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  • I have a blog where some of the images that were uploaded are large and take a long time to load… is there a way to limit the size of images loaded by wordpress in posts so that maybe a low res image is loaded instead or a thumbnail is created?

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  • Try uploading and/or inserting smaller images in the first place.

    Thread Starter marcnyc

    (@marcnyc)

    well the problem is there are contributors who don’t pay attention… Now I need to know how to limit them from doing so in the future and how to repair the damage that’s been done. Is there a way?

    First, lower the dimensions for the Medium & Large thumbnails in Settings -> Media. Then install & run http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

    Finally, what is the largest image width that you want people to insert into a post?

    Thread Starter marcnyc

    (@marcnyc)

    that’s a great plugin which solves part of my problem but I have two other related issues:
    i’d like to also re-size images that are not thumbnails but above a certain size in kb

    also I’d like to limit what people can install but in kB rather than pixels. is that possible?

    Not by filesize, no. 🙁

    Thread Starter marcnyc

    (@marcnyc)

    i see…

    so is there the equivanete of the Regenerate Thumnails plug in for regular pics?

    Not that I’m aware of. What were you looking for?

    Thread Starter marcnyc

    (@marcnyc)

    I guess I was thinking I could resize all the images of all my posts with a plugin like the one you linked, that’s all

    The only images that the Regenerate Thumnails plugin won’t resize is the full-size images. I don’t know of any plugin that will do that.

    Thread Starter marcnyc

    (@marcnyc)

    ok thank you…

    too bad WP doesn’t allow to limit the size of uploads by pixel and kb

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