Chapter 8Image Galleries and Featured Images

Working with images draws many first-time users to content management systems. After all, everybody wants to be able to change text on their posts and pages, so users just learning what content management is all about are keen to know how they can work with images on their website. To this end, just about every modern content management system has some sort of mechanism in place to address images and image galleries, and WordPress is no exception. Let’s have a look at some of the more advanced image manipulation tools that WordPress makes available to us.

Revisiting the Media Library and Media Settings

To briefly review what we discussed about images in WordPress in Chapter 2, users are able to upload ...

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