Photos have become small and off-centered.
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@timethief, ack!
Really looking forward to going through my entire site fixing pictures this morning – since the staff is still “fixing” things – sounds like a waste of time anyway
Did you see the first solution? It’s a one time settings change. Should work if a lot of your images changes sizes at once.
One Post – nothing matches – text is now all over the picture – caption does not match the picture width
Hold please. :) (just for a sec while I document/screenshot it)
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Sometimes I use size small or medium and sometimes I adjust the size to a custom size – did not look at the linked Post to see what I did on that picture –
I will leave the Post as is for a while
If your images are using classes like “size-medium” (common) and you want to change them all at once, go to Settings > Media and make sure the max widths and heights are set correctly there.
So how do I tell if the widths and heights are set correctly?
I have never messed with that setting on a global range – I sometimes change to a custom size at times – but I have NEVER changed anything in the Settings >> Media – always have left things at the default
thanx
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Ok, thanks for waiting, I got some screenshots, here they are ftr:
* http://cl.ly/RWOD
* http://cl.ly/RX7I
* http://cl.ly/RW7LOn the Settings > Media page, the thumbnail sizes look absolute whereas the other ones are max sizes (so more like a bounding box). I’m experimenting to try to reproduce the problem in your posts to see what I can figure out for a fix.
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You be welcome – the Post is readable and I don’t have a Photo Blog so that Post just looks a bit like amateur hour – not the first one I have done –
I used to write & repair software – having someone changing things while I was trying to find out what was wrong made things much more difficult – but try telling a production manager that you want to leave their production line stopped while you dissect a program listing 4 inches thick is not always the most popular thing to do
good luck
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@designsimply, will these image resizing changes affect the default Gallery thumbnails that have been inserted either as thumbnails or larger, after changing the shortcode?
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@designsimply, will these image resizing changes affect the default Gallery thumbnails that have been inserted either as thumbnails or larger, after changing the shortcode?
Galleries already automatically resize according to the sizes on your Settings > Media page, so those should work exactly the same way (in galleries) as they did before the update. If you see evidence as to otherwise, please post an example for me and I’ll take a look to see what I can find (I think galleries should be good to go though).
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After more research, I found that image sizes in the editor don’t match image sizes on the front end if the images were resized according to the size-medium (or similar) class. I filed that as a bug.
I’m waiting to hear back about the editor vs. front-end size issue as well as the caption resizing issue. Someone will post back here as soon as we have more information.
Thanks for your patience!
Sorry for the trouble!
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@designsimply- so far so good, but I’m still going through my sites. You know I will tell you if I find any oddities.
FWIW-I’ve long suspected that either inserting images at “full size” or via a Gallery pretty much insulates them from unexpected surprises due to theme changes and/or updates. So far that seems to hold true.
/knocks wood
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Thank You all so much for looking into this! Things happen…and even if difficult, gratitude and kindness go a long way in reaching solutions. Thanks to all the WP magicians who are working on this! Blessings!
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If your images are using classes like “size-medium” (common) and you want to change them all at once, go to Settings > Media and make sure the max widths and heights are set correctly there.
What is the maximum width and height for the Expound theme please?
These are my current settings:
Thumbnail size Width 150 Height 150
Medium size Max Width 300 Max Height 300
Large size Max Width Max HeightThis change was made so that when you switch themes or update Settings > Media sizes, the images will update properly for the new theme or update to match the media settings.
Thank goodness I have not been uploading the HUGE images others are loading right off their cameras. U suspect that’s why I don’t see any issues on my blog but then again with over 900 posts I don’t have time to check them all.
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So does this apply to posts that are doing the opposite? In the post editor, I make all my pictures that accompany posts Medium, but now they’re showing up as full sized. I do not resize them before I upload them. I might just find a picture off Google and resize it to fit the post, but again, all my photos, with the few exceptions, such as Instagram photos, collages, or images with captions, are showing up extra big.
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Hi DesignSimply, thank you so much for all your help and looking into things for us.
