How to insert an external photo to your WordPress blog

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

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