All media files, such as images, video, audio and documents, that you’ve ever uploaded to posts or pages are listed in your media library.
This is where you can manage all existing media files or upload new files (Media > Add New) directly to your blog without having to start a new post.
Blog Storage Space Allowance
Your Storage ‘Space Used’ displayed on your Dashboard is based on all the files ever stored in your media library.
Storage space allowed on free Edublogs blogs is 20 MB and on Edublogs Supporter blogs is 5116 MB (5 GB).
If you plan to upload numerous audio, video or large files to your blog you will need to increase your storage ’space allowed’ by becoming an Edublogs supporter.
Please note: Deleting posts or pages won’t reduce your storage space used!
Managing Files Using Your Media Library
By default your media library displays all file types. You can choose to view images only, audio only or video only by clicking on the appropriate link.
Alternatively you can filter media types by date or search media files using specific keywords.
Hovering your mouse over a file name brings up the Edit, Delete, and View action links below the title.
Edit
If you click Edit, the Edit Media page loads, allowing you to change the default Title, Caption, and Description. It also shows the file URL location.
After making any changes remember to click the Update Media button.
Delete
Clicking the action link Deletes removes that file from your blog and deletes it. Be careful! Once deleted you can’t undelete a file.
If the file you delete was in a post or page, it will no longer be available for your readers. For example, if you delete an image that is being used in a post then the image will no longer display in the post.
View
Clicking the action link View opens up the file in a post on your blog.
Uploading Files Directly to Your Media Library
By clicking Add New on the Media menu you can upload image, audio, video and other files to your Media Library without having to start a new post.
This is handy for uploading files that you want link to using text widget or links widget in your sidebar.
This method can be used to upload any file provided:
- It is an allowed file format Allowed file formats on Edublogs Include: jpg jpeg png gif doc pdf mp3 ppt wmv mp4 xls ins isf te xbk notebook m4a ist kmz kes mov flp avi swf wxr xml wav fjsw docx pptx xlsx xml m4v max kmz zip
- The file is not larger than 20 MB
- You have adequate blog storage space available
Here is how simple it is:
- Click on Add Media
- On the Add Media page click on the Select Files button
- Locate the file(s) on your hard drive
- Click Open to start uploading the file
- You will see a progress bar appear for each upload.
- While your file(s) are uploading you will see a progress bar.
- When a file has finished uploading, you will see a Show link on the right.
- Clicking on the Show link will allow you to edit the Title, Caption, and Description for a file
- You can also copy the File URL location
- Once you’ve completed all edits click Save all changes
