An easy way to impress people with your online Authority is to add a photo of yourself next to every online Comment post. You can easily do this using Gravatar. Posting useful online comments on other people’s websites and blogs is one of the best ways you can increase traffic to your website.  But you want the people who read your comments to think that you have what’s known as ‘authority’ in your topic area.

Add Authority to Your Online Comments with a Gravatar

Having Authority means you look and sound as if you know what you’re talking about. If you look as if you have authority, it’s more likely that readers will follow your Comment’s hyper-link, back to your own website, and increase your own site’s traffic – and that is what you want them to do. Continue reading →

You’d think that adding an image, cartoon or photo to your WordPress posts would be easy!  Well it is, but only when you know how. In fact it took me more time and head-scratching than I care to admit to, to learn how to do this simple task. Read on, for the step by step cheat sheet that tells you exactly how to do it. Here’s what I tried:

From my WordPress Dashboard I tried ‘Media’ in ‘Settings’ –  you can set default image sizes there, but no easy option to add images to your pages or posts.

Then I tried Users>My Profile and that wasn’t the answer either.  I searched for a few plugins and I didn’t find one that did the simple job of adding a photo from my computer into a post.

Finally I struck gold!

In fact there are TWO ways to add images into WordPress Pages and Posts. This is the first way – but read on for the second way – the second way (below) is actually the way I prefer to do it myself.

Method 1: On every Page and Post’s Edit window in your WordPress Dashboard there is an option to do exactly what I wanted to do.  What?  It’s not at all obvious, it really isn’t!  Honest…

Right at the bottom of the right hand sidebar of the window where you write and edit your posts is a header called Featured Image. Continue reading →