WordPress: Visual QuickStart Guide, Third Edition

9. Working with Media

In This Chapter

Using the Media Library

Editing Images

Creating and Managing Image Galleries

Using Audio and Video Files

Putting It All Together

Video, audio, images . . . how do you manage them all? With the Media Library tools included with WordPress, keeping track of all of these components is a breeze. The Media Library lets you upload and display audio files, videos, and images.

In this chapter, we’ll show you how to upload and manage your media. We’ll walk you through the process of creating an image gallery to showcase related images, and we’ll talk a little about the pros and cons of using a third-party service like YouTube to host your video content.

Using the Media Library

The WordPress Media Library is the ...