How do I add images to my blog roll?

That’s not a blog roll…? Okay well I’m still relatively new to WordPress I saw it and I thought it was a blog roll. The Evolution of cell phones section is static text so it’s different. But thanks for your explanation though.

Are you talking about ‘featured images’ as opposed to the images you just add to your post content?

I am referring to images that appear in the snippet of the blog roll. However, Mittineague informed me that what I thought was a blog roll is not a blog roll after all.

You mean the images that appear with the excerpts? That is usually the featured image. If your theme has featured images enabled, then when you are in the edit screen for the post, down at the bottom of the right sidebar below the categories there is a place where you can set the featured image. Is that what you are looking for?

A blogroll is usually a set of links to various posts.

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That’s what I was referring to I have tried some plug ins that claim to do this but it didn’t work for me. So I thought this could be accomplished with any theme, so I may have to choose a different theme to accomplish this?

Do you see any mention of featured image on the right hand side of the edit post section in the dashboard? It should be near the bottom.

You shouldn’t need to use a plugin.

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I see it, thanks for your help, I appreciate it, I will try this.

Let us know if it solves the problem you are experiencing

Thanks for all the help, I actually got it to work but when I clicked on it to go to the blog post that image was the first thing that appeared at the top of the page. Is there a way to prevent this from happening, it ruins the layout and design of the site so I removed it.

Can you provide a screenshot or throw it up so we can see it? I have a feeling you will have to alter a wordpress template for your theme to prevent it from showing that image on the article itself.

I think you asking about slider with 2 - 3 images which is moving around the upper portion.

It only shows up whenever I add a featured image, is there a way for me to add a featured image and prevent it from showing up?

Check the settings that are provided with your theme. Sometimes there are options to turn off features like this slideshow.

I looked but I couldn’t find anything, there was only one reference to the slider that gave me the ability to turn it on or off but that was referring to the front page and I already had it turned off. There is no mention of a a slideshow, or a slider anywhere else.

As a last resort (not the best solution), you could check “View page source” and figure out what element is used for that large image. Then in your CSS add display: none as a style for that element.

I didn’t see an answer to this question, so I will ask…what plugin are you using? What you are describing is a slider. The best WP slider that I know if is Soliloquy. Some of the others have some issues. And what theme are you working with? The theme does make a difference when it comes to features.

Check out Soliloquy for WP though and see if it can be implemented on your current theme before considering switching themes.

I am not using any plugins for this at the moment, I had tried a few different plugins a couple weeks ago in an attempt to get the images to show up in my blog roll. However, I do not want a slider, I would like to be able to use the featured image feature without having the featured image appear at the top of the page when I click on it.

Thanks but I don’t know enough CSS to do this.

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