I am trying to do a very simple thing - move a photo so it is closer to the relevant paragraph. I want the photo to be on the left side and the paragraph on the right. I try the obvious, just dragging it but the blog editor seems willful about where I can place it. It lets me split words (useless) and won't allow me to place it between two paragraphs. I can sort of get what I want by cutting and pasting the text around the photo but that is amazingly amateur editing. This isn't some crazy idea - I just want to move the photo to a specific line.
I can't believe this is so hard. I must be missing the obvious?
Phil, when you click on the photo, can you see an option bar on the top of it? Click on the one I am showing on the picture.
Then you can drag the picture to be placed where you want it to be.
Yes, I do that but when I drag the photo, it is as I described - willful. I should be able to just drag it to a location, let go (let up on the mouse button) and it should move to the location. But, I get all sorts of problems with that. Many times it simply refuses to place the image when I let go. Other times it puts it randomly (that's the splitting words point I made before). I can see a faint cursor showing drop location but it almost never is where I want and controlling that cursor is terribly difficult.
It's horrible.
In trying to explain it better, I went back and tried to move a photo. If I have several paragraphs to the right of the photo, I can't move the photo between them. I have to move it up/down to "virgin" paragraphs (ie ones with no photo next to them) and then move the photo back down to where I really wanted it.
Also, if you move the photo to left of the text column it doesn't let you drop it even though you are only doing a vertical move. It should ignore the left/right alignment of the photo since you have already specified how you want it placed.
Clumsy and unfriendly.
I still get the splitting paragraph problem even though it tries to show "good" locations for dropping the photo.
This should be easy but it isn't. I feel like I'm back in the 1990s...
I am sorry I couldn´t help you.
Thanks for trying! I do appreciate it.