Now I See Why the WordPress Image Align Feature Was Not Working

73 Responses to “Now I See Why the WordPress Image Align Feature Was Not Working”

1. XIII on August 13th, 2008 8:26 am

   Big doh moment, thanks for the tip. Me thinks WordPress themes seem to have a hard time keeping up with new WordPress features.

2. David Lau on August 13th, 2008 8:35 am

   Thanks, i got the same headache problem,and now it’s working~

3. Arjen on August 13th, 2008 9:34 am

   Thanks! I’m going to add these code to my theme.. have been wondering why it wasn’t working!

4. Stephen on August 13th, 2008 9:49 am

   I better go check my theme’s stylesheet. Mahalo for the info.

5. DjFlush on August 13th, 2008 10:12 am

   lol and I kept thinking this was a problem with my blog only. Thanks Daniel! It works

6. Dean Saliba on August 13th, 2008 10:39 am

   I had this same problem, thank you for the solution.

7. stetoscope on August 13th, 2008 11:07 am

   GREAT, I HAD THIS PROBLEM TOO.
   THANK YOU VERY MUCH

   (DO YOU HOW TO WRITE WITHOUT CAPS ))

8. Ellie on August 13th, 2008 11:32 am

   Thanks so much, that was an annoying problem.

9. Todd Andrews on August 13th, 2008 12:02 pm

   Wow, I’ve been coding a work-around for this for a while now. They need to make this standard with all WP themes someday

10. Brad Blogging.com - Personal Blog Tips And Blog Help on August 13th, 2008 1:10 pm

    It was so annoying adding an “float:left;” to each one of my pictures.

    Thanks for the code!

11. Annie on August 13th, 2008 3:27 pm

    AHA! That’s the problem! Thanks for sharing the proper code. Now, where exactly do I put it? I’m just beginning to learn about this stuff . . .

    Thanks!

    ~ AA

12. Rick on August 13th, 2008 4:56 pm

    I actually caught this myself. I always compare the latest default theme with the previous one. That way I catch any theme updates I need to propagate to my theme (which is based on the default).

13. Allyn on August 13th, 2008 5:28 pm

    OK, so I am the only one who does not know where in the stylesheet to put that code.
    does it matter where you put it?
    help!
    thanks,
    AL

14. Hillary on August 13th, 2008 7:22 pm

    Oh man!!! Thanks for sharing this, what a time-saver.

    Like you, I’ve been aligning my images manually. Lol!

15. Ari on August 14th, 2008 12:22 am

    Thank you Daniel, it really helps.
    @ Annie, you need to put the code at stylesheet file of your theme on the content section.

16. Michelle on August 14th, 2008 4:31 am

    Daniel, you’re an absolute star. I’ve been struggling with this issue for months!

17. David Hutchison on August 14th, 2008 4:34 am

    Thank you! There doesn’t seem to be a blogging question that can’t be answered by our supportive community – quietly working alone at home, yet I don’t feel isolated.

18. EL Locco on August 14th, 2008 4:59 am

    Yach, really I like this article. Thanks for this nice article

19. parisb on August 14th, 2008 5:14 am

    I’m wondering where to place this too? I’m using the passionduo theme and the images aren’t aligning. Thanks for any help.

20. Daniel Scocco on August 14th, 2008 8:24 am

    @Parisb, open WordPress CP, then Design, then Theme Editor, then open style.css file. Place it there.

21. pandu on August 14th, 2008 11:00 am

    oh…gosh, i always find difficulties when aligning image on my blog. you’re really ‘the daily blog tipper’, man…muchos gracias!

22. parisb on August 14th, 2008 11:04 am

    @Daniel: Thanks. I did try that immediately when I saw this tip. It still isn’t working though. Is there a specific part of the stylesheet it should go into? I’m still aligning my images manually

23. BloggerNewbie on August 14th, 2008 11:34 am

    Well No duh here cause it’s all news to me, except the part that the alignment never worked, too much of a newbie to even begin to know how to work on it. I’ll check it out and report back on my success (positive thinker)

24. Melodee Patterson on August 14th, 2008 11:53 am

    I hate to say all those hours I spent figuring out how to align my graphics were a waste, but, doh!

