How To: Use WordPress’s Image Editor

December 22nd, 2009 by dreamsburnred Leave a reply »

WordPress has recently received a new feature image editing.

New users will not know how to do this so I have made a video on how to edit an image easily in WordPress.

Enjoy icon smile How To: Use Wordpresss Image Editor

For those who can’t view video here is a text description.

  1. Either from media, or from the uploaded image tool select the image.
  2. Click on edit image.
  3. Note: Crop is auto selected.
  4. Edit the image as necessary (rotate, crop etc).
  5. For cropping you need to drag your mouse over the area you want to edit.
  6. Then click on the crop icon.
  7. Then click on save.
  8. The edited image will be saved.

The process is the same for self hosted word press blogs, or blogs at wordpress.com

Note: After an image is inserted into a post it cannot be edited. You have to remove the image, then go the insert image, media library, select the image, and then edit it.

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9 comments

  1. Good post, so many people don’t bother to edit pics etc, just goes to show how easy it is!

    Well worth a re-tweet

  2. DWAYNE says:

    Man oh man – you really opened up my eyes! The Internet has so much information, I get so caught up in so many different directions, it so hard to figure it all out. Thanks again for the post!

  3. This new feature saves me about a minute for every pic I upload. Being able to skip using another app for basic image editing is a big help!
    .-= Gabe | freebloghelp.com´s last blog ..Factors contributing to blog failure =-.

  4. Justin says:

    Thanks so much for posting this. In my autopilot mode of blogging, I hadn’t even noticed this was on their. It will definately save me time!
    .-= Justin´s last blog ..Have a Very Merry Christmas!!! =-.

  5. strantheman says:

    This new image editor is crap compared to the Scissors plugin.

    No watermarks, no saved image sizes / ratios, and a step backwards.