Photos and video
Upload photos or link to them, choose their shape, make a slideshow, and add video.
Any block with a photo box lets you either upload a photo from your computer or phone, or paste a link to a photo that’s already online.
Add a photo #
- Upload: click ⬆ Upload and pick the file. DoorStep shrinks it to a sensible size for phones and saves it in the page.
- Link: paste the photo’s web address into the box and press Enter. On most websites you can right-click a photo and choose “Copy image address”.
Boxes that take several photos (Hero, Photo grid) show each one as a small thumbnail with ‹ › to reorder and ✕ to remove.
People open your page on phone data, often in a building with weak signal. A handful of uploaded photos is fine. For lots of photos, link to them instead of uploading, so the page itself stays small.
Upload quality #
Uploaded photos are resized so their longest side is 1,400 pixels, as good-quality JPEGs. To change that, open the Publish tab → Uploaded image quality. It applies to photos you upload from then on.
Shape and fit #
- Image shape crops the photo to a shape: Wide 16:9, Photo 3:2, Square, Portrait 4:5, Tall 9:16 and more. Original size keeps the photo as it is.
- Image fit (on a Hero): Fill crops the edges to fill the shape, Show whole image fits it all in.
- On a Spotlight, use Zoom, Left / right and Up / down to frame the part of the photo you want.
Make a slideshow #
Add two or more photos to a Hero block and it fades between them. Set Seconds per image. For photos people swipe through themselves, with captions, use a Slides block instead.
Add video #
| You want | Use |
|---|---|
| A sermon or YouTube/Vimeo video | A Video block. Paste the video’s normal link. |
| A short, silent moving background | A Spotlight block set to A video. Upload a clip under 6 MB, or paste a link to an .mp4 file. It plays muted on a loop, like a moving photo. |
Bulletins, flyers and PDFs #
To show a whole bulletin or flyer that people can read and zoom, don’t put it in a photo block. Use a button set to Show a photo or PDF. See Photo and PDF viewer.
Describe your photos #
The Image block has a Description box. Write what the photo shows, like “Families talking in the lobby after church”, so people using screen readers know what’s there.
Related guides #
Still stuck? Ask whoever set up DoorStep for your church, and mention this article: Photos and video.