How to Insert Multiple Images at Once in WordPress Gutenberg Block Editor
The image block in the WordPress Gutenberg Block Editor doesn’t support adding multiple images at once. But there’s a useful workaround.
The image block in the WordPress Gutenberg Block Editor doesn’t support adding multiple images at once. But there’s a useful workaround.
Biteable’s free image resizer generates perfectly sized images for all your social media channels with one click.
Discover the ideal Twitter banner dimensions, best practices, and tips for creating a visually appealing header image that captivates your audience.
If a site or service has asked you to set up a TXT DNS record, it’s usually to prove that you own the domain (or at least have authority to update the DNS records). It’s a quick and simple process–here’s how to do it on Cloudflare.
Grids is a third-party Instagram desktop app for Mac that offers a great way to view Instagram feeds as well as tools to upload photos and videos to Instagram directly from your Mac. Here’s how it works.
If you’d rather post on Instagram from your Mac than from your phone, here are the best options, including free and paid Mac apps and using a Mac’s web browser.
You can add links on top of your YouTube banner. And you can also use them to add social media icons that link to your accounts. Here’s how to do it.
There’s a lot to like about working from a home office. But being your own tech support isn’t one of the most fun. These cloud backup services offer peace of mind to protect against losing your data when your computer or hard drive fails.
Google now suggests marking affiliate links with a “sponsored” attribute. Here’s how to do it in WordPress.
There are several different methods for making external links on your WordPress site open in new tabs or windows when users click on them. Here’s a rundown of some of the best alternatives.
The NextoDI NPS-10 is a small, self-contained device for backing up photos and videos from memory cards while you’re traveling or on a location shoot. Here’s my review.
Does including image metadata affect search rankings for your overall site or image search? Maybe.
Here’s a quick snippet that displays some key EXIF metadata fields for images in Wordpress’s Media Library.
If you’re serving your site’s images from a CDN, this snippet tells Yoast SEO to register the CDN versions in its sitemap.
Here’s a quick and simple way to include external text or HTML in Wordpress posts, pages, or widgets.
If you’re using hotlink protection but want to make exceptions to allow social media services to pull images for shared links, here’s the list of allowed referrers I’ve been using.
Here’s a quick guide to moving existing redirects from Yoast SEO Premium to Redirection in Wordpress.
Here’s the snippet that disables the automatic capturing of redirects in Yoast SEO Premium.
If you’re looking to manually create WebP versions from JPGs (or any other image file formats, for that matter), XnConvert is free, multiplatform, and is especially good at handling large batches of images.
There are only a few options for compressing RAW image files. Rawsie is a new app that uses sophisticated algorithms to drastically reduce the size of those thousands of RAW files taking up space on your hard drives.
Here’s a rundown of how to use Disk Drill to scan and recover photos and videos that have been accidentally deleted from your memory card.
Wondering why Facebook looks different? Facebook.com has rolled out a new look. They’re calling it New Facebook. But not everyone’s a fan. Here’s how to switch back to the old Facebook layout.
If you need to unpublish a page to revise or publish a new one, here’s how to publish and unpublish pages in New Facebook and Classic Facebook.
Everything you need to know about Facebook profile pictures to make your account stand out.
Here are three quick and free options for taking a still from a video on Mac.
An appealing YouTube thumbnail is essential for drawing viewers to your video content. It’s your first chance to grab a viewer’s attention, and if done right, it can significantly increase your channel’s engagement.
Make your YouTube videos stand out with this guide to the ideal YouTube thumbnail size, the best file formats to upload, and more. Get tips on how to enable and use custom thumbnail images to give your videos the attention they deserve.
In addition to handling the high-power fast-charging needs of today’s devices, the RAVPower 6-Port USB Charger FIleHub has a neat party trick up its sleeve.
External SSDs have been getting smaller, with higher capacities, and cheaper. The new RAVPower Portable SSD is the smallest and most portable I’ve used yet.
