Thumnails too small, change size?
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Here’s an example of what I do.
<img src="http://www.blumoonart.wordpress.ca/apple.jpg" border="0" width"135" height="180" alt="apple"
I remove the thumbnail portion in the html editor. Then I put in the size I want. I prefer no border so I add that in.
You can see the results here:
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Sorry, I have to go along with what Drmike says in that I can’t get a much better connection than 2kb a sec; and a large part of my target audience gets even slower, while some read solely through the photos. The wordpress thumbnails load a lot lot faster or leave a smaller amount of blank space when they dont load than the solutions that some replies are suggesting. The thumbnail is a smaller file versus the original file size with fewer pixals – well I dont know about the latter…
I just happen to disagree with Drmike where he says “Actually I do believe we’re stuck with the thumbnail height. (I’ve noticed that the width can change but the height is set.)” My latest post has the exactly the one and the same thumbnail at different heights and widths. It mayn’t make sense, but nothing’s impossible!
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bbaunach, we don’t have access to the files here as this is a WPMU install which is a sharded environment. You may want to read though the Read me first to learn the differences between the softwares.
forest, you appear to be doing what blumoon suggests and manually setting the heights and widths. That’s beyond what the WP software does for you. (But does work though.)
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Just because there is some claim that 70% of users use dial up does not mean that people should be forced into a particular thumbnail size. Please note that there are some themes out there that definitely not intended for dial-up users.
I don’t see the big deal in adding a simple function to change the thumbnail size. Look what people are doing as an alternative: not using the thumbnail. Which means that people who upload 1MB photos and “resize” them in the editor are simply changing the HTML properties. The file size does not change. You dial-up folks are still downloading one MB when all the blogger wanted is for you to download a slightly larger thumbnail.
Instead of ignoring a problem, find a better alternative.
P.S. I have no personal problem with this. I’m quite capable of hacking the code and checking the default, but not everybody should have to. I always prided WordPress as giving people all the flexibility they wanted. It may be an oversight by the developers and that’s fine, but what I don’t understand is people who are defending a lack of a feature. People, expand your minds, the customer is always right.
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For me it works okay, since I do not post high resolution photos on my site. I know that changing the thumbnail size causes it to load at the original file size, but since mine are not big, I don’t worry. :)
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