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Using images in WordPress app in iPad mini

1. rossamor25
   Inactive
   Dec 30, 2016, 4:08 PM

   How/ can I edit size of images, align, and create image galleries in the WordPress app on my iPad mini? It's not obvious how to ATM and I can't sit up to use a laptop ATM due to dizziness

2. Eric
   Administrator
   Jan 5, 2017, 4:44 PM

   Hi rossamor25,

   In the editor, once you've added an image to a post you can tap on the image to edit it. The edit screen will let you specify things like size and alignment of the image.

   Galleries are a bit tricky, and the app doesn't have great support for them (yet), so they take a bit of effort. You can add a gallery manually by typing a gallery shortcode, and listing the image IDs to include in the gallery. To get the image IDs, you'll need to save your post as a draft, then perform the following steps for each image you want to add to the gallery:
   - insert an image and let it upload to your blog,
   - tap to edit the image
   - on the image details screen, find the image's ID.
   - copy the id.
   - back in the editor, delete the image
   - add the image's ID into the gallery shortcode

   We want to make this *much* easier and intuitive in the future.

   Hope this helps!

3. rossamor25
   Inactive
   Jan 6, 2017, 4:22 PM

   Thanks for your reply Eric

   I've tried what suggested for alignment and sizing images and it seems ok except when I preview my post, all the images still seem to be aligned to the left and the block-quoted text isn't displaying. Would be great if I could get used to the app to work as it's much easier than working on the website in safari!

   I mean the text doesn't appear to be in block-quotes though you can still see the text. Could this just be due to the preview function?

4. Eric
   Administrator
   Jan 9, 2017, 3:43 PM

   Hi @rossamor25

   > when I preview my post, all the images still seem to be aligned to the left and the block-quoted text isn't displaying
   > text doesn't appear to be in block-quotes though you can still see the text. Could this just be due to the preview function

   Possibly. The preview feature in the app is a very simple and does not support all the styling that can exist in a blog's theme.

   A quick check shows that blockquotes are indenting for me, but when I try to align an image to the right, its still showing left aligned in the preview. That's a bug we need to fix so thanks for mentioning it!

   I'm not sure what to say about the blockquotes. Do you have a sample post I could look at?

   Cheers!

5. rossamor25
   Inactive
   Jan 9, 2017, 4:33 PM

   I haven't posted the post I was working on as it was just a practice post, playing about with app. I'm hoping my posts will just appear ok when I publish them!

   Do you mean show you the draft? I'm not sure how I could show you a draft in my app without publishing it?

6. Eric
   Administrator
   Jan 9, 2017, 11:43 PM

   Quick follow up...

   Fixing the alignment but in https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS/issues/6384

7. Eric
   Administrator
   Jan 9, 2017, 11:44 PM

   I haven't posted the post I was working on as it was just a practice post, playing about with app

   No worries! Let's see how it appears when you publish it.

8. rossamor25
   Inactive
   Jan 10, 2017, 4:31 PM

   Thanks for taking the time to address my issue with the preview function:). Am now working on a proper post, will post a link to it here when I've published it

9. rossamor25
   Inactive
   Jan 17, 2017, 4:16 PM

   This is the post I wrote using the WordPress app http://ldifme.org/2017/01/16/new-year-new-opportunity-cards-4-invest-in-me/

   All the images seem fine, I didn't use any block-quotes

10. Eric
    Administrator
    Jan 17, 2017, 8:35 PM

    Good deal. Thanks for letting us know!

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