The RAVPower FileHub is like a digital Swiss Army Knife, solving several connection and networking issues that you commonly run into when travelling.
You can now use a video as your Facebook cover instead of a photo. Here’s a rundown of the requirements and options to make it work.
Instagram has some useful built-in location features, but there are some quirks to how to use them and how they reliable are. Here’s a rundown.
Twitter has a built-in way to make your photos accessible to visually impaired users by adding image descriptions. Here’s how to enable and use the feature.
I’ve been testing out the Xcellon DRD-401 Four-Bay hard drive enclosure as a large local storage for backing up photos. Here’s my hands-on review.
Instagram is designed for mobile devices. But that doesn’t work for everyone. So here are some options for posting to Instagram from your computer without using the mobile app.
By default, Wordpress compresses the versions of images it creates at a JPG quality setting of 82 percent. Here’s how you can change it.
You can find various apps that automatically and schedule backups of photo collections to different cloud storage options. CloudBerry is a user-friendly choice that supports a wide range of cloud services.
When you’re switching from HTTP to HTTPS, changing your domain, or updating links on your website, you may need to perform a site-wide search and replace. This can speed up the process of making changes. Here are some choices for WordPress users to consider.
Instagram doesn’t offer any built-in way to schedule posts, and it even discourages automated scheduling, but it can be done. Some options play by the rules better than others. Here’s a rundown of the options.
Discover how to effectively utilize the Instagram Archive feature to manage and curate your Instagram content without losing cherished memories.
Here’s a method for posting to Instagram from a desktop or laptop that doesn’t involve any third-party apps or installing plugins. It uses a feature built into several modern web browsers.
Uplet is a simple Mac app that let’s you upload photos and videos from your desktop or laptop directly to Instagram.
There’s a new and better way to share panoramas on Instagram. Here’s how to do it and some ways to prep the tiled images.
Instagram has added a new feature that lets you share up to 10 photos or videos in one post. Here’s how it works.
Facebook has a new feature that gives you more control over the image thumbnails for shared links. Here’s how it works.
If you’re trying to post example shortcodes in your post but finding that the shortcode is getting processed, here’s how to escape it and present the shortcode as plain text.
This simple little hack is a way to change the “Filed under” and “Tagged with” labels from post metadata if you’re using the Genesis Framework in Wordpress.
Have you ever tried using photos and images on your Facebook page? It can be frustrating. So here’s an up-to-date guide explaining what’s what, what’s where, and how big.
So you’ve shot some cool new 360 degree photos. How do you share them so other people can see them? Here are some places to start.
If you have a lot of photos in your Wordpress Media Library and are looking for a better way to organize them, the WP Media Folder plugin provides a way to create virtual collections without messing up your underlying filesystem.
If your animated GIFs aren’t animated when you embed them in a Wordpress post, there’s a simple fix.
This plugin does two things: scans your Wordpress media library for unused images and scans your uploads folder for images that aren’t in the media library.
The new NextoDI NVS2801 memory card backup device will especially be of interest to photographers shooting with CFAST 2.0 or XQD memory cards.
JPEGmini Pro promises that their proprietary algorithm can dramatically reduce the size of JPGs with no discernible loss in quality. So I put their secret sauce to the test.
I recently moved some of my sites from regular HTTP to HTTPS with SSL. Here’s are some things I learned along the way.
ImageRecycle is a cloud-based image optimization service that can shrink the size of your image files. Here’s another in my series of reviews of image optimization tools for WordPress.
Youtube is one of the few big players that support 360° video so far. Here’s how to upload and share the video footage you’ve shot with a Ricoh Theta S on the service.
So far there are only a few options for sharing the 360° videos you’ve shot with your Ricoh Theta S. Here’s how to upload and share them with Facebook.
My hands-on review of the new ColorSpace UDMA3 portable memory card backup device.
For years, there have been hard drive docks that allow you to connect naked hard drives using USB. Now, there’s a new dock with a Thunderbolt interface that claims to offer double the speed. However, it may not be suitable for everyone.
