Edited to add: Niume is a writing site where you can earn a bit of passive income by publishing articles. Unfortunately, not only has the site stopped paying, it has also shut down without warning.
Adding Images to Your Niume Post
There are two kinds of images that you can add to your Niume post:1. The background or cover pic - this one shows up on top of your article before the post title. You can only have one of this kind of pic.
2. The pic inside the post itself. This can show up anywhere inside your article as long as it's below the post title. You can have several photos like this.
How to Add Pics Inside Your Niume Post?
1. Press the enter key on your keyboard while you're on the Niume post editor. This will start a new line.2. You will then see a circular icon with a plus sign on the left side of the editor.
3. Click this icon and you will see the plus sign change to the minus sign. In addition to that, you will see two more circular icons.
4. Let's focus on the first icon, the one with the pic of a camera. If you hover your mouse on this icon, you will see the words "Add a photo".
5. Click on this icon and you will be prompted to upload a photo from your PC.
Here's an example:
Other Things You Need to Know About Adding Images to Your Niume Post:
- Accepted file types include: .PNG and .JPG- There is no way to resize an image once it's been uploaded to Niume so if you want to change the size of your pic (such as making it bigger or smaller), you'll have to do it before adding it to your post.
- As part of Niume's rules, you're required to have at least one image or video on your post. I'm not sure how strict Niume is in implementing this rule as I've seen some posts that only contain text. Still, I suggest adding even just one pic to your article to make it more colorful.
- The only way to add photos to your post is by uploading it from your computer to Niume. Unfortunately, there's no way to add pics via their image URL.
- The first pic that shows up on your post and that was added using the camera icon will become the cover photo of your post. See the old guide (linked above) for more details.
The only thing that's different is that there is no more picture when you link to your post on Niume (either via the comments section of a post or another article).
- If you don't add a pic using the camera icon, but you add a background pic to your post (see section below for more details), this pic will become the cover photo instead.
How to Add a Background Photo to Your Niume Post?
1. On the upper right side of the post editor, to the right of the post title textbox, you will see the words "Add Cover" as well as a small mountain pic icon.2. Click this link icon and you'll be prompted to upload a pic from your PC.
.JPG is the only accepted file type, as far as I know (it's the only one I've tried so far aside from .PNG, which is not accepted).
Other Things You Need to Know About Adding a Background Pic to Your Niume Post:
- See this post for more details on the recommended size of your background photo- Note that you might need to resize your pic and upload it several times before you can get the proper placement. For instance, I had to do the same with the background photo of this post otherwise I'd end up with something like this:
For reference, the entire pic looks like this:
- There is no way to resize the cover image after uploading it so you will need to change or fix the size elsewhere before adding it your post.
- There's also no way to add pics by using their image URL. You need to upload the photo from your computer to Niume.
- You don't need to add a cover photo to your post especially if you already have several pics in the body of your article.
- See the old guide (linked above) for more details
How to Add Tags to Your Niume Post?
1. Choose a sphere or category for your article. You can choose from the drop-down list right below the post title in the Niume text editor.2. As soon as you select a sphere, if you scroll down to the end of the text editor, you will see several tags that you can choose to add to your post.
3. Click on an available tag to add it to your post. If it's the wrong tag, just click on the x icon to remove it from the list.
Other Things You Need to Know About Adding Tags to Your Niume Post:
- If none of the available tags match your article, don't worry because Niume's latest update has made it possible for us to create our own tags. Just type your tag on the textbox provided.As soon as you start typing on this textbox, the editor will automatically start searching for similar tags. You will then see a drop-down list of possible tags you can add.
If you see a tag that matches what you're looking for, just click it and it will be added to your article. If the tag you want doesn't show up, just type it fully and then press the enter key. This will make it show up as a tag for your article.
- There's a limit of 4 tags per post.
Changes to the Niume Post Editor Thanks to the Update:
- Before, we were stuck with having to use the available tags, which may not always be relevant to the article we're writing. Now, it's possible to create our own tags.- Before, Niume had two types of links. Now, there's only one type of link. Niume removed the link cards that allowed us to showcase links similar to Twitter Cards complete with the post title, a short snippet and even a small pic from the article.
For More Information on the Following:
- Adding a sphere to your post as well as things you need to know about the Niume spheres- Adding a title to your post as well as title tips
- Adding a video (such as from YouTube) to your post
See the old guide (linked above) for more details.
For a tutorial guide on how to add links to your posts, see this article.
For info about the Niume dashboard, see this post.
If you're having problems publishing posts on Niume, see this article.
Conclusion
All-in-all, the latest update improved the Niume rich text post editor. Being able to add or create our own tags is a very welcome change.However, it's too bad that the link cards were removed as this was a useful and cool feature.
Overall, the text editor could still use more improvements such as giving us more formatting options like being able to resize pics after being uploaded and being able to use numbered and bulleted lists and more.
Questions? Need Help?
What about you? What do you think about the Niume rich text post editor? If you have any questions about any of this, feel free to ask.Here are some of the comments from this article, back when it used to be posted elsewhere:
Linda Kaaz said on 22/2/17
very helpful information
Jim Bauer said on 9/2/17
I always find these interesting and helpful especially considering the site really does lack tutorials.
Freya Yuki replied to Jim Bauer on 18/2/17
Thanks :-). Yeah, when I was new here, I looked everywhere for tutorials and guides, but couldn't find any so I decided to write some after figuring things out.
*Notes:
- This was previously published on Niume on 30 Jan 2017 in Interesting
- Screenshots are from my Niume account
- Second pic is by hayashinomura (CC:BY-SA) from deviantArt
- Fourth pic is by hayashinomura (CC:BY-SA) from deviantArt
