WordPress is designed to look for images in an uploads folder inside the wordpress install. If called-for images are not there, they don’t show up on your WP pages. Simple as that.
Right below the section in WP where you make your post entries, there is a section called Upload. You can browse to a file on your computer, select it, enter a title and description and by clicking Upload, said file will be transferred to the uploads folder.
Caution: The upload function merely uploads the file, with its given title and description, but it does not put said file into any post until you use the img tag to specify its placement.
What if you’d like to use FTP to upload images directly from an image editor program? I prefer to use a separate file transfer program so that I can bulk transfer several images at one time. Once my images and files are optimized for the Web I’ll use an FTP program to transfer them all at once.
How to assure you’re transferring files to the right directory so they’ll be seen on your Web pages? Check your absolute and relative path names.
Posts that use relative urls may or may not work fine, but the same relative url on a category page or archive page probably won’t work at all. I came across this discrepancy where images in my posts were visible, but the same images (which I knew were definitely there) did not show up on the same posts when viewed via category pages or archived pages. The relative path could not find the images one level up.
Using an absolute file path to the image will definitely work on posts, pages, archive pages and so on. For a local WP install on my Windows Vista, I use absolute filenames like so, http://localhost/wordpress/img/image-filename.jpg, and for WP installed at the root of a Web domain like so, http://domain.com/img/image-filename.jpg .
Using FTP to upload images to an images directory is pretty easy. FTP is a feature of many design programs and several free or shareware standalone FTP programs are available on the Internet. Features are similar across the board. Basically, you drag files or images from the local side of your screen (left) over to the server-side of your screen (right), or highlight the files to upload and click a right-pointing-arrow to move the files from your local machine to your server.
Much faster than using a browser to upload files, FTP is a handy tool that no webmaster can do without. What FTP program do you like to use and why?
Thanks and useful tip.But I would like to give a separate sub domain for my images directory because that will help in site performance.
Can you help me with it?
Hey Harsh,
I’m curious why there would be better site performance with your images in a subdomain. Can you please give us a little insight here?
That’d be great! Thanks for chiming in!
i have some problem with upload image via FTP, the image not show on media library
how to fine this issue
Hey blogging tips,
Have you tried the browser uploader or are you using a separate FTP program for uploading?
You might want to check the directory file structure to make sure that you are FTPing files to where you think they are going and try it again.