Image Resize
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Hi there,
@balsamean- As for the spacing, as @winemusings mentioned you can add spacing around left or right aligned images by going into the Text Editor and adding this to your image tag:
style="margin: 50px;"You can change that 50 to whatever you like. So, a sample of what this would look like is this:
<img class="alignleft wp-image-1264 size-none" style="margin: 50px;" src="http://gracetestaccount1.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/best-wordpress-templates-2014.png" alt="best-wordpress-templates-2014" width="206" height="202" />This will end up looking like this:
@charly709 – I see that Jackie has forwarded you to the right thread!
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I tried adding the margin command and it removed it after I saved the page. Seemed to me that not just the option but the implementation as well was removed, I will try again thx
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Thank you, Grace.
I was aware of how to code HTML to set image margins. That’s how I’ll be getting around the removal of the More Colors feature for text, too. And the image border.
But that’s what a code generator … in this case, a GUI editor … is supposed to do for me, and did do for me, for a lot of years, until now.
Is the HTML text editing approach now the one that the company officially says we will have to use for image borders and margin spacing, and “that’s that,” as they have established for the More Colors issue?
Maybe it was posted and I missed it.
@winemusings:
So you’ve seen that you have to type it EXACTLY the way it’s supposed to be, or the editor will strip the whole code string when you switch to Visual. Errors are not tolerated. That’s another one of the fun things about it. Be masterful in copy-and-paste. -
Can anyone confirm a problem with not being able to click and drag an image that has a caption? Thanks.
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Ok, not wanting to change themes I decided to figure out how to fix my posts after the “upgrade”. Hopefully this will help some of you.
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For those who like me are finding that the MORE tag is no longer working properly, I’m told that our WP friends are busy at work on the issue. In the meantime, I found a workaround, that may work for at least some of you.
I noticed that the tag MORE now sits at the bottom of the text. So I copied it and pasted it at the place I needed, and it seems to have worked. Barely.
As I said, this and other issues are being worked out as we speak.
One thing that concerns me is the ‘disappearance’ of the excellent functionality of the ‘hovering over a picture’ that we used to have.
It gave pictures two ways of integrating them into the posts. One, by just hovering the cursor over them, would give you info about the author and credits, etc. The other way, by clicking on it, would transport the reader to an important link or video, enhancing his or her experience.
I do hope they restore both functionalities as they were, very soon. The issue of giving credit where credit is due is essential; I won’t publish a pic if I’m not sure who’s the author or, at least, where I found it. Since we don’t pay for using them, the least we can do is give their authors proper credit. WordPress is certainly on our side on this issue.
Thanks for your time. All the best to all.
Wesley Coll -
Thank you for the information and for the update Colltales, and I would also like to see both functionalities restored. :)
-John Jr
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Gracejiyoung asked for further suggestions. Here is one:
As well as restoring the percentage scaling, there could be an auto-scaling option in the Insert Media dialogue box.
At the bottom of the right panel there would be a checkbox:
• Auto scale imagesWhere this is checked, an option list would appear or become enabled:
• Aspect ratio to span full page:
o 4:3
o 3:2
o 16:9
o 2:1 (default)
o Perhaps there could also be an option to type in a custom aspect ratioAll images would then be placed on the page scaled to the same image area, unless that would mean they were larger than the page width.
For me 2:1 would be an appropriate size. If you go much wider than that, standard non-panorama images become too small. Other people may seldom crop their images or may not generate panoramas. For them a smaller aspect ratio may be more appropriate.Variables:
• Page width
o For my theme and options it is 640. This may vary for other themes and choices such as border.
• Corrected image area (CA)
o Easily calculated from page width and chosen aspect ratio
• Default Image Width (DW)
o The width of the unscaled image on the page. Always the same. In my case this is 640.
• Default Image Height (DH)
o The height of the unscaled image on the page.
