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© 2011 Effortless eBook Writing Blog
Most of you know that I have a product. It is the Effortless eBook Writing Course. I really love that course and I am very proud of it. But I’ve stopped promoting it because I wanted to focus on other things first. This post is not about the course of course. I just wanted to tell you about a problem I faced when I wanted to create a page about it here on my blog. I wanted to insert some thumbnail images into that page. The problem was that the thumbnails looked really messy. This is how they looked:
I used to insert the first image, choose the thumbnail size and then set the alignment as “Left”. After that, I insert the second and third images and set the alignment as “Center” and “Right”. Logically, the thumbnails should look like this:
But for some reason they didn’t look like that at all. At that time, I didn’t know what to do because I was ignorant about the amazing options WordPress offers. I had no choice but to center all images. They looked like this:
Now that I know a bit about WordPress, I have another solution for this problem. It is inserting a thumbnail gallery. I am going to show you how to do that now.
- Upload your images
- Click on Save All Changes
- Scroll down and choose your Gallery Settings
- Click on Insert Gallery
Click on Save all Changes and then scroll down to find this:
You should link the thumbnails to the image file so people get to see the original images when they click on the thumbnails. For the gallery columns, I prefer to choose 3. You can of course choose the number of columns you want based on the design of your blog theme.
Once you insert the gallery, publish the post or page and visit it. This is how the gallery would look like:
This is way better than the previous look. The thumbnails are decently presented and they link to the original images. I didn’t know about this gallery option before. It is so useful. I thought you can do this when you install a thumbnail gallery plugin or something like that. I think there are still many unexplored options in WordPress…
Some of you might be aware of this option. I just want to share what I learn with those who don’t know about it. 
Thank you for your time and attention and as always, I hope you’ve learned something new today.
Have a great week!
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Hey Mouh,
I didn’t know that either! Thank you for sharing this with me. I learn something new every time I visit. I’m going to have to do a post just so I can try this out. Way too cool my friend.
Hope you’re feeling better! Have a good week!
~Adrienne
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So you’re like me. I didn’t know it exist either. Sometimes WordPress can surprise us with amazing and hidden options.
I do feel better now. Thanks a lot!
Mouh
Hi Mouh!
I’ve been working with WordPress for a while but still from time to time I open new features and options. And today you opened another one for me. Thanx for that!
Glad I could help, Luke! I do believe there are a lot of features and options in WordPress that we are not aware of.
Thanks for stopping by!
Mouh
Oh so helpful.
I really like your site Mouh. It has some seriously helpful info, I shall return! But in the mean time thank you for this tip, I have had this exact problem in the past and just went around it by creating an entire image in illustrator.
This way is much easier!
I once did that too! But from now and on, I’ll only use this amazing feature.
Thank you so much for the kind words. I really appreciate that and I’d be more than happy to see you here again.
Mouh
Once again, Thanks Mouh. I don’t have the time pr patience to search for amnswers or figure out how to use WordPress images like you did.
I appreciate it.
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I am glad you like the post, Justin.
I am going back to your post because I have a question for you.
First, sorry for the spelling errors in my comment. It was late last night when I wrote it.
And I just answered your second comment. I hope it answers it.
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It’s fine Justin. It happens to me all the time.
I’ll go check the answer. I am really eager to know what happened. I know you have a lot of experience in that area.
Hi Mouh. Thanks for sharing about the things on how to insert thumbneil in your word press. I must also try to make this one and see better result in wordpress thumbnail. Your tips would be a great idea. Thanks for sharing the steps to do it.
I am more than glad you like my post and explanation. I love to hear that from you guys. It makes me happy.
Thanks for stopping by Tracy.
Hey Mouh,
I am aware of this feature. Once I utilized it for putting a few pics I had taken while I was on vacation and the gallery thing really helped them to be placed easily on the blog
http://aks-blog.com/2011/02/11/learning-about-customer-satisfaction-while-on-a-vacation/ .
I love this feature of wp.
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Checked the post. They look GREAT! That’s a proof the feature is just amazing!
Thanks a lot for telling us about the post!
