:41 am

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  First time I have used a forum so abit green. But very impressed with the quick responses….