• Corrected Image Width (CW)
o The width of the image on the page after scaling
• Corrected Image Height (CH)
o The height of the image on the page after scalingCalculations:
• CW = √ (CA * DW / DH)
o If not obvious, √ = square root
• CH = √ (CW * DW / DH)This then places automatically scaled images on the page. They are consistently scaled and this is far quicker than the old percentage interface, let along the current manual scaling option, which I have also not found to work.
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I, too, am unhappy with the updates to the image editor. The old saying, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” certainly is applicable here. Why force users to learn html code to accomplish what WP originally let them accomplish in the visual editor?
I am repeating here what others have requested: I’d like to be able to do the following in the new set-up (all options available under “Advanced Settings” in the old set-up):
1. Add a border of particular width to my image.
2. Add extra vertical or horizontal space around my image.
3. Title my image (not the alt text or the caption, but the actual image title; right now it’s a URL that I can’t amend).
4. Set my image links to open in a new window (ideally without having to do this separately through the link button on the Kitchen Sink).Please re-enable these very valuable and time-saving functions!
-SP Fischer
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I would like to see the return of the box to frame the image and functional alternative text as before. : (
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Thanks to people who have suggested workarounds, including @gracejiyoung, but they’re not of much help to my clients who really do not want to mess about with code directly; not everyone is happy with doing that – which software engineers tend to forget. The Advanced Settings did all those things BUT MUCH MORE EASILY (and more quickly)… that’s the point of a GUI, after all.
I can’t tell some of my clients to start writing code. What I can do is point them elsewhere, but I’m holding fire at the moment to see what happens.
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WordPress, please!
Go back to the old method with percentages. It was simple, it worked, everyone was happy – why change it?!
Also, if you’re going to suddenly change how systems work, can’t you work out some way of telling your users? -
ehi staff! you see now how many of us are totally disappointed? changing for example the border of the image and bringing to none was exactly in the direction of minimalism and lightness. yesterday i spent two hrs finding a solution with an engineer, can i send you the invoice?
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@ colltales wrote: “One thing that concerns me is the ‘disappearance’ of the excellent functionality of the ‘hovering over a picture’ that we used to have.
It gave pictures two ways of integrating them into the posts. One, by just hovering the cursor over them, would give you info about the author and credits, etc. The other way, by clicking on it, would transport the reader to an important link or video, enhancing his or her experience”EXACTLY!!
I post a ton of pics of flowers and use that function ON EVERY SHOT to give my readers botanical names and quick facts about the plants! This was of enormous educational value to my readers and allowed busy people to practically skip the entire post if they were in a hurry and just wanted quick info! I’m sick that this feature is gone and that including tooltips in the future will require me to invest time I don’t have frigging around in html mode with which I’m unfamililar.Unfortunately, losing a feature that was integral to my blog now forces me to do one of two things that I don’t have much time/interest in tackling! The way I see it, I either:
1. find a new platform
2. invest too much time working around a formerly easy-to-use insertion!
Neither of these are palatable and I’m highly annoyed!The easy GUI was the main reason most of us chose WordPress in the first place–why would you think taking it away is progress?????
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I’ve seen HappytimesieEngineer Jackiedana do some nice work helping users. Same with many other support people. But sometimes, when there is nothing they can do for you, they turn into salespeople, in the classic derogatory sense of the word. See New Visual Editor Concerns.
I tried to close that thread long before she did, but she just kept rocking the boat more by saying things to reinforce their case that this Visual Editor Downgrade is (1) NOT a downgrade, and (2) permanent, “for the duration,” and (3) necessary as part of something better — coming soon to a mouse near you — that will make this downgrade forgettable.
She compared it to hard-to-swallow changes at Google and Facebook that supposedly we accommodated and “forgot.” I quit both of them. And I don’t miss them one bit. Not because of changes they made, but because they’re insane, more so Fb than Big Data Daddy G. Unlike Jackie, I would not have brought them into the discussion, because comparison of WordPress to them seems irrelevant. Then again, some people are understandably guessing that WordPress may be envious of the insane.
