Image Resize
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I am also having trouble with the workaround for borders. I need to remove a border from a logo that I am posting and everything that I have tried has not worked. I used the workaround exactly like Grace’s last update and put in 0px and the border is still there.
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Thanks for that, and I was really pleased to note the line at the end about ‘looking into bringing certain features back’ – please, please, please do. While the text edit workaround for borders works, it took me ages to teach one of my clients how to use the old, visual editor/advanced settings features. The thought of trying to teach them some html is making me think about running away to sea. Please save me from this fate; I’m a terrible sailor.
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Please re-introduce the old Image Editor and stop experimenting with new and silly ideas !
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To the WordPress staff:
Don’t away functionality unless you know for sure that it is not being used. I’ve been working in the software industry for 25 years and I’ve seen this over and over again, that when you redesign a feature and in so doing remove some things that users could do, users get super angry.
Really, the new way to resize images brings this functionality into the modern age. This change has been long overdue. But to then also remove the old ways of managing how an image appears in a post breaks the way that so many users (me included) have been using WordPress for years.
This isn’t a simple matter of “you moved my cheese and I don’t like it” – it’s a matter of you <i>took away</i> my cheese and I want it back.
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WP, these are your instructions on your site for using an image tootip:
Note: The title added in this field does not display as a tooltip (when a mouse is hovered over the image). To add a tooltip title, edit the image after inserting it into the post, and add your tooltip wording to the Title field.
This is the 3rd time I’ve asked about this. Is there some reason you cannot tell me how to edit all my image tooltips for the images on my blog? Do I have to forever keep what I already had because of these changes you made? And how can I add the tooltip for new images from here on out since you’ve made these changes?
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Why remove a user-friendly function? Give us back the old functionalities for the advanced image editing feature, like margin and % resizing.
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There was a NEW image resizer, I found it – see what I posted in a different thread on it.
the adjust picture size by exact pixel was in the NEW editor – I know because I found it and tested it – it was NEW code and worked fine – then it seemed like someone decided that was too easy and took it out – since it was new working code – makes no sense to me to take it out – fully half the image issues in the forum would have went away if the new size option was left working.
Why take out a new feature that was working good? it was much easier than the old change picture size
Since it was NEW code, I can only assume that it came with the new editor and was taken out to give this great leap back 15 years to need to code in html – one of the reasons I moved to the WordPress software was to get AWAY from needing to do much in html, html NOT being my native language
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dragging a “grabby handle” would cause the image dimensions to appear on the cursor. Watching those numbers allowed you to control the size to the exact pixel and made it easy to drag all images to the same size.
Glad you caught this. That was a great feature for setting multiple pix to a common size, and other uses.
On advice of a helpful Happiness Engineer, I looked at the WordPress.org News about the revision that gave us the Visual Editor Downgrade:
WordPress 3.9 Beta 1 Announcement
http://wordpress.org/news/2014/03/wordpress-3-9-beta-1/Today’s news about it, now Beta 3:
http://wordpress.org/news/2014/03/wordpress-3-9-beta-3/http://wordpress.org/search/3.9+beta
About 1,960 resultsI said before that I’d pay for an upgrade if necessary. There is one way I can prevent this kind of sudden downgrade: self-hosting.
When I install “the latest stable release of WordPress (Version 3.8.1),” I can sit still with it and not be an ignorant Beta tester, then upgrade only when I see them release it as “the latest stable release.”
Self-hosting is probably not worth the cost for my hobby blog, but in other situations it is looking more attractive than I understood it to be before this Visual Editor Downgrade.
In any case, I’ll never recommend WordPress.com again without emphasizing that the free blog users are beta test guinea pigs (and some really loudly squealing ones among us!), and that sometimes the beta can be a a big premature mistake.
I’m so ignorant. I must have ignored a beta tester role warning somewhere when I signed up.
What if a future beta does to the media library something like what we’ve seen here, and suddenly we lose the ability to manage it for a few weeks? Or the Dashboard?
Time to pay up. I got what I paid for, and it was truly great while it lasted, trusting in something I did not understand (I’m not prepared to say I was mislead, but …).
It’s not like they didn’t warn us this was a test version, sorta. In the WordPress.com News visual editor change announcement: Introducing Smoother Editing and New Playlists:
Updates coming to your self-hosted sites, too
All the new improvements we’re introducing today are part of the WordPress 3.9 release, which WordPress.com users test out first. [emphasis mine]
In my first look at that announcement, I skipped over the stuff under the heading with “your self-hosted sites.”
