Chapter 4
Managing Media
IN THIS CHAPTER
Working with files in the Media Library
Navigating the Media Library page
Viewing and editing media files
Exploring great plugins to manage media
In Book 3, Chapter 2, I discussed the Media Settings page on your Dashboard, where you are able to set a few options on how media files are handled, including image sizes and media file organization.
This chapter takes you through how to work with media files in the Media Library located on your Dashboard navigation menu, labeled Media. In this chapter, you discover what the different options on the Media Library page can do for you, as well as how to upload and delete media files and how that can affect the traffic and display of your posts.
Finally, you discover how you can edit media files, in particular the image editing features available from within the Media Library section of the Dashboard. Book 4, Chapter 5 takes you through how to add different media files to your pages and posts, but first, this chapter gets you started on managing those media files, because the older and larger your ...
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