I am to forget that a product that I have loved for several years has reverted to the gawky GUI of my old 2003 free website (not a WordPress site). I don’t have that kind of control over memory.
The discussion here and elsewhere seems to set the writing plainly on the wall. The wall says something like, “We’ll try to fix overt malfunctions of features as they exist now, but we will not [cannot?] reverse any removals of features, and there’s nothing you can say to change our minds about that.”
Is that a correct reading of the wall? Will WordPress just say so or not?
I hope it’s a misread of the wall. I want to be proved wrong about it. I want to be humbled and have to apologize, saying, gee, I really am better off being an HTML coder.
As for its impact on you, says the wall, “S*** happens. Get over it.”
And Jackie says that it is “not possible” for them to announce or show a preview of the good things she says I should wait to see coming down the pipe to us, which should compensate for the Visual Editor Downgrade.
I look forward to being proved wrong, in that there will be benefits coming soon that outweigh the damage done here (to the product and to our faith in its provider), as she says I should expect. When it gets here, I’ll praise it as heartily as I denounce the Visual Editor Downgrade.
I’ll wait for it. Given their position, all I CAN do is wait, and work on becoming a better typist for HTML text editing, and on accepting that it will take longer to create a post, and that it will be less enjoyable, because they’ve said they won’t do anything to relieve me of the impact of this Visual Editor Downgrade.
So I will wait, of course. However, they’ve taken a chunk out of my trust that they won’t do this again, not because they’ve set a pattern for doing it (in my several years’ experience here) — quite the contrary, really — but because of their response to we highly negatively impacted customers, saying, in apparent effect, “Like it or leave it.” That’s what punches a hole in my faith. The response so far.
That’s not “Support” (as in the intent of this forum). That’s crap.
I’m going to do the 2-week trial of the Custom Design Upgrade to see if it will help mitigate the impact of the Visual Editor Downgrade, even if it does cost me $30 per year per blog forever. (Ouch.) I’m a big enough fan of this product to buy an upgrade that softens the blow of the downgrade for me.
Once.
I expect that they’ll come up with a different $ upgrade that will give us back a truly GUI editor.
Okay, block me now for making speeches. I expect it. It’s worth it.
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For me the removal of the percentage image resizing capability was the largest downgrade, especially since I have a photographic blog and include up to eighteen images per post, which I want to have at similar or identical image areas.
So I got to thinking what I could do as long as this situation remains and decided that modifying values in text mode was the best option. I have just published a brief blog post on this. It includes an Excel utility to calculate what revised image sizes should be. There is also a Word macro that automates changes in image dimensions, provided you are using Lightroom’s standard aspect ratios.
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Thanks for that, I’ve been playing with it and it does help me with some of my issues. However it is still slower than the apparently defunct-for-no- good-reason-whatsoever percentage scale system… with my volume of work, it’s a pain.
C’mon WP… this is silly. Just closing down threads doesn’t stop the chuntering, some of which is getting quite public. You won’t lose face by reinstating the percentage scaling, honest you won’t.
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WordPress, it seems, has made the decision to orient their product to the user whose primary interest is social media, and turn it into something more appealing to the Facebook, Google, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram crowd who do most of their work via mobile devices.
The bloggers who have registered their complaints in these forums are serious about the product they produce and want it to look as professional as possible. Most of us are not necessarily interested in becoming HTML savvy, so WordPress was a good choice. We didn’t have to become technicians, yet we could produce a product that was better than a Facebook page or a Pinterest wall.
Now with the DOWNGRADE, they can simply tell us to make do with crayons and chalk, go play in the sandbox. If we don’t like it, learn HTML. That’s a huge change in direction for the WordPress product and what WordPress had previously aspired to be: a user-friendly platform for the serious blogger.
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