Text wrapping, Balasana theme

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  stfwebaccess · Member · Jan 2, 2021 at 2:34 am

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  What is the best way to wrap text alongside a photo?

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  fstat · Staff · Jan 4, 2021 at 2:22 pm

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  Hi there,

  You can wrap text around an image by following this guide:

  https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/paragraph-block/#inline-image

  There’s also the Media and Text block which puts an image and some text side by side.

  Media & Text Block

  Finally, you can try the Columns block which gives you more control over the placement of text, images, and other elements.

  https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/columns-block/

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  stfwebaccess · Member · Jan 4, 2021 at 10:28 pm

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  Many thanks for your reply.
  1. The Inline image option is not satisfactory, because it doesn’t wrap text, as such.  It places an image in a line of text, and leaves a big gap above it, the height of the image inserted.
  2. The ‘Media and Text block’ kind of works, but, again, is not a wrap as such.  It actually separates the image and text quite significantly.
  3. Similarly for the Columns approach.

  So, in the end, I’m thinking there is no actual text wrap option, eh?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jan 4, 2021 at 11:31 pm

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  Try an image block, then click and drag it to move it inside a paragraph block.

  You can then resize it following the steps at https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/image-block/#resize-images and the smaller you make it, the more text will wrap.

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  stfwebaccess · Member · Jan 5, 2021 at 1:37 am

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  Thanks for reply. Yes, your idea should work, in theory. But the fact is, in this theme at least, the click-and-drag option is not available!

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jan 5, 2021 at 4:30 am

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  This does not depend on your theme. The theme only controls how your site appears when viewed in a browser, and has no effect on how the post editor works.

  Here is a short video of the steps, which I recorded using the editor on your own site:

  https://d.pr/i/75F11J

  I’ve left that draft post saved on your site so you can play around with this.

  Make sure to also change the image’s alignment to either left or right-aligned. If you use any other alignment setting, the text won’t wrap even if you resize the image.