In this tutorial, I will show you the easiest way to add and edit gallery images in WordPress. I will also show you how order your gallery and edit the captions for each gallery image.
Navigate to the page where your gallery is located
- Log into WordPress.
- Click on the name of your website in the top left of the screen.
- Navigate to the page where your gallery is located.
- Click the 'Edit Page' link located at the top of the page.
- Make sure the 'Visual' tab is selected above your content area then mouse-click/drag the scrollbar and windows corner to navigate through the content.
How to Add a new image to a gallery
- Click on your gallery.
- Click the 'Edit Gallery' icon that appears.
- Click the 'Add to Gallery' link.
- Click the 'Upload Files' tab.
- Click the 'Select Files' button and upload your image from your computer.
Note: To keep your website fast, make sure your images do not exceed ~1000 px or 800kb. Any image editing program will allows you to manage image size. - Enter a caption for your new gallery image in the 'Caption' field.
Note: To make text in you caption appear bold, encumpass them in bold tags .
- Click the 'Add to gallery' button.
- Click the 'Update gallery' button.
- Click the 'Update' button to save the changes to your page.
How to edit/delete gallery image
- Click on your gallery.
- Click the 'Edit Gallery' icon that appears.
- Click the image you want to edit or delete.
- Edit the content fields to make changes.
- Click the 'Delete Permanently' link to delete the gallery image.
- Click the 'Update gallery' button.
- Click the 'Update' button to save the changes to your page.
How to change the order of your gallery images
- Click on your gallery.
- Click the 'Edit Gallery' icon that appears.
- Right mouse click on an image and drag it to a new position to reorder it in the gallery.
- Click the 'Update gallery' button.
- Click the 'Update' button to save the changes to your page.
How to edit the caption of a gallery image
- Click on your gallery.
- Click the 'Edit Gallery' icon that appears.
- Click the image you want to edit or delete.
- Edit the content fields or to make changes including the 'Captions' field and 'Title' field.
- Click the 'Update gallery' button.
- Click the 'Update' button to save the changes to your page.