image size limits

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  raptinawe · Member · Apr 3, 2009 at 11:50 pm

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  I understand that to display with a given blog template, there are image size limits and they generally seem to be about 500 pixels wide. I have a need to publish images two or three times that width. Is there a way?

  Yes, I know that users will probably have to scroll to see my entire image. In this case I am publishing star charts and they simply aren’t useful in the small sizes – much the way a map isn’t useful if too small. Scrolling isn’t an issue. People scroll within Google maps all the time. Displaying the largest image possible, then, ismy goals. Ideally I would treat the 500-pixel image (460 pixel-whatever) my blog template limits me to as a thumbnail and a person would click on it to display a large, scrollable image in a new window.

  I would like to do something along those lines. I know how to do it – with HTML and JS, but that would require sending people to another location outside wordpress.com. I’d like to keep it all within WordPress if possible. I don’t see a way to do this, but perhaps I’m misisng something simple and obvious???

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 3, 2009 at 11:55 pm

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  Publish a image that fits the post area and then link it to the original at the size you want.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 3, 2009 at 11:57 pm

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  Ideally I would treat the 500-pixel image (460 pixel-whatever) my blog template limits me to as a thumbnail and a person would click on it to display a large, scrollable image in a new window.

  When you insert the image into the post, just make sure and click the “file URL” button and it will link the thumbnail to the full-sized image.

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  raptinawe · Member · Apr 4, 2009 at 1:21 am

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  Wow – now that is simple – thanks!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 4, 2009 at 2:26 am

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  You’re welcome.

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  jayteeh · Member · Apr 29, 2009 at 5:28 pm

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  I hope somebody can take one more follow-up on this.

  I uploaded a picture at 600 pixels in width, allowed Word Press to size it to “medium” and clicked “file URL” as discribed above. (so far, so fabulous.) When I click the smaller image in my post, I get a new window with the image on it. It flashes to the image at 600 pixels wide, then goes back to the image at “medium” size. If I click the image in the new window, it grows to it’s real 600-pixel-wide size. Can I make it open that new window and stay at the larger size?

  Thanks in advance. This forum is very useful.

  Here’s an example: http://joannetaeuffer.com/about/
  it’s the first photo at the top of this page.

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  jayteeh · Member · Apr 29, 2009 at 9:46 pm

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  I’ve done more testing and I think the answer is: screen resolution. It appears that the graphic resizes itself based on the size of the new open window. I keep my monitor at a low res (avoiding the need for computer glasses) but when I “up” the resolution, the graphic is resized in the new window to a BIGGER size…still not full size unless I click on it.

  So…if anybody has a better answer than that, let me know. Otherwise, I’m going assume it’s a feature not a bug and live with it.