    Thanks!

25. Jodith on August 14th, 2008 6:35 pm

    *nods* I just had to have that fight with my theme last week (when I finally updated to 2.6 from 2.3.1). Drove me crazy getting it figured out, but I finally got it in there and can now float my text around my images.

    And there was much rejoicing!

26. خسروبیگی on August 16th, 2008 6:57 am

    Hello

    Thanks for your solution. I had this problem too and your post help me.

    Regards

27. Coder on August 16th, 2008 9:08 pm

    I never had this problem..
    Don’t know why?! LOL

28. BloggerNewbie on August 18th, 2008 7:48 am

    Daniel:

    worked! (no surprise) Saved a ton of work! Sometimes I use scribefire which lets you position graphics a little better. It has it’s benefits and drawbacks.

    Thanks. Always helpful.

29. Schrottpresse on September 5th, 2008 4:35 pm

    Thank you very much for this solution, I really was confused with all of the align functions on the button bar, none of them working ^^

30. Beno on September 8th, 2008 5:31 am

    I was doing a Google search trying to find out why WordPress wasn’t doing the right thing by default and I came across this post.

    Thank you for sharing.

31. Kristen on September 8th, 2008 7:21 pm

    OH THANK YOU! I have been so frustrated with this topic and just adding that code to my stylesheet automatically fixed my images.

    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

32. BloggerNewbie on September 9th, 2008 10:45 am

    Daniel:

    big help! got any clues on the post at a future date feature? When I set a future date, the post goes out into never never land not to be seen ever again!

33. Avigail on September 13th, 2008 7:01 am

    Hello,

    thank you for sharing. It works without any problems. I was driving me mad I thought that I can just use new wp themes, but just pasting the code into the stylesheet works!

    Avigail

34. Saeed on September 25th, 2008 12:56 am

    I have used this code to align my images perfectly on my blog. However, in the RSS feed reader, e.g. Google Reader, they still don’t float properly. Has anyone else been having the same problem as well? If so, were you able to rectify it? Please share kindly!

35. Tobias Goth on September 27th, 2008 12:21 pm

    Big Thanks! I was starting to think that my version of Wordpress was bust, but you made me think other wise.

36. Dusibello on October 2nd, 2008 1:00 am

    No joy here.

    Does the code need to be pasted into a certain section of the stylesheet file?

37. Susan on October 2nd, 2008 9:46 am

    thank you!

38. Andy on October 8th, 2008 4:45 am

    Fantastic! I thought I was going mad after the upgrade to 2.6 on my blog none of the image alignment worked for new images in posts.
    You have saved me bacon. Cheers!

39. Stefan Wurz on October 12th, 2008 6:29 am

    Yeah, really I like this article. Thanks for this nice article

40. Sebastien Page on October 28th, 2008 3:14 am

    Thank you for saving me a time. It’s been driving me nuts for an hour until I came across this post! Thanks

41. Tim on November 1st, 2008 1:50 am

    THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS.

    This was driving me insane.

42. Clone High on January 9th, 2009 4:20 am

    Thanks a ton, this is a life saver!

43. Peter Butler on January 10th, 2009 6:38 am

    Gee, I would ahve thought the new big upgrade to 2.7 would have sorted this

44. Peter on January 10th, 2009 6:50 am

    OK, I don’t get it. Pasted the code in to the css file, updated, checked the images and set the second one to the right and – damn, still the same. What is it I’m missing here?

45. Dusibello on January 11th, 2009 12:00 am

    Style.css is a long, complicated file. This code presumably should go in a certain section?

    One of the posts above says to put in ‘on the content section’??

46. David P on January 21st, 2009 1:47 am

    May you live to be 1000 years old.

47. gadget on January 25th, 2009 8:09 am

    Thanks for the tip but upon checking, my code is exactly the same as that – but it’s not aligning correctly?!

