The Image Uploader — Now With Captions

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bloggers love to share their photos and images with each other, so
perhaps it shouldn’t have come as a surprise that when we removed the
boring, old image icon that you wrote to us lamenting its disappearance.

But if you haven’t noticed already, there’s nothing to fear, for in
its place is the Add an Image button in the Media Toolbar, which has
been around for a bit but is now more robust than ever — making it the
only thing you’ll need to add and organize photos.

Among its newest features is an easy-to-add caption tool. Just write
your caption in the caption field before inserting an image and, voila,
the caption displays below the photo inside a tasteful frame.

Adding an Image and Caption

Image as it Appears in the Post

To add captions to an image you’ve already uploaded, select the
image in the Visual Editor and click the landscape icon for Edit Image.
You’ll be presented with the Image Editor, which lets you resize,
realign, edit the title, add a caption, and change the image link URL.

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The Image Editor

Prefer the HTML editor? There’s a shortcode* for it, too.

*(Check out this page of the FAQ for a definition of “shortcode” and a list of more handy embeds.)

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Posted: Thursday, July 24th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Filed under: Features.