I noticed that all the pictures on my blog posts (old and new posts) were automatically changed yesterday afternoon. All my pictures are appearing smaller vs. when I had them larger. I posted some pictures in some of my posts that I sized differently but I did that purposely, but now they’re all one same size.
I read a comment above where we can go to settings and media and have all our pictures resized. I went onto media settings and saw the thumbnail size, medium size, and large size settings… I’d like to have my pictures in the large size settings for now. I think that would look much better on my blog than the small pictures that are appearing there now, but I don’t see where I can make all my pictures larger… Is there a button I’m to click on for the large size setting somewhere in the media settings page?
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Hi I’m back. I just figured to type in 900 onto the width and height in the medium size area and I checked my blog and so far all the pictures are appearing at that size. Looks good to me. Thank you again so much!!
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FWIW-I’ve long suspected that either inserting images at “full size” or via a Gallery pretty much insulates them from unexpected surprises due to theme changes and/or updates. So far that seems to hold true.
@justjennifer, full size images were already getting resized according to the themes $content_width value to make sure images always fit into their content containers. And galleries have been working the right way for a long time. The goal behind the recent changes is to make inserting individual images work the same way.
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Timethief,
I have images with file sizes as small as 457 X 359 affected. That’s hardly “huge”. It’s slightly above my present maximum width and height setting for “Medium size” on the media settings page .
Tried to adjust the CSS max medium and large dimensions on the media settings page. These modifications had no noticeable effect on the size of images already embedded in posts and pages. It didn’t fix any of the recently, improperly resized images (and I likely have thousands to fix) on the site.
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I can, of course, go about fixing each improperly resized image one by one, by painstakingly removing each unwanted “size-medium” or “size-large” tag applied by default by WordPress. But let’s hope someone comes up with a less time-wasting and tedious solution than that.
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What is the maximum width and height for the Expound theme please?
Each theme has a content width, and the Settings > Media options are a bit different (they aren’t directly theme related).
The Settings > Media options determine what size an image will be when it is inserted into a post or page. Every time you add an image, there’s an option on the right that let’s you pick which size you want to use for the image: thumbnail, medium, large, full. In the past, the image would get added at that size and then it would be disconnected from the Settings > Media sizes and if you wanted to change the size of an individually embedded image, you would have to change it manually, Now, the image will get updated based on the Settings > Media sizes.
So, to answer your question about Expound and media settings. Expound has a “main column width is 700 except in the full-width layout where it’s 960,” mentioned in the quick specs on this page http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/expound/
Say you set your large image size to 1024 and 1024, then when you inserted the image, it would get sized down to 700 in a main content column in expound because images shouldn’t be bigger than the theme’s content width. But if you inserted a medium size image at 300px, then the image would show up as 300px in the Expound theme. Then if you went to your Settings > Media page and changed medium to 600 and 600, them medium images you added before would change automatically (that used to only happen for galleries and now it will happen for individually inserted images too). If you changed the medium sizes to 800 and 800, the image would appear at 700 in a main column on Expound because that’s the main column containers content width.
Sorry for the long explanation, hopefully it’s helpful!
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Thank goodness I have not been uploading the HUGE images others are loading right off their cameras. U suspect that’s why I don’t see any issues on my blog but then again with over 900 posts I don’t have time to check them all.
It would depend on how you added the images and whether they way you added them uses class names like “size-medium” or not.
If you spot checked the blog and it looked okay, the other posts are probably fine too.
The only down side to not adding huge images is that WordPress.com will now make the images look good for retina screens automatically if the original images you uploaded are large enough.
Also, it used to be more of a concern about using the exact right size for images in the past, but now WordPress.com has evolved and those query strings you see at the end of images like
?w=300do some magic and resize the images for you. What that means is that you will still be loading nice, fast, compressed images even if you have uploaded larger ones. It’s one of the behind-the-scenes benefits of using WordPress.com, and a pretty awesome one at that.
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