I have not upgraded my blog to Wordpress 2.6 yet, but after installing WP 2.6 on some of my clients’ blogs, I had a complaint from one saying that there was no “Insert/Edit Image” button as there is in Wordpress 2.5x. I checked it out and sure enough, that lovely image button was gone. I researched this a bit and found out that whether it is by accident or some specific reason, Wordpress has indeed removed this button.

This creates a problem for those who use custom themes and have upgraded to the 2.6 version. The images don’t align properly!! In order to fix this, the easiest way is to go into the default themes’ stylesheet and find the image and image caption section and copy it into your own stylesheet.

As I have already done this for one blog, the code you need to add to your custom stylesheet is

/* Begin Images */
p img {
padding: 0;
max-width: 100%;
}

img.centered {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

img.alignright {
padding: 4px;
margin: 0 0 2px 7px;
display: inline;
}

img.alignleft {
padding: 4px;
margin: 0 7px 2px 0;

display: inline;
}

.alignright {
float: right;
}

.alignleft {
float: left
}
/* End Images */

/* Captions */
.aligncenter,
div.aligncenter {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

.wp-caption {
border: 1px solid #ddd;
text-align: center;
background-color: #f3f3f3;
padding-top: 4px;
margin: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
-khtml-border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
}

.wp-caption img {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0 none;
}

.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 17px;
padding: 0 4px 5px;
margin: 0;
}
/* End captions */

That’s it! The “new” and only way to add images is through the “Add Media” bar which is somewhat slow for some and annoying for many, but at least now it will do what you tell it to do. I will be keeping touch on how to add that “Add/Edit Image” button because if I’m going to upgrade to 2.6, it will definitely be a button I will need.

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