While writing my previous post I wanted to add pictures showing the screenshots of the back end of WordPress for this site so you can follow along while I make changes. It’s tough to post large photos inline because they take up a lot of space. The best way to handle this is to post the photo’s thumbnail inline with a link to the original file. What this does in a standard WordPress blog is when you click on the image you are redirected to the original file (which is the original larger version) so you can see all of the details that are not visible at the small resolution.
However, this is not the most aesthetically pleasing way to see images enlarged, enter FancyBox for WordPress. This is a great free plug-in offered to the WordPress community that takes any linked image and displays the link in a very pretty overlay. You can see it in action here:
I highly recommend FancyBox for WordPress as a very simple, clean and great looking way to share thumbnails and large images on your WordPress blog.