Photo Gallery settings
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For most purposes, I believe 1600 pixels at the longest dimension works well, unless your theme requires a larger image for a featured image. That’s large enough (at least as of this writing) to satisfy social media, which isn’t an issue for you since your site is Private. :)
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Is there a way to replace the image with a resized one without having to delete the existing one and replace the images on all the pages?
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The reason probably why the support doc doesn’t address the size is because social media keeps changing things!
Unless you are pushing your storage limit, I would not worry about replacing existing images (and certainly not deleting them). That can be a world of pain. I can give you details if absolutely needed, but will need to wait until tomorrow (my time).
One last thing from me as it’s getting rather late here, have a look at your theme’s showcase page to see the Quick Specs on dimensions. That will also give you an insight as to how much resizing the software is doing. You might want to consider using those dimensions instead. https://wordpress.com/themes/responsive/
Cheers for now.
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Hello again, replacing images can be done by editing your posts in the WP Admin dashboard Visual Post Editor. Start at https://friendstofriendssite.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php
Replacing images works for individual images, but not Galleries you’ve inserted. For Galleries, you will need to recreate each Gallery with the newly resized and optimized images.
To replace an image, open each post and click on the image to edit it (pencil). When the image opens in the next screen, underneath the image you’ll see a button to replace it. (temp screenshot) Click on that button to select an image from your Media Library or to upload a new image. Save your changes and resave/update your entire post.
I would suggest testing first before proceeding on your entire site. On my test site, replacing the image removed the image caption and other settings, like alignment.
If are unhappy with the results you can use the Undo button, but only while you are still editing the post. If that doesn’t work or you’ve accidentally exited the post after replacing the image, you can use post revisions https://en.support.wordpress.com/editors/page-post-revisions/ to return to an earlier version of the post with the original image.
Let me know if you have any further questions about that.
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I’m following along still. As justjennifer has mentioned already, each theme is going to have specific standards for image size. Those can be found at the bottom of the setup instructions.
Currently, only 11% of your storage is claimed so I do not think that is the cause.
I’ll need to do further testing to replicate the issue on my end. Can you tell me which browser and version you’re using? You’ll find that at supportdeatils.com.
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I tried your link (supportdeatils.com) but I get a page-not-found.
I am working with Safari 10.2 and FF 51.0.1, if that is what you are asking about.
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Is this what you mean by image size standards?
Quick Specs (all measurements in pixels)
The main column width is 605 except in the full-width layout where it’s 918
The Home template featured image is 440 wide and 300 tall
Each Home template widget area is 264 wide
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Hello again, if you are using only 11% of your storage as staff-zinnia mentions, I certainly wouldn’t worry about what has already been uploaded. Start resizing and optimizing your images on future posts.
Standard sizes I believe are the ones mentioned in the Quick Specs, so as I mentioned above, when a browser/software has to resize an image online from 4000 pixels wide down to 440 pixels or 918 or 605 pixels wide, it’s a huge waste both in storage space for you and image resizing time on your visitors end. Given your theme’s quick specs, you could even drop to 1280 pixels wide or 1024 pixels wide instead of 1600 pixels wide.
I think that link got messed up. Try this http://supportdetails.com/
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You’ll find that at supportdeatils.com.
Yes, my bad. There’s a typo. It should read supportdetails.com as justjennifer mentioned.
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Yeah, took me a bit to notice the misspelling.
Any idea why it’s cropping the gallery? If not, I may just change it to slideshow. -
Ok, I’m back.
I’ve spent some time looking at this Fishing post in particular and the 14 images in that gallery. While you are only using an overall of 11% of your storage the actual images are just much too large and causing trouble.
When I take a look at the fishing post, I can see 11 images and I need to scroll down to see the remaining for a total of 14. The images below that scroll point don’t want to cooperate despite my best efforts.
It is going to be a bit of work but my recommendation is resize these images to make the posts more visible and so that you can edit them more easily. This is going to give your visitors a better experience – especially from mobile devices.
For example, this fishing gallery is about 100MB large. If you had a data plan on your phone for 2GB / month, you would use that up by simply loading this fishing post 20 times. Does that make sense?
Once the images are resized and you create a new gallery I believe the issue will resolve itself.
This guide on Image Optimization has more details for you: https://en.support.wordpress.com/media/image-optimization/
Notice the pigeon example is in KB. The images in your post galleries are in MB. Substantially larger.
I’m here for any follow ups :)
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Jen, Liz, resizing did it, thanks. I also found out that in the “classic” mode (WP Admin) I can do the resize right in the media page. Click on an image, edit, and there is a scaling option. I dropped everything to 1280 on the long side.
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Glad to help.
Just so you know, resizing the image in the media page on your site doesn’t reduce your storage space. If you uploaded a 5MB image, that upload is what counts. The only way to save space is to resize and optimize before you upload.
Let us know if you have any other question. All the best.
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To the best of my knowledge, the original file is still there in the background in case you want to reset it after editing. https://en.support.wordpress.com/images/editing-an-image/#reverting-an-image
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Using the image editing from WP Admin I thought I would check the image info before and after, here is one I just did:
Before scaling:
File name: img_1212.png
File type: image/png
Uploaded on: March 29, 2017
File size: 8 MB
Dimensions: 3072 × 2048After editing:
File name: img_1212-e1491386912119.png
File type: image/png
Uploaded on: March 29, 2017
File size: 2 MB
Dimensions: 1280 × 853As far as the gallery itself:
Before editing: You are currently using 358.2 MB out of 3.0 GB upload limit (12%).
After editing: You are currently using 360.0 MB out of 3.0 GB upload limit (12%).It seems that it resizes the image and drops the space, but the original is still around, I have just increased the amount of space I am using. Sad there is no way to replace the image or, as in a real optimization program, tell it to eliminate the original.
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Which goes back to the original suggestion of resizing and optimizing before you upload.
Again, 11% usage is not “running out of storage space” so you don’t need to be concerned about it for images you’ve already uploaded. Just do it forward from here.
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Also, I could be wrong but I think that staff-zinnia also intended in her reply here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/photo-gallery-settings-1/page/2?replies=38#post-2912329 that you should resize and optimize the fishing post gallery images and then upload the resized images and create a new gallery with them to replace the existing gallery. (Sorry about the run-on sentence.)
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moderntheologian – please post back with any additional questions. justjennifer’s last comment is correct.
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