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A Free Manual for Nonprofits

  • About
  • Search
  • WordPress Basics
    • What is WordPress?
    • Creating Content
  • Types of Content
    • Pages
    • Posts
    • Media Items
  • Content Management Basics
    • Write for the Web
    • The Perils of Poor Formatting
    • Help People with Disabilities
    • Linking to External Sites
    • Linking Within Your Site
    • Adding Images
    • Adding Documents
    • Adding Videos
  • Content Management Mastery
    • Editor Tips and Tricks
    • Linking to Email Addresses
    • Linking Within a Page
    • Redirecting Links
  • Administering Your Site
    • The Admin Bar
    • Managing Users
    • Managing Menus
    • Backing Up the Site
    • Updating Your Software

Media Items

Overview

Media items are another type of content that WordPress lets you manage. These are normally files that you will include in the body of a post, page, or other content type.

Following are examples of media items:

  • an image in JPG, PNG, GIF, or SVG format
  • a PDF document
  • A Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document
  • An MP3 audio file
  • A video in MP4 or MOV format

The WordPress file uploader supports many other file types. The WordPress Codex includes a complete list of supported types.

Managing media items

As seen throughout this online user guide, you will normally upload media items to your site directly on the post or page that will include the item.

For example, as discussed in Adding Images, if you want to include a photo on your About page you’ll normally upload the photo while editing the About page.admin menu - media library

However, you can also add, edit, and delete all media items from a central location: the Media > Library menu.

In the media library you’ll find all media files that have been attached to a page, as well as those that have been uploaded but not attached. You can view a summary of these items in either a listing format:

media library - list style format

or a grid format:

media library - grid style format

In either format, simply click an item to edit its details.

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Nonprofit WordPress by Andrew Giesler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://nonprofitwordpress.info.