Title: Inserting pictures
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Inserting pictures

 *  [JimStuhmiller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimstuhmiller/)
 * (@jimstuhmiller)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inserting-pictures-7/)
 * Can pictures be inserted if they are located in an arbitrary directory?

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 *  [Dimitris – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support6/)
 * (@wpmudev-support6)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inserting-pictures-7/#post-5655131)
 * Hi Jim,
 * Hope you are well!
 * There is no problem inserting any picture in WordPress post or page, in fact 
   anywhere that you can use html. As long as the image is publicly accessible.
 * This code will include the image with a link to the same image – so when you 
   click it the browser will go to the image location.
    You can link to something
   else – like post, page or another domain.
 *     ```
       <a href="http://localhost/images/26well_2014_6.jpg"><img class="alignnone" src="http://localhost/images/26well_2014_6.jpg" alt="image_alt_title" width="215" height="300" /></a>
       ```
   
 * Width and height are for the showed image dimensions – you can use smaller ones
   for a image preview and link to the bigger one.
    But you will have to adjust 
   this manually, because if the proportions are not right the image will show blurred.
 * If you don’t want the image to link anywhere and just show the image, you can
   use something like this:
 *     ```
       <img class="alignnone" src="http://localhost/images/26well_2014_6.jpg" alt="image_alt_title" width="215" height="300" />
       ```
   
 * Let me know if this helps.
 * Thanks,
    Ivan
 *  Thread Starter [JimStuhmiller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimstuhmiller/)
 * (@jimstuhmiller)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inserting-pictures-7/#post-5655175)
 * Thanks, Ivan, for the fast response. Actually, I didn’t quite state my problem
   clearly. I have several Word Press sites for various blog and other stuff. Many
   of them use pictures I’ve uploaded. I’d like to put the pictures at one place
   on my website and then use them in various WP documents. I know I can upload 
   a picture to each WP site and then use it many times on that site, but can I 
   upload pictures to a non-WP directory and then link (if that’s the right word)
   to the pictures from my various WP sites? When I try use a picture I seem only
   to have the choice of picking from the database of pictures I’ve uploaded.
 *  [Amin – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support2/)
 * (@wpmudev-support2)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inserting-pictures-7/#post-5655241)
 * Hey there JimStuhmiller,
 * Hope you’re well! 🙂 Working with Ivan here.
 * You can use image came from external resource / website. You just need to enter
   the full url of image into this field ( after you click the ‘Add Media’ button):
   [http://prntscr.com/5rl7dr](http://prntscr.com/5rl7dr)
 * As you can see on this url: [https://sandbox0001.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/external-image/](https://sandbox0001.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/external-image/)
   that the image embedded came from imgur.com.
 * [http://prntscr.com/5rla4p](http://prntscr.com/5rla4p) = [http://i.imgur.com/9tbl1P3.png](http://i.imgur.com/9tbl1P3.png)
 * > When I try use a picture I seem only to have the choice of picking from the
   > database of pictures I’ve uploaded.
 * Yup, cause those are the images that wordpress have full control.
 * Hope it helps! 🙂
 * Best Regards,
    Calvin

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