Documentation:UBC Content Management System/Adding Images and Media

Here are the steps to adding images and media to your WordPress pages:

1. From the Dashboard, click Pages on the left-hand menu bar.
2. Select one of the pages to edit. (Or, view any page/post and click Edit in the admin menu bar.)
3. Below the page/post title, click on the Add Media button. (see image at below)
   • Insert Media window appears.
4. Choose Upload Files if the image is not in your site yet, otherwise, find the desired image in the window and skip to step 6.
5. Click the Select Files button. From your computer, select an image and click Select (OK on a PC). Or, you can drag and drop files into the upload area.
6. Enter a caption, a description of the image, and select an image size to be displayed on your page. (Note: the default is Full Size). Click Insert into Page.
7. When you have finished formatting your page or post, click Update on the far right-hand side and visit your site.

To add images and media to posts, you can follow the same steps as above and apply them to posts.

How to replace a file without losing the url structure?

1. Activate the "Enable Media Replace" Plugin (Help: How to enable a plugin)
2. Navigate to the file that you want to replace.

   By going into Media > Clicking on Edit link of the file that you want replace. Hint: use the search function if you have many files.

3. Then 'Upload a new file' and you are done.

See Also

• Hyperlinking images to other pages/websites