In my last post I talked about adding the Image module. I added the Image module because I wanted to add a photo to a blog post. While adding Image allowed me to upload images to the DrupNewb site, it did not allow me to add them to my blog posts. I looked out on the Drupal.org forums, and found this post (http://drupal.org/node/193156) which said that I need the Image Assist module and why. Essentially, using the Image module allows me to upload images as "Nodes" on their own. Image Assist makes it possible to add images as supporting content for other Nodes. Makes sense.

So, it was again time to download and install a module. I downloaded Image Assist from http://drupal.org/project/img_assist/. For me this was img_assist-5.x-1.5.tar.gz. Using WinZip I extracted the all of the files to the img_assist directory, and uploaded the whole thing to my server under the sites/all/modules directory.

Then I simply went into administer -> site building -> modules and checked the box to enable Image Assist (way down at the bottom of the module list in the image section).

I then created a new blog post to add an image to. I created the post, saw the link for adding an image (below the body section with the green plus image), and added an image. That went well, but instead of an image I got a bunch of code which clearly needed parsing.

So, I went to poke around in admin to see what needed to be set to allow images. In Administer » Site configuration » Input Formats I went into configure for filtered HTML. There I found an unchecked box for Inline Images, which I checked. ...and my blog images were working!