How to Upload Screenshots to WordPress
How to Upload Screenshots to WordPress or discovering how to add screen shots to WordPress is easy with the FireFox plugin, but if you are like me and want to keep the plugins down to a manageable number, then here is a way to do it using FireFox but without a plugin.
- Create your Screenshot
- Create your Screenshot using Alt/PrtScr [Captures the topmost window].
- Open the WordPress post editor and click in a blank space and click Ctr/V [Paste]. Nothing will happen on your screen, but Firefox will create a file called moz-screenshot1.jpg inside your computer.
- Next, use the WP ‘Add Media’ dialog to upload a picture
and navigate to C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Local\Temp and select the latest moz-screenshot.jpg image
5. Edit the Title option and so on and click insert to finish adding a screenshot to your WordPress post.
- Mozilla FireFox Quirk
This works because you tried to ‘paste’ the screenshot into a Rich-Text Editor[W/Press], which triggers the action of Mozilla storing the screenshot in the User/Username/AppData/Local/Temp folder. This is easier than opening a photo editing program, pasting in the picture, and then saving it to a folder on your hard drive before you can do your screenshot upload.
- XP Users
XP Users will probably find the path looks more like C://Documents and Settings/Users/Yourname/Local Settings/Temp