disable jpeg compression

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  wubster · Member · Dec 4, 2013 at 7:39 pm

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  Hi ..my jpegs seem to have gone tiny (through some sort of default compresssion I can’t undo).
  I’ve read something about functions.php files but can’t find that in my blog edit options. Any advice ? Thanks, wubster

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  justjennifer · Member · Dec 4, 2013 at 7:53 pm

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  WordPress.com users do not have access to the underlying PHP files. Every image uploaded here is compressed by 10%, but that would not make them “tiny.”

  Can you give us a direct link on your site to where you see this happening, starting with http:// to make it clickable?

  Images in your Media Library are thumbnail images regardless.

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  wubster · Member · Dec 4, 2013 at 8:02 pm

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  hello justjennifer…thanx for speedy reply. I’m on
  http://6xpr.wordpress.com/6x-worked-for-5-constituency-example/
  the jpegs used to fill the page width -now only about a fifth (pretty much unreadable)…but if I click on them, they’re there, large and legible…but you can’t scroll through- you have to exit each time, which is frustrating.
  Cheers

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  justjennifer · Member · Dec 5, 2013 at 7:33 am

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  Looking at the source code for your page, it looks like you’ve inserted those images one-by-one at “Medium” size and linked them to their media file.

  You can do a couple of things to make those images more readable and more navigable for your site visitors:

  1) go back and edit the page to remove the images.

  2) Reinsert the images one-by-one at medium size but linking to their “attachment page” and not “media file”. Your visitors can then read the larger “slide” in the attachment page, which can be navigated by using the previous and next links there.

  3) alternately, reinsert the images at “full size” linking to “none”. This option will put the full size images on the page but will involve a lot of scrolling down the page to read them all.

  To understand the above options better, I recommend reading Panos’ (another forum volunteer) write up on the image linking options http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/images-the-three-link-options/

  4) You can also insert your images using the Gallery feature. This again will make an unreadable thumbnail image or smallish square image, but clicking on it will open the full image in the Image Gallery Carousel, if it is enabled in your site’s Media settings, or attachment page, if not.

  If you don’t want to straight away mess with the page that is published, try these options out on a test page instead.