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3 Easy Sources For Finding Free Images For Your WordPress Site

By Sheila Atwood · Comments (0)

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

Free images are a boon for WordPress blogs. As you know we are very visual people. Images on our sites grab attention and make the site more interesting. WordPress makes it easy to upload images to your blog posts. It is easy to find free images for your site.

3 great sources for finding free images.

Creative Commons Search: http://search.creativecommons.org/

“Do not assume that the results displayed in this search portal are under a CC license. You should always verify that the work is actually under a CC license by following the link. Since there is no registration to use a CC license, CC has no way to determine what has and hasn’t been placed under the terms of a CC license. If you are in doubt you should contact the copyright holder directly, or try to contact the site where you found the content.” CC Search

You will love this search tool. You will also love the FireFox CC Tool bar that makes finding free blog images fast and easy. Read More→

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WordPress Lightbox Plugin Doubles As A WordPress Slideshow

By Sheila Atwood · Comments (0)

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

I was starting feel like a failure when ever I went looking for a WordPress Lightbox plugin. Then I hit the jackpot with a WordPress Lightbox plugin that was also a WordPress Slideshow. The really big pay off came when I found that it was easy to install, easy to run and easy for uploading WordPress images. Whoot-whoot, a plugin that is just my style.

Yes, there is more! It is free.

You want your images to work! by that I mean you want your images to take your readers some where when they click on them. It could be to another page related to your post or it could be the perfect enlargement of your picture. That is where a lightbox comes in.

When we did the Utah Web Design for MilagrosUtah.com, I found a picture that just had to have a lightbox effect. Luckily I found a lightbox for WordPress that I did not have to spend hours trying to figure out.

Check this out and see what I mean… Read More→

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Tags : wordpress galleries, wordpress images, wordpress plugins

Uploading Images In WordPress – Tips and Tricks

By Sheila Atwood · Comments (0)

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Uploading Images in WordPress has become so much easier with the new drag and drop format. Yeah! But do you know what size and kind of image is optimum? And why you should care?

Managing your WordPress image files is an important part of making your site work like it should. Improper image uploads can make your site load slow! Slow sites make both your readers and Google unhappy.