Some of our blog visitors are visual people and having a photo or 2 in our blogs can make the blogs more exciting to these visitors.

In many instances, we can use a photo that is on another website. The steps to insert an image from an URL are as follows:

Step 1: Locate the URL of the photo image

• Place the mouse at the photo image and
• click the right button of the mouse to access the short-cut menu.
• Select View Image option to see the image and URL of the image.

Step 2: login and go to Edit Post screen.

Step 3- Add the external photo:

• Place the cursor to the location in the blog that we want to insert and then
• click Add an Image.
• Click “From URL” menu.
• Now, we can add the URL of the external photo, a title and the correct alignment.
• Click Insert to Post to complete the adding.

Step 4 – View the post to verify that the photo is displayed.

Here is the video of how to add an external photo to a blog

In our last blog, we show how Google Web Fonts can be used on a Joomla website. This blog will show how to use Google web fonts through WP Google Web Fonts plugin.

There are 4 simple steps

• Step 1: Login as an admin
• Step 2: Install WP Google Fonts through plugins menu
• Step 3: Select font(s) and tag(s) using settings
• Step 4: verify the font on the web pages

The below video will show these 4 steps. One caution is that you should use only 1 or 2 web fonts. Using too many web fonts may hurt your website speed.

Links:

• Google font API: http://code.google.com/apis/webfonts/
• Google Web Fonts Libary: http://www.google.com/webfonts#ChoosePlace:select
• Use Google Web Fonts on a Joomla website

We decided to have breadcrumbs for our WordPress website. It is because we want the website to be more usable. And breadcrumbs can positively affect the SEO of a website.

After trying several breadcrumbs plugin choices, we decided to use Breadcrumb NavXT Widget plugin because we felt it is simple to use.

To use BreadCrumb NavXT Widget, one also needs to install Breadcrumb NavXT pluggin, in addtion to install BreadCrumb NavXT Widget. If a person installs both plugins correctly, both will be listed in the list of active Plugins, like the below image.

plugins list of WordPress

Please refer to the link at the end of this post about how to install a plugin.

The next step is to deploy the breadcrumbs. Click Appearance at the Admin Dashboard; and click Widgets. Then drag the BreadCrumb NavXT Widget from the left to one of the Widget areas on the right column. Below is an example of the Widget Area of the Twenty Ten 1.2 theme.

Next, one should view the home page to verify that the breadcrumbs is visible. Below is an example of the breadcrumbs with Brunelleschi theme.

Suggested Reading List

• How do breadcrumbs affect search engine optimization by  Optimum7.com
• Install a WordPress plugin by wpbeginner.com