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  mroxo12 · Member · Apr 12, 2022 at 8:00 pm

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  Why do all my images change to different sizes when I publish?

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  supernovia · Staff · Apr 12, 2022 at 11:11 pm

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  Hi! Can you share a link to an affected page or post? We’ll have a look.

  Generally speaking, photos can change sizes if they’re background or featured images, but we’ll know more when we see what you’re seeing.

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  mroxo12 · Member · Apr 18, 2022 at 8:23 pm

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  Good Bristol

  Hi supernovia, I think this is the correct link. The problem I am having is that standard photos resize themselves randomly. This one has just done it after being OK all day.

  I am switching between phone and tablet, could this be the problem?
  Thanks.

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Apr 19, 2022 at 12:08 am

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  Hi there,

  I could see that as an issue since a phone is much narrower than a tablet. If you were to add images using your phone, you might think they are “full width,” but they just appear that way since you are on a smaller screen.

  For your page https://justgothomefrom.wordpress.com/good-bristol I think a good habit to get into will be to make sure when adding your image that you are explicitly setting their size in the block settings instead of trusting what you see visually.

  This is difficult to explain in words, so I recorded a quick video to show you how to find that setting.

  You can view it at this link: https://d.pr/v/c1sifA

  If you were to double-check that setting, images will display at full width, even on a desktop computer. For example, the settings change I show in the above-linked video would appear like this to site visitors on a laptop:

  

  Hope that helps. Please let us know if you have any more questions.

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  mroxo12 · Member · Apr 19, 2022 at 2:43 pm

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  Thanks jerrysarcastic, it appears that some features are not available my tablet. At least I can stop pulling my hair out now you pointed it out.

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  mroxo12 · Member · Apr 19, 2022 at 6:12 pm

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  Just an update in case anyone else is having issues.
  It turns out that the pictures that wouldn’t resize were in a ‘Gallery’ block and not an ‘image’ block.
  Changed the blocks and so far so good.
  Sorry for the newbie error.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Apr 19, 2022 at 7:30 pm

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  Ah yes, you can resize the Gallery Block as a whole, but not individual images themselves.

  The TIled Gallery Block provides more fun resizing with the Tiled Mosaic https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/tiled-gallery-block/ but that’s all automated, you again can’t manually resize the original images.

  If you’re using just single images though, I definitely recommend using just the Image Block: https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/image-block/#resize-images