48. Tom on January 26th, 2009 7:26 pm

    Brilliant, thankyou so much!

49. Mohit on February 15th, 2009 12:21 pm

    Where to place that code in blog stylesheet?

50. Netbooks on February 23rd, 2009 6:03 pm

    Also having the same issue…I have that code but it is not aligning

51. Borino on March 2nd, 2009 10:44 pm

    Excellent. Thanks for the quick and simple fix.

52. Rodrigo on March 9th, 2009 1:39 am

    Very simple and powerfull, thanks!
    I was getting mad with the image alignment!

53. Netbooks RUS on March 17th, 2009 10:37 am

    I just can not get the silly thing to align. There must be some other code we can use.

54. Dave Haygarth on March 25th, 2009 9:58 am

    Oh I’ve been looking for this answer for AGES!!! I love you !!!

55. Mark on April 12th, 2009 8:07 pm

    Thanks a lot.. You saved me some frustration..

56. Cecil on April 14th, 2009 10:48 pm

    Sorry, doesn’t work for me. Must be something wrong with something else in my code if it’s working for everyone else.

57. Mark on April 20th, 2009 1:22 pm

    Thanks for the fix! I was searching for why my image align wasn’t working and hit this post. Works perfectly.

58. Mark on May 15th, 2009 3:26 am

    TO ALL WHO CAN’T GET IT TO WORK:

    I bypassed the stylesheet (i.e. style.css) altogether and pasted the above code into my index.php file, right before the closing tag.

    Works now. Try that.

59. Jillian on June 7th, 2009 1:13 am

    I’ve been working on a theme in editor for a while. It’s still not working for me.

60. Pieter on June 7th, 2009 2:07 pm

    Thanks! Copied and pasted in the stylesheet and its working like a charm!

61. Tom on July 18th, 2009 9:36 pm

    Geez. I wanted to drop another “thanks” your way. I missed this too, and it’s gone on for quite some time!

62. Corinne on August 9th, 2009 6:46 pm

    THANK YOU! This post is still relevant and helpful – alot of old themes floating around out there that arent updated. Thank you, thank you – and again THANK YOU!

63. Kevin on August 23rd, 2009 8:52 am

    Hi,

    This didn’t work for me, but I managed to fix it. I noticed when trying to center pictures it never worked, it kept trying to use the tag ‘aligncenter’ so I just added this to all the code provided here and put it in the style.css, and it worked. Give it a shot.

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

64. TiagoFrossard on August 23rd, 2009 11:40 am

    I’m not used to build up wordpress themes, just using the ones shared in the internet and, I must admit, this alignment problem messed with my layout for more than a yr. Thank you for helpin’ me solving this issue!

65. Rachel Rush on November 10th, 2009 12:20 am

    I can’t begin to tell you how many times I have referenced this entry of yours. Thanks for this helpful information. I manage a lot of blogs and every now and then I’ll notice that one of them, usually and older one with an older theme, needs this bit of code in the stylesheet.css. Thanks!

66. Kiley on November 15th, 2009 2:34 am

    Worked like a charm! Thanks, Daniel!

67. Aaron on January 2nd, 2010 7:31 pm

    I’m glad I found you guys. I’m having a big alignment problem that I’m hoping you can help me out with. What I’m trying to do shouldn’t be hard, but has been.

    On my page, I am trying to put a picture on the left, then writing to the RIGHT of it. I want about 9 pictures justified to the left with writing next to everyone. However, it keeps looking like this.

    http://theblankpress.com/blog/.....eds-a-home

    As you can see, it doesn’t justify to the left. I try hitting RETURN, and it looks correct in my editor, but when I press “UPDATE POST”, it gets rid of those hard returns and screws it all up.

    I’m pretty sure I’m doing everything writing. Putting my cursor where I want the picture, then adding an image, and selecting “Align Left” or clicking on the “Align Left” button. Please help? What am I doing wrong?

    Thanks in advance.

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