Doh!
No doubt I’ve been warned many times before. Double doh.
FWIW: I can’t find the words beta, test or trial in the TOS.
My thanks to the H.E. who turned on the lights. And my apologies for being ignorant and loud about it.
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As well as creating consternation amongst people who want well-formatted images in their blogs, the new downgrade is also riddled with bugs. Here are a couple more I just encountered:
- If you go into the image editor, remove a caption and click [Save], the image on screen is resized to the full size of the underlying image.
If you remove a caption by deleting it underneath the image, the image becomes screen-width. This is because the initial html statements for alignment and width disappear.@Gracejiyoung, I have a couple of questions. Please answer.
- Why have the changes to the image editor nt already been rolled back?
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More strange bugs I have just discovered:
- Resizing by changing values in text only works if you have a caption defined
Resizing using the image editor then adding a border in text (“border=”2px””) did not work. This was recommended by @Gracejiyoung above and worked for the visual view in the editor but not when published. -
So, basically, what WordPress has done is take something that was easy to use and provided a great degree of control over the way images appeared in posts, and “fixed” it.
Now, resizing is harder to use with any degree of fine-tuning, advanced editing is completely gone, and the options we’re left with only work part of the time.
At best, this is poor planning and customer service. At worst, it’s outright disregard for customer’s needs, wants, or practices. Either way, it’s certainly the fastest way to drive customers to use other solutions.
And yes, I know I can add margins, borders, and other style characteristics through the Text Editor. If I wanted to work that way, I’d just hand-code all my html myself. I use WordPress precisely because I don’t have to do that… or at least I didn’t before. Whether I continue to use WordPress for the three blogs I currently run is exceedingly iffy at this point.
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Also not thrilled about some of these changes–borders and sizing, especially. Please re-simplify!
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It is interesting that this thread is still live and equally astonishing that WP staff and friends are ignoring it.
Honestly, we might as well put our heads in a bucket of water and say “I’ll only come up for breath when you fix it” because they will just watch us drown.
This change is a test version of what will be rolled out to pay-up members so we will have to wait and see what their reaction is.
Rarely have I seen so-called software improvements so damage a product. If Microsoft screw up then they fix it immediately. Improvement is usually about progress not taking us back ten years or so.
I hope WP listen to what people are saying here but I fear that they will be too stubborn to stand down.
Eventually WP will cease to be a serious publishing and blogging platform as it continues to give priority to tablet and mobile phone users. I think we have to accept that and carry on as PC users as long as we can until we are forced to find somewhere else.
Meanwhile of course they continue to generate revenue through advertising on our posts which is fine by me so long as they give us some measure of consideration.
Anyway, we get a free product so that probably reduces our right to complain too loudly.
I really hope that they take into account the serious views and feedback expressed in this lively thread.
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Hello,
I’m still unable to remove the borders of images. Previously, I was able to do this through “advanced settings”, and setting the border to “0”.
However, with this new layout, there is no “advanced settings”, and no way to remove the image borders.
The suggestion of @gracejiyoung to add: border=”0px” in the editor does not work as of today.
Thank you,
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What did you do with my advanced settings image options? Who wants their images snugged up against their text? This looks like crap.
Should I really have to put the style=”margin:10px;” attribute in manually each time? Change it back!!!And who wants to go through this many steps to get things done when the previous interface was 2 simple streamlined pages? Your upgrade sucks!! Upgrades are supposed to make things better and easier-to-use, not the other way ’round!
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Dear WordPress I need the image advanced settings back like before !
Missing the Size width & height, border, destination URL’s settings
I need to change or add everything in the Html Text tab :(
That’s prehistoric !Please don’t ignore us, thanks
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@ramondelafuente: try this
<img style="border:none;" class="etc" title="etc" alt="etc" src="URL-of-image" /> -
yesterday, cyperezblog asked: “This is the 3rd time I’ve asked about this. Is there some reason you cannot tell me how to edit all my image tooltips for the images on my blog? Do I have to forever keep what I already had because of these changes you made? And how can I add the tooltip for new images from here on out since you’ve made these changes?”
@cyperezblog, I have also asked this question multiple times, but gotten no reply. I don’t think they plan to address this!
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