Image Resize
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A simple method I use is just to define a caption at the time of inserting the image, just “.” if you don’t want any words. The colour of the border will generally depend on your theme.
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I have two questions:
1. How do I indent the image so it isn’t sticking outside of my text? There used to be a way to add spacing around the image (horizontal and vertical).
2. How do I add an outline? There used to be a way to add a border to the image.
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@ kehrenreich With the “new and improved” image editor, those functions are gone. The only option now is to edit your HTML. Explanations of how to do that appear earlier in this thread.
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@windwhistle
I choose to presize and optimize images for the web before I upload them so I get the best image quality possible, I don’t waste my free media storage space, and I don’t need to do any troubleshooting. Consequently, these changes have had no impact on my image handling. Whew! -
Hi there,
Thanks for the feedback! Lots to read on a Monday morning! :D Thanks to all the volunteers helping out with the workarounds. We are going through the thread and updating our developers as issues arise! Just an update to the border issue – this will depend on the theme. If your theme doesn’t support what you are doing, you can still edit it via CSS.
Please open up a new thread or contact us here if you need help with this and we’ll get you sorted out!
Cheers!
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@timethief I do some advance editing before uploading images, but inevitably, while fine tuning the layout for each post, I’ll want to tweak something. Sometimes it’s the image size, to prevent bad line breaks. Or I’ll add white space on one or more sides for the same reason (or just to let the image breathe a bit more). I may want to add or remove a border (by default my theme adds them), or change the size or color of the border to achieve a certain look. Much of this could be done before uploading the image, but not as quickly and easily as on the fly with the old WP options. And of course there is simply no way to know about line breaks until the image is in place.
You’re lucky the changes don’t affect the way you do things.
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@gracejiyoung
Thanks for touching base.Just an update to the border issue – this will depend on the theme.
There are themes where the Image Edit Advanced tab is still there? I thought this was controlled by the image editor option (plugin) of TinyMCE, give or take customization by WordPress.com.
If your theme doesn’t support what you are doing, you can still edit it via CSS.
Such a CSS theme edit requires the $30/year/blog Custom Design upgrade, right? Or, did you mean an HTML edit for a given image in a given post?
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Hi, I have been in touch with ‘support’ and while getting some useful suggestions, the latest response from ‘support’ was:
” If you have a moment, I encourage you to report any image editing trouble you’re having on this page”
So, here I am. My initial enquiry to ‘support’ was:
” Up until a few days ago, editing an image in a post provided the choice of an ‘Advanced Settings’ tab which enabled you to tick a box to display the image in a new window/tab in the browser.” This facility seems to be no longer available – so I contacted ‘Support’.
I was told that WordPress is in the process of updating the Image Editor and received some advice on how to insert target”new” into the TEXT tab for the post which contained the images I wanted to open in a new tab in my Safari browser. This ‘workaround’ did indeed work, but –
I do not want to rely on using the browser back button for folks to navigate my site, I want images to open in a new browser tab (like the original Image Editor provided) and I want it to be easy for me to select this option ‘visually’ ( i.e. ticking a box in advanced settings) rather than having to text edit every image in every post.
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I pay the $30 a year, and the Advanced Image Edit tab is still gone from my options… It disappeared with the recent changes. So I’m not sure why that was given as a solution.
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This whole situation regarding the removal of the advanced settings tab in the image editor in the “update” (aka: downgrade) is ridiculous and every day it grows more absurd.
I apologize to those who believe the changes are a good thing, for my completely opposite reaction, and to WordPress staff for my inability to contribute in a positive and productive way.
I have tried to refrain from repeating my frustration here, but monitoring this thread has me begging the question: What would it take to give us back those features? Are we hurting any other users by having this tab with the cherished, efficient, user-friendly options? Maybe the answer is wrapped up in the reason the features were deleted.
Two simple questions linger… Why was the Advanced Settings feature eliminated? Why can’t it be re-activated? I’m supposing the answer might be the same for both questions.
I really, really don’t like needing to use the text editor mode and format my post using html code language. The only constructive suggestion I can think to make is: Give us the same, or better, features that were in the Advanced Settings tab, and don’t make us code to do it! Please.
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@sctstudio59
Surprised the Support people did not tell you this:To put a tooltip title (shows when you hover on an image) on an image and/or make it open in a new window at the URL of your choice, click the image, then click the link button on the toolbar. It will let you make a link the same way you do for a text link. (I can’t confirm it will work in Safari. I’m Firefoxy.)
That approach was offered somewhere in this thread, I think by Happiness Engineer gracejiyoung. You didn’t read all 250 comments???
You have to go get the URL first, if you don’t already have one handy.
I’m sure I’m missing something, because the procedure to get it seems so odd that I couldn’t possibly have it right. That is, get it from the Link To Media File section in the image editor.