WP Smush Pro builds on the oldest of the cloud image optimization services. Here’s how the reborn version stacks up.
There are many image optimization services for WordPress that work in the cloud. I tested ShortPixel to see how it compares to other options.
Kraken.io is a Wordpress plugin and cloud service combination that aims to reduce to file size of your images in order to speed up your site. Here’s how it works in practice.
WebP is an emerging image format that is designed to create images that are visually indistinguishable from JPGs (or PNGs) but with much smaller file sizes. That in turn makes for a faster website.
Optimus is a plugin and cloud service combination that promises to dramatically reduce the filesize of your images and speed up your Wordpress site. Here’s my hands-on review.
The Digital Foci Picture Porter Advanced is feature-packed. Here’s how it stacks up in real-world use for backing up photos without a computer while traveling.
In this post, I’ll go over the best YouTube banner size to use, including some suggestions for how to make a great channel banner.
If you want your photos to look their best on new high pixel density Retina displays, here’s a Wordpress plugin to help.
The WD MyPassport Wireless is a portable hard drive that can be used to stream media to mobile devices like iPhones and iPads. But it’s also a cost-effective option for backing up your photos while traveling.
Syncovery is a program that offers extreme flexibility in where, what, how, and when to back up photos to the cloud, local hard drives, or network drives.
Memory card backup devices combine a battery-powered hard drive with a memory card reader so you can back up your photos and videos without a computer. Here’s my hands-on review of the ColorSpace UDMA2.
A hands-on review of the NextoDI ND2901 portable memory card backup device for backing up photos and videos from memory cards to a hard drive without using a computer.
If you’re moving your Wordpress site or changing its structure, here are some handy tools that help with some aspects of the migration.
A roundup of some of the best options for small, reliable external hard drives that are perfect for backing up your images while traveling.
If you’re posting images to Instagram, whether from a phone or computer, here’s my unofficial guide to photo and picture sizes for Instagram posts.
Thumbnails come in handy in all sorts of places in Wordpress. Here’s a guide to the various ways to crop an image within Wordpress.
If you change your Wordpress theme or even just tweak the layout of your existing theme, you might need to change the size of your thumbnails. Here’s how to do it.
Wordpress is a great platform out of the box. Here are some plugins that make it even better for photographers’ websites.
If you find your Wordpress site is getting overweight with oversized original photos, the Imsanity plugin can trim them down to more sensible sizes.
If you use a lot of images on your WordPress site and are serious about speeding it up, image optimization is a great place to start and can give some really impressive gains for very little work or expense.
Dropbox is primarily designed for backing up and syncing files. But it’s also a very handy way to share photos quickly and easily.
If your kids’ grandparents are all over Facebook, more power to them. If they’re not, here are some ideas for sharing baby photos with the grandparents in ways that provide a lasting memory they can hold in their hands.
Storing and backing up photos isn’t the most exciting part of photography, but it is crucial. And a cloud-based solution is now a good option. But not every cloud storage service is a good fit. Here’s a roundup of some of the best cloud storage for photographers.
Most of the time, you’ll never see your image ALT tags. But they matter.
You want your site to look good. You want it to have some personality. And you want it to be easy to read. Web fonts can help with all three.
If you’re posting images on the web there are very good reasons to keep the files as small as possible. ImageOptim makes images smaller without sacrificing quality.
Learn everything about Twitter image sizes, dimensions, and layouts for an optimized user experience and enhanced social media engagement.
Getting fuzzy images, text, or logos on your Facebook images? Facebook has closed some of the old loopholes, but here’s a tip worth trying.
There might be times you want to insert the content of one post in another post. Here’s a Wordpress plugin that does just that.
The subtitle of this book is “150 Ideas for Cutting Costs and Boosting Profits.” And that really sums up the book. Its goal is to help you think differently about what you’re already doing.
A step-by-step guide for making a custom collage for your Facebook Cover Photo with Lightroom Classic