Uploading an image to a blog post

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  musicmeg222 · Member · Feb 13, 2016 at 11:32 pm

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  I’m trying to upload an image to a blog post, but most images are too big. I uploaded a smaller image, but it still is not small enough to fit on the page along with a post. How do I do this?

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  melindahelt · Staff · Feb 14, 2016 at 12:05 am

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  While it’s best to resize your images before you upload them to WordPress, you can do some image resizing and cropping. Here’s a step by step process: https://en.support.wordpress.com/images/image-editing/

  Here’s some information on why it’s best to optimize images before you load them into WordPress, along with some resources on some free software that will help you resize images on your computer: https://en.support.wordpress.com/media/image-optimization/

  Hope this helps!