Restore Original Size Of Images in Media Library

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    daleron01 · Member ·

    Hello,

    i have the following problem. Since we didn’t know for long that WordPress just generates a new file when changing the size, we just scaled an uploaded image to save space. The Media Library now displays the changed images (the file name is the original file name plus an “e” and a long number), while having the original size still in the uploads folder.

    Now: We wanted to change the theme, and the featured image of a post in the new layout unfortunatley is much bigger than before. But it uses the smaller image that is in the media library instead of the original and therefore it is blurred/pixelated.

    “Regenerate Thumbnails” didn’t work for that problem, since the featured image isn’t a thumbnail. What worked was to go the the media library, edit the image and restored the original size.

    But we have over 1000 posts with featured images. It would be very cumbersome to look for every single image and to edit it to the original size manually.

    Is there any way to make that automatically? That the media library automatically restores every image to the original size?

    That would be great. I hope you can help me.

    Thank you very much!

    Greetings,
    Daleron

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    justjennifer · Member ·

    Hi there, what’s the address of the site you are working on?

    If you need help with a site using the open source WordPress software, you’ll want to head over to https://wordpress.org/support where they have more experience with the software you are using. If you don’t have a username on the ORG forums you can register one on the top of that page.

    Just to clarify, this support forum assists users of the WordPressdotcom platform. WordPressdotcom (where we are ) and WordPress are separate entities with different documentation and support forums. More information about the differences can be found here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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    daleron01 · Member ·

    Oh, thank you for your fast response and my apologies. Obviously I am wrong here and will post my querie in the support forums of wordpress.org again.

    Thanks!

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    justjennifer · Member ·

    Hi there, no need to apologize. Many people with WordPress sites post here inadvertently.

    Cheers!

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