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WordPress WordPress Theme Development Custom Post Type Templates in WordPress The Portfolio Homepage

Ryan Bent
Ryan Bent
6,433 Points
Posted by Ryan Bent
Ryan Bent
6,433 Points

Is there anything special I need do for my theme to have images.

I added images to an image folder and they are still not showing up

2 Answers

Maja B.
Maja B.
12,984 Points
Maja B.
Maja B.
12,984 Points

Where in the WordPress structure have you added your folder?

In WordPress there is a special folder for images here: wp-content/uploads

In this folder WordPress organizes uploads (an image is an upload) in its own way. Buy making a special folder for each year and within that folder a special folder for each month.

So I do not know weather it is possible to just simply add a folder (like it is possible when making non-WordPress classic HTML pages) and expect WordPress to recognise it.

Better open any of your posts or pages. Click Add media and than click Select media (you can select a huge amount of images at once). Click Upload and wait a few minutes for them to upload.

Than go to a post/page where you want a certain image to be. Select it (its already uploaded) and in there you have it displayed on the front end.

I'm not an expert. Don't know the theory and different possibilities behind it. But this is how I do it and it works.

Ryan Bent
Ryan Bent
6,433 Points
Ryan Bent
Ryan Bent
6,433 Points

Okay, great. Thank you! I'm also trying to add images to the homepage, like a logo and home page pics. Would I use the same process?

Maja B.
Maja B.
12,984 Points
Maja B.
Maja B.
12,984 Points

For the logo it is usually the WordPress theme that deals with it.

Are you building your own theme and need to know how to add logo? Or have you downloaded certain theme from the internet?

Ryan Bent
Ryan Bent
6,433 Points
Ryan Bent
Ryan Bent
6,433 Points

building my own theme

Maja B.
Maja B.
12,984 Points
Maja B.
Maja B.
12,984 Points

Hey, sorry for a late reply. As you have probably already figured it out - in this case there special things you need to do to sort of "register" your logo. But unfortunately I don't have any experience with that.

See this course: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/wordpress-customizer-api/custom-wordpress-customizer-settings/adding-a-logo-uploader (Its part of the last section of the course WordPress Customizer API). Hope it helps.