How to Add an Image from Your Computer to Your WordPress.com Blog

You can easily add an image or photo to your WordPress.com post from your computer's hard drive. If you have an image saved on your computer, just upload that image by using WordPress.com's Add Media toolbar:

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Log in to your WordPress.com account.

Your main WordPress.com page appears.

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Click the Add an Image button, the first button on the Add Media toolbar.

The Add an Image window opens.

Click the From Computer tab.

The From Computer window appears.

Click the Select Files button.

A dialog box opens, letting you choose an image from your hard drive.

Browse to and select an image to upload, and then click Open.

The image is uploaded from your computer to your Web server. WordPress displays an Image Options box when the upload is finished.

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Click the Show link to the right of the image thumbnail.

A dialog box appears that contains several image options.

Type a title, caption, and description of the image in the appropriate text boxes.

Unsurprisingly, the dialog box offers a Title text box, Caption text box, and Description text box.

Type the URL you want the image linked to in the Link URL text box and select an option for how the image works as a link.

Select None if you don’t want the image to be clickable, File URL to allow readers to click through to the direct image itself, or Post URL to allow readers to click through to the post that the image appears in.

Select how you want the image to align from the Alignment drop-down list.

Select None, Left, Center, or Right.

From the Size drop-down list, select how large you want the image to appear.

Select Thumbnail, Medium, Large, or Full Size.

Click the Insert into Post button.

The HTML code needed to display the image within your published post is inserted automatically. The media uploader window closes and returns you to the Write Post page.