(No, you can’t just copy and paste it from the URL shown in the gray box under the image — which you’d have to triple-click to select. Ctrl-C doesn’t copy it to the clipboard. I don’t know if that’s a bug or a feature.)
Since you asked about the Advanced tab …
1 – Resizing by percentage: the best answer I’ve seen so far is to choose one of the size options now available (scroll down to see thumbnail, medium, large, full size), then for refining the size, use the grab handles on the image in the visual editor. Unfortunately, they no longer show you the actual pixel count in a tool tip, handy if you have — had — a series of pix to adjust to the same size. Grace has probably reported this to R&D.
I’m not endorsing that approach, and I hope somebody has a better one.
2 – Border, spacing and other image options formerly on the Advanced tab. So far, the HTML editing approach seems to be the popular solution being offered.
I’m baffled by this, because TinyMCE 4 (the visual editor program upgrade that WordPress is testing here) does offer an image editor with an Advanced tab similar to what we had before. Maybe it was incompatible with … whatever.
Given the range of cool things available in TinyMCE 4, WordPress probably has a lot of nifty things coming soon, depending on what features they implement, or customize.
See what I mean here, in a basic sample of TinyMCE:
http://www.tinymce.com/tryit/basic.phpand here, in the “full featured sample”:
http://www.tinymce.com/tryit/full.php… then add unlimited ways that WordPress may choose to customize, add to, subtract from these examples, where they deem it appropriate or desirable, cost effective, whatever. Just about everything in the TinyMCE editor is customizable to some extent. Then you have the role of themes in there, too.
The More Colors option seems to not come standard with the TinyMCE 4 upgrade. There are ways on the market to add the More Colors option to the TinyMCE plugin controlling this, so maybe WordPress is working on that, given it’s place in the chorus of objections to our Visual Editor Downgrade.
But colors are for a different forum topic.
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BTW, those TinyMCE examples are functioning, interactive, operable … click and explore as if you’re editing your own post.
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speechless! speechless! you have destroyed two years of my work. thank you WP genius. now i have to re-adjust all my posts. sorry no future with you!
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I appreciate all the enhancements and hard work to make WP better, but the image editor lost something important.
All the “advanced settings” options in the image editor are gone. What I mean is, there I see no way to create white space in pixel size around an image, i.e. “border space” – “vertical space” – “horizontal space.”
The Image Resize roll-out page doesn’t address it, nor does the sticky Translation: We no longer have control over how much white space we leave around images so that text doesn’t bump into them/adding a border with specified pixels.
Will someone please re-add this feature? Thank you.
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@cyperezblog, I agree…the workarounds in which we’re to add the title between certain spots via text editor is either too much for me to figure out or I’m just plain stupid. I spent the better part of the afternoon trying to add tooltips this way and several times I zapped my pics right out of my post, and the rest of the time nothing changed when I went back to “hover” I finally gave up an hour ago and just published the post as is with no tooltips. Ridiculous, the amount of time I spent on this foolishness only to publish something inferior, (or at the very least) not up to my usual high standards. Even if no one notices but me, I don’t like this current situation!
I suspect i am placing the title in the wrong place–or something–and I will give it another go the next time I post….but none of this is the point…the point is that having to use a text editor and frig around with something that was once so SIMPLE is just plain dumb!
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Hi all – Just a note to say thanks for the update. But on the other hand, WordPress, you could’ve avoided unpleasant “surprises” among those of us who are loyal, happy “advanced settings” fans by publicizing well in advance that changes were coming, and perhaps even gathered input/feedback before the release. If you had found champions to help educate/support the blog community, we perhaps could’ve saved tons of time and ill-will that now shadows this update.
I personally have invested hours in searching Google, reading WP help docs, support posts and forums in order to 1) Discover that it wasn’t a glitch or something I did wrong, 2) Learn that an upgrade had happened that effectively obliterated functions from “Advanced Settings,” and 3) Discover exactly WHAT I can do to produce the desired UX elements, going forward.
FORTUNATELY, now that I KNOW what I can do, I am pleased with the upgrade — but this has been costly for ME to unravel — and no doubt for other bloggers who depend upon your platform. I’m sure it’s been no picnic for the WP.com team, either.
MORALE: Communicating early + often before changing admin functionality can make ALL the difference.
THANKS AGAIN for all you do to make our blogging experience AWESOME.
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@smallhousebiggarden You’re not stupid. HTML must be exactly right, down to the last space, comma, and quotation mark. That’s why the Advanced Settings were so great. They did that coding for us. And they were never guilty of omissions or typos.
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Thanks for your advice on how to open images in a new window.
Could you please also advice how to resize various images to the same size? My blog is picture heavy and I can’t manually drag each and every image to the same size. Too much guesswork involved.
Thanks.
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