Tricks for writing text below and between images in posts

I got an email today from someone who was having trouble typing below and between images that she had uploaded and inserted into her post. She said that in the past when she tried to do this…

“several of my images were “stuck” together so I couldn’t get in between the images very well to type — and when I did once it deleted the image.  so i got frustrated.”

This type of problem is pretty common for people new (or not-so-new) to WordPress.  It’s tough sometimes to get your cursor in the right spot and type without deleting stuff or clicking on images.  Here are a few tips and tricks to make this a bit easier.

1. Increase the height of your post box (<– click the link to find out more)

2. Increase the width of your post box (<– click the link to find out more)

3. When you’ve inserted an image and want to type below it, or if you want to type between two images you’ve already inserted, put your cursor just to the right of an image, click there, then press “Enter”.  If you then start typing, you should be on a new line under that image.

4. Try switching to full-screen editing mode when posting (<– near the bottom of that post)

5. In a pinch, switch over to “HTML” mode and put your curser after the code for the image in question.  Then press return TWICE and start typing your next line.  If you then switch back to visual mode, you should be able to continue typing.

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4 Responses to “Tricks for writing text below and between images in posts”

  1. On June 3rd, 2008 at 6:46 am Cheryl said:

    Hey Jared - fixed my bio/header problems, just like you said - thanks. Have one other issue though - if my image is not 900px wide I cannot get it to center in the post - even when I am clicking on the center option, it always defaults to left, align right works OK though.

    Could you perhaps post a step by step like you did with the image sizing below ???

    Many thanks

    CJ

  2. On June 3rd, 2008 at 11:03 am Jared said:

    @Cheryl: yeah, the center option in the insert image popup window doesn’t work. you have to insert the image, then click on it inside your post box. then after you clicked it, click on the “center text” button.

    more info here: http://www.professionalphotographertheme.com/tips/how-can-i-center-my-images/

  3. On August 20th, 2008 at 6:04 pm Wilson Cabral said:

    Hi Jered,
    I’ve installed the backup plug-in and there was a problem while backing up… I end up with some 640 backups 140 mb each… so I went to the admin area and changed right the way to manual backup and using my cp_panel I started deleting all of the backups off the server. I can’t explain what happened but some other files from my public_html/blog/wp-content/backup/ got deleted. So right now if you go to our blog I’m getting a bunch of html codes. I have a backup on my hard drive however I can’t login into admin area to put it back.

    Can you give me some directions in which files are missing and if I can put them back at public_html/blog/wp-content/backup/ to have our blog working again.

    Thanks

  4. On August 21st, 2008 at 4:46 am Jared said:

    @Wilson Cabral: you don’t need anything in the wp-content/backup folder. that’s just where the plugin backs things up…

    i looked at your blog link and it seems to be working fine. did you get it figured out?

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