Why did WordPress remove precise image dimensions from the visual editor?
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@deaddogbarking and colourcottage,
I’m not having any trouble with opening images in another tab or window. Both options are in the right click menu, and functioning normally.
However, image tooltip titles are missing from some of my embedded images, including old images (ones uploaded months or years ago) and freshly uploaded images. I’ve started a thread on this issue, here: “Image tooltip titles suddenly stopped displaying” -
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In my experience don’t expect an apology; expect a “here’s why this is awesome” post.
+1000
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@colourcottaage,
Yes. Is that your fix? It’ll work, but which WP staff member would like to help me add that code several thousand images?
I knew the tooltips or “hover text,” was gone from the galleries — that was several months ago — but I just noticed the absence of tooltips in embedded images yesterday. I spend so much time on my site, revising and editing old pages that it seems unlikely that I would have missed such a change for very long. When did that happen? -
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It happened in the last 1-2 days I’m pretty sure.
And yes, it’s a major PITA to have to do so much html editing.
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They will not listen, they will not respond, we will have to find a way of dealing with it or just upgrade – which is what they want of course!
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apetcher,
Yes, it would appear so. But vanallemarktenthuis said, above),I took the premium upgrade because I figured I lliked WordPress so much I wanted to stay here. Now it takes me four times as much time to edit my photo’s and fit them right in my posts. It’s ridiculous.
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I’ll get back to this and y’all tomorrow. Got to hit the sack before sun up. G’night or g’day everyone. Pleasant dreams.
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I am using the Newsworthy theme and noticed yesterday that I can’t make the custom text color choices that I used to have (00aeef). Now I can only choose the default colors. It’s too bad because this other blue was a better shade of blue. I do not have the custom design upgrade but it seems like this new ‘innovation’ is an effort to force that decision. Seems unfair!
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@johnwhays,
I don’t see a border of any color on your blog. Did you change the theme? Some themes have a border which is a background setting. If the theme supports the “custum background” feature, then you can change it. See WP Support > Themes > Custom Backgrounds, and Custom Background WordPress Themes (226 themes listed). -
@musicdoc1,
Thanks, but the border I’ve been referring to is the one around uploaded images in each post. The theme I have chosen automatically puts a somewhat wide, light blue border on each image I insert in a post.
I have been replacing it with a 1px wide black border that is much cleaner and has become the signature look I strive to maintain. -
Oh, sorry. I misunderstood. Yes, your images look fine.
My theme also adds image borders by default, and I am definitely not happy with that. I used to be able to remove the border by choosing align > none in the editor, then aligning them if desired with a little trickery. I’d by cut the image, use the appropriate editor button to align left, right, or center, and then paste. This method was shown to me by a WordPress staff member I think, and it actually worked. I used that method for a long time, but it’s been failing lately. I just tried it, and it’s not removing the border anymore.
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We made a few changes to WordPress.com earlier in the week, and we are aware that users have run into some issues with the updates.
Please see our sticky thread at https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/the-paste-as-word-button-has-been-removed-from-the-visual-editor?replies=5
Please also review comments in the thread at https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/image-resize-1?replies=15 and if you have a new bug or issue to report, you may do so there, so that we can keep all of the discussion in one place.
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@Jackie – the adjust picture size by exact pixel was in the NEW editor – I know because I found it and tested it – it was NEW code and worked fine – then it seemed like someone decided that was too easy and took it out – since it was new working code – makes no sense to me to take it out – fully half the image issues in the forum would have went away if the new size option was left working.
Why take out a new feature that was working good? it was much easier than the old change picture size
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auxclass,
They’ve had an exact pixel adjustment feature for at least the last four years: the image corner dragging feature, with the size and width given in a tooltip. I’ve used the feature literally thousands of time, often daily during that time.The dragging feature still works, but the tooltip was removed. I presume you’re not talking about that. Or are you?
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No – not talking about the tool tip – not even sure what the tool tip was since I never used it – before I did the pixel direct in the editor, had to calculate the aspect ratio – then just entered the new pixel values, real clunky but I got along fine with it
the new code I found was in the editor – down a layer or two – there was an “edit” choice and there was a couple of boxes, enter the pixel count in one box and click on the “scale” button and the second pixel count was calculated – just like any real editor – worked just like the scale image in Gimp if you have used it. was not the % thing seems everyone wants, but for my use I would usually pick a width and make all the pictures the same width as they were all in a vertical line for how to do do something – pictures on the left – text on the right – right down the page
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@ auxclass,
Thanks. That would have been better than the absurdity were stuck with now, but it’s a far cry from the corner drag method. I’ve provided a very brief description of this method, and longish explanations of why it was (until sabotaged) the easiest and simplest method of precise image resizing, at the Image Resize thread, page 9.You see, I don’t necessarily know the size I want to use for any image. Often times I won’t know until I see how it looks both in the editor in whatever element I place it, and as displayed with perhaps text wrapped, appealingly, fittingly, or not, around it in the page or post. With side-by-side images, I do often choose the maximum allowed width, but unless each image is a perfect square, the two desired widths will vary from case to case.
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