I love this feature as well!
Mouh
Thanks for this info. I found your blog to comment section, may be I’ll try to explore this on my site.
Don’t mention it, Elpidio.
Enjoy using the feature. 
Mouh,
Great little tip here. I did not know how to make this seemless photo gallery input through wordpress, so great share.
Appreciated,
Steve
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Glad you learned something new here.
The feature is really great and soooo helpful and yet we didn’t know it exists!
Mouh
Hi Mouh,
That’s really a nice feature at word press. This would surely help for picture driven postings or to display information as sequences by photos. Though I did notice this tool I haven’t tried yet at my postings.
Thanks for sharing the nice tip.
Very true. It would be helpful for marketer who use their blogs to promote products. They can display different screenshots using this amazing feature. Our friend Ashvini used the feature in this post:
http://aks-blog.com/2011/02/11/learning-about-customer-satisfaction-while-on-a-vacation/
It looks really amazing on his post.
Maybe one day you’ll use this feature on your post. Photo would look great on your blog.
Have a great day!
Mouh
Yeah this sounds good Will give it a try. thank
I am sure you’ll find it useful!
Mouh
Hi Mouh
Wow I didn’t know how to do that and once again I come to your blog and learn something new.
Have you thought about putting all your fab posts into a product Mouh and either selling it or giving it away to build your list?
Your posts are always amazing and can help a lot of people.
Take care
Dawn
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I am really planning to do that. You gave me the idea before and it is on my plan.
I will do it, for sure. I am thinking about an eBook full of WordPress tutorials.
I am soooo happy to read that my post are always amazing! REALLY happy.
Thank you soo much Dawn for your kind words and your wonderful ideas!
Mouh
Mouh,
I did not know this. I always like coming to your blog because I always learn something that I can use on my blog.
I love your posts and wait for you to put up your next one because I know it will be some tidbit of information that I can use when posting to my blog.
Once again thank you for the great information.
Dee Ann Rice
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Thank you soo much Dee Ann for your kind words. I am flattered. You and Dawn have made my day.
Thanks a lot!
Mouh
This is great to know. I wonder if it works with the other sizes for images? I have had the worst time adding multiple pics. So I did like you and just centered them all. I might go back and try this gallery insert on the post.
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Hi Judi,
I am afraid it doesn’t work with for other sizes… I don’t think it is possible to insert a gallery this way when the size is bigger than the thumbnail default size. But since you mentioned it, I’ll try to pay more attention to this and start to look for ways to do it.
Thanks a lot Judi!
I was following you all along thinking I know all this until you went to the settings – not sure I know about that because I have never really needed to put that many images into a post
Thanks for this – now to remember it in the future is another thing – ha!
Hope you are doing well!
Linda
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Glad you learned something new here.
You’re right. If you don’t need to put many images into a post, you are unlikely to discover this feature. I wanted to insert many images and I didn’t discover it before!
You can always come back to this post in the future.
I have just published another one that is related to thumbnail galleries. I am sure you’ll love it. Here is the link:
http://blog.effortlessebookwriting.com/how-to-insert-a-thumbnail-gallery-that-opens-in-a-beautiful-lightbox-window/
Have a great week!
Mouh
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Hey Mouh,
This looks awesome. Thanks a lot for sharing.
I didn’t know about this feature, and like Adrienne I have seen it before and been thinking about “how did they do that?”
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Hi Jens,
Glad you like it.
There are still cool unexplored features in WordPress.
Thanks a lot for stopping by.
Have a wonderful week!
Mouh
I didn’t know about that myself and I totally appreciate tips on how to properly do this. I love any post with graphics as examples and you made this very painless. Thank you!
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Pleased you like the post, Sonia. I love using graphics. I think they help people understand better and enjoy posts.
There are still many features on WordPress that we need to explore. WordPress is just a great software!
Make sure you read this post to avoid a problem with this thumbnail gallery feature:
http://blog.effortlessebookwriting.com/how-to-insert-a-thumbnail-gallery-that-opens-in-a-beautiful-lightbox-window/
I sure will do that thank you!
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