Why do I need to upload the same image if I want to use it twice?!

You don’t need to upload a new image every time if you only want to to insert it into a Page or Post.

Your WordPress site will be more efficient if you ftp images and files to directories on the server external to the WP installation.

Then you can use <img> to add the same image a thousand times.

<center> is pretty nice too.

You can add the same image to a thousand different Posts if you upload it to the Media Library.

Right, that’s what I thought. So I must be doing something wrong then. At the moment I’m building a store with woocommerce and when I try to build the same galleries (using the same images) I have to re-upload them or they won’t appear. Hmmm..

Then that would be something that is specific to your ecommerce plugin or theme. I’d guess the latter.

@esmi

>You can add the same image to a thousand different Posts if you upload it to the Media Library.<

Perhaps; then again the links are stored in the database along with any meta data ( with the images in /includes ) swelling the database and giving more chance of Things That Go Wrong With Databases. Slimmer databases are happier databases.

Should a WordPress go west, then obviously the post and links therein will be useless either way; yet reconstruction might be easier if the images were not stored in the install itself. And that they are handily already up there in their own little directory.

The Old Ways are the safest.