Zemanta tip: Image align in WordPress

Images are important element of each blog post as they give your reader a quick idea about the topic you’re writing about and provide an important aesthetic element that complements your content.

Today I’m going to share a few tips with you on how to position your images exactly where you want them to be in your blog post. I’m going to focus on WordPress as it’s most popular platform and also has most developed features around this, but it’s not much different for other blogging software.

In one of the previous articles, we already learned that you can insert multiple images into your blog post by using drag and drop.

But how to make them align the way you want them? Default setting for this is in our Zemanta Preferences at the bottom of your widget. Upon opening the window, you can set your default style:

But what if you want to align multiple images differently or even resize them? Lucky for us, WordPress 2.5+ onwards have a great image manipulation option in interactive editing mode. To get it these two new buttons (image properties and remove image), just click on image:

WordPress image edit buttons

Then you can click on properties button and a nice dialog will pop-up:

Modifying these properties will have direct effect on your image and will override any of previous settings, aligning the image however you want, together with the size and other things that you might have changed.

This works both on self hosted WordPress 2.5+ blogs as well as WordPress.com.

Self-hosted WordPress.org catch: if you’re using an older theme from the times before newer WordPresses your aligns might not be working for you. That’s because WordPress introduced new CSS classes: “alignright alignleft aligncenter”, that you need to have defined in your theme. There’s a great documentation in WordPress Codex on what to manually add. But you might want to consider updating your theme as you’re probably missing other great features like widget support.

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