Beginner training on WordPress media and images presented at WordCamp Minneapolis 2016 Foundation Friday. Slides include an introduction to media and images, embeds and uploads, finding images, Creative Commons & Flickr, and managing media on your WordPress site.

2. Overview
What media can you use?
Where can you use it?
How do you get it on your site?
Editing tools
Best practices

3. Types of Media
Images
Video
Audio Files
Documents

4. Media Placement
Site header and logo
Background
Favicon
Posts and pages
Icons, buttons, & other elements

5. Media Sources
Create your own - you hold the copyright
Pay for it - you purchase permission to use
Ask for it - like “borrowing” a cup of sugar
Free sources - pay attention to usage restrictions!

6. Photo Credits For Upcoming Examples:

7. Exercise:
Download Images

8. Adding Media To Your Site

9. Media Library
Where all the media uploaded
to your site lives.

13. Exercise:
Upload Images to the Media Library & Edit

14. Adding Media to Posts & Pages

17. Exercise:
Add Images To Posts
From URL
Media Upload
From Media Library

18. Modifying Images Within A Post or Page

21. Exercise:
Modify An Image In Your Post

22. Creating Image Galleries

26. Exercise:
Create An Image Gallery

27. Adding Captions & Links

29. Exercise:
Add Image Captions & Links

30. Embedding Media
Borrowing media from somewhere else to
display on your site.

31. AutoMagic Embeds
YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, Twitter, WordPress.tv,
Spotify, SoundCloud, Flickr, and many more.
Full list: https://codex.wordpress.org/embeds

32. Insert From URL

33. Insert Using Embed Code

34. Same Result

35. Exercise:
Embed Media in a Post

36. Media Settings

40. Featured Images & Thumbnails

41. Tools to Edit & Optimize
Photoshop & GIMP
Canva & PicMonkey
WordPress Editor
iMovie / Windows Movie Maker

42. Basic Edits
Image size / file size
Watermarks, logo, and captions
Saving for the web

43. Best Practices
Give files descriptive names
Use proper attribution
Fill in Alt Text every time

44. Questions & Practice Time