Introduction
You may have been on other websites and when viewing their webpages, you may have seen a few images in amongst the text. Images are fantastic to help break up the article and also to provide visual references to the topic.You may decide to use imagery on your website too, for example,for writing a new blog article.
Before you can start using these, unlike text they cannot simply be copied and pasted onto your pages or posts. You will need to upload these first to what is known as the ‘media library’. Fortunately this is straightforward to do!
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Accessing the Media Library
Upload new content
Reviewing extra details about your uploaded content
Deleting content
Get in touch
Accessing the Media Library
Before we begin, it should be noted that it is not just images you can upload. You can upload certain other types of content such as PDFs or text documents, although images are by far the most common.
You can upload the following:
- Images (.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, and .ico).
- PDFs.
- Word documents.
- Excel spreadsheets.
- PowerPoint presentations.
- Adobe Photoshop documents.
To access the media library, login as normal and on the left-hand menu, select the option for Media. You can then click on ‘Library‘, which will display all the uploaded in a table overview. You can then add or remove content which we will outline below.
Upload new content
To upload new content, select the option for ‘add new media file’ at the top. This will open up a field where you can click on the button for ‘select files’. This will open up your PC and you just need to find where your new image is saved. Once found, click on it and it will be added to the media library.
Upon successful upload, you will see your new content in the table listing in the top-left as the most recently uploaded content.
Once your content have been uploaded, you can then insert them into posts or pages.We will explain this in dedicated guides for posts/blog articles and webpages.
NOTE: There is a limit to how large your files can be. This is so nothing overly large can be uploaded and cause a drain on website resources. A warning will display if your file is too large. If this is the case, you may need to use a file compressor before uploading. If you need further assistance, please contact our Support Team.
Reviewing extra details about your uploaded content
When you’ve uploaded content and see it in the listing, if you click on it you will bring up extra information about it.
You probably won’t need to know about these details although one area you might be interested in is the ‘file URL’. Whenever you upload any content, a specific link will be created for it, even if it is not used on your pages.
For example, if you uploaded a document and only to share it with select people without actually adding the document elsewhere, you can take the file URL and share it with them.
Deleting content
It is probably a good idea to do some housekeeping from time-to-time by removing content that is no longer needed, helping to reduce the amount of content in your media library.
To delete specific content, click on it’s listing. In the information displayed, scroll down to the bottom and you will see a link in red for ‘delete permanently’. Click that to remove file.
A message will appear informing you that you are about the premanently delete the content and that this action cannot be undone. If you wish to carry on, press ok to remove.
NOTE: be aware that if you delete an image, it will be removed on all pages/posts where it is used and you may end up with a ‘broken image’ box as shown in the below example. You will then need to edit that post or page and remove the ‘image’ box from there and save.
Get in touch
We trust this guide explains the media library and how to upload new content. Should you have any questions, please get in touch at: support@practiceweb.co.uk