How to put images on blog question

[explorer]

Hello:
Can anyone give some advice on how to enter images from cpanel into a blog?

I have the images uploaded to the image file in the cpanel
when I went to edit my post I clicked on the image button, then a box popped up. I entered the url there, and the image description.

The problem is that a long blue link appears on my blog instead of the picture.
What am I doing wrong??
Thanks,
Tony

[nasph]

Tony,

You'll need to make sure that the URL is checked to make sure you are directing it to the right file in your account. You will need to ensure that is is the following:

http://www.yourdomain.com/images/picture.jpg

The /images is the images folder in your wordpress file and the picture.jpg is the actual image you want to be displayed and is contained in the images file.

Sometimes I end up putting an image into my master images file in my account, instead of the images file that is contained in the wordpress area of the blog.

[explorer]

Thanks for the answer, however that did not help,
I still do not have the image.

Tony

[hailey]

Hi Tony

I had the same problem as you. The only way I found that would work was to upload the image on the wordpress admin page just below where you type in your new post.
Click on browse, find the image from your computer and upload it. Then click on "browse all" click on your image and click "send to editor".

Hope this helps
Hailey

[nasph]

Hailey, good suggestion there, but you will need to understand how to upload things into your back-end files through ftp eventually, so you might as well know where they're stored now.


Tony if you want to provide us with a homepage URL and the image you're trying to upload.

[gmansky]

You mentioned that you have uploaded the image file through your cpanel (using file manager I suppose). Hopefully, you created a folder named images under your web root folder (typically 'www').

To troubleshoot, open your browser and type in the file on the address bar, ie http://my_domain.com/my_images_folder/picture.jpg. If the image shows up, then you got the right location. Now, copy that address and go to your wordpress posting page and click on the image button on the toolbar, and paste this address.

It should work. BTW, remember most hosting sites use linux. Make sure you are typing the name as it you have named it when you uploaded, upper/lower case-wise.