Struggling to rearrange order of photos already uploaded into post

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  kcreeden · Member · Oct 24, 2011 at 2:33 am

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  I’ve uploaded 12 photos into my post and now want to rearrange their order. Is this possible?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Oct 24, 2011 at 3:28 am

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  Yes of course it’s possible. If the images were small, you could do it by drag-and-drop in the Visual editor, but at the size you have inserted them you can’t do that. You can switch the editor to HTML and cut-and-paste each image code. The code for each one of your images starts with this:
  <a href=
  and ends with this:
  </a>
  If you’re scared of doing this, you can delete each image you want to move (Visual editor: click on image, click delete icon) then place your cursor where you want it to be and re-insert it there (click the Add an Image tool then click Media Library to find the image).

  A couple of other remarks:

  1) If you publish more posts like this, your front page will become awfully long. Endless scrolling isn’t user friendly, plus too many images on your front page mean your page will take very long to load: for a visitor with a slow connection, the browser may even time out before loading all the images. You should start using the more tag to truncate the posts:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

  2) The files you have uploaded are too large. But more on this after you tell us something else: your images link to the real-size originals when clicked. Is that intentional or not? If not, is it something you like or something you’d rather stop?

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  kcreeden · Member · Nov 11, 2011 at 3:47 am

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  I would rather my photos NOT link to the real-size originals. How do I stop this?

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 11, 2011 at 4:30 am

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  See here:
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/images-the-three-link-options/

  So, if you don’t want the displayed images to link to the real-size originals, there’s no point uploading huge files (the one I checked is 2592px wide, resolution 300): you’re just wasting storage space plus increasing the loading time of your page. You should make copies of your images, downsize them in an image editing application to a resolution of 72 (what all browsers display) and a width not exceeding 531px (the maximum for the theme you’re using), and upload and insert those copies.