This Article Is For:
- All users who have access to: Manage Pages or Manage Blogs
- This is applicable to: All Themes
Note
- Stock images can be used only if the author has been attributed. The attribution will be automatically created in the caption field and will be inserted with featured images, header images, and single images inserted onto pages/blogs. For all other pages, please ensure you manually include the attribution caption. SoCast does not recommend downloading these images to your computer
- If you use a stock image in other areas of the website, such as a feature rotator, the image used needs to also be used on the destination page/contest/blog that the feature rotator links too, and needs to be accredited properly. For more information, please see: https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
These instructions are for accessing and adding a stock library image to a blog post.
Step-by-step guide
- Log In at: Admin.socastsrm.com
- Go to: Website>Blog & News
- Create a new blog
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After creating all the content for your blog, click the [
Set Featured Image
]
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In the media popup window, click on the
[Stock Image
] link at the top
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Once in the stock image window, use the ‘search terms’ box to search for a stock image. Click the [
Search
] button
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Image results for your search will be returned.
- To use one of the images, click the [ Select ] button
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The image selected will now appear in the ‘edit image’ window.
- You may edit the title, caption and add media categories
- Photo credit is automatically filled in beside ‘caption’
- However make sure that the auto filled photo credit from Flickr remains in the caption field for legal purposes if editing
- Once done editing, click the [ Select ] button
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The image will now appear under ‘Featured Image’
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You can also ‘crop’ the image by using the blog cropping tools below. Once done click [
Publish
]
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Your ‘featured image’ will now show up with the auto-filled photo credit/caption in your blog post. It will also be added to the media library.