Wow! What a neat website!
Anyway, I took a good look at what looks to be your last post… ‘Sock Mending’???Everything looks very good from here so I’d recommend hitting the refresh button on your web browser and see if a reload doesn’t cure the problem.
Looking at the website from someone else’s computer or laptop might help if it still looks broken to you. It really looks nice from here…
If you do have more problems though… maybe provide some more info so we can look deeper.
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Love the old treadle sewing machine. My mom had one, and several of my aunts swore by them, and you all have some fantastic talents! Do let us know if you need more help.
Also, some of the comments look sorta bogus like from someone getting ready to spam your site with comments. I’d recommend running Akismet to clean some of that up… For your site Akismet should be free.
Hope this helps and let us know if you need anything else…
The images are stretched from their natural proportions causing the blurring.
Have you made changes to your theme settings or settings > media recently?
Hmmm?
They look fine to me! Maybe a bit stretched in one direction or the other but I don’t see them as blurry. I’m using my chrome browser on a Windows-powered Laptop?
Maybe it’s my old eyes (or maybe that’s the way I see everything anymore) but I don’t see any problems there.
wow, interesting. So I am viewing the site from Microsoft Edge and Firefox on my windows-laptop and both are wonky. Yeah, the photos aren’t really blurry but definitely stretched looking. Not okay. Compare the photos in that post to the previous post if you dont see it. They even look wonky on my phone in Chrome. I also tried posting a new photo as a “preview” to see how it would look and it is wonky too. I havent made any changes to anything as far as I know. Let me know what info I can provide to help figure this out. I am at a total loss.
If you just want the solution, jump to the end…
OK to get a bit technical, this is how sock mending is being rendered on the home page
<img loading="lazy" width="1024" height="768" src="http://www.nettlestreadlesandlove.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/037-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1164" srcset="http://www.nettlestreadlesandlove.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/037-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http://www.nettlestreadlesandlove.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/037-300x225.jpg 300w, http://www.nettlestreadlesandlove.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/037-768x576.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px">
Unfortunately the height=”768″ is setting all the image heights to 768 regardless of width – so distorting the image.
Why? Well a lot of this is controlled by your theme and CSS.
Your theme is old and the version you are using is not current ( 3.1 versus on their website 3.8 )
Your website is running WordPress 5.6 which is the latest version, released in December, the change that has happened is your WordPress has updated.
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 5.6"
Solution:
Add some CSS to override the height setting>
Go to Customizer > Additonional CSS
add
.wp-block-image img {
height: auto;
width: auto;
}
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fullworks.
Wow Fullworks! Hallelujah. That did it. Awesome!
Will I need to do that each time I post something new or is it reset now?
When I go to “Apperance” and go to “themes” the theme I am using does not have an update button on it like many of the other themes do. How would I update it?
Also, I just updated to WordPress 5.6 yesterday, but I was experiencing this issue before I updated. But like I said, I havent been on here for a year so I wouldnt be surprised if many things are outdated.
Thank you JNash for your kind words about my site. 🙂
You have done it once so should be good.
I’m not sure how long back the WP changed image src sets – but probably some time last year ( 5.4?)
The issue may or may not have shown in different browsers – it is likely jNash was using a different browser to us and nothing to do with eye sight. ( Mind you COVID has taken its toll on my eyes )
To be frank, without developer support, I wouldn’t risk trying to update your theme, just fix any issues ( like this ) as they come along, hopefully few and far between.
Thank you Fullworks.
another question…
I was trying to add a profile picture into my dashboard profile page for the blog. I already have a photo entered through Gravatar for a wordpress.com account. I was trying to figure out how to sync it with the wordpress.org account. It doesnt seem to be working. When I go to my profile on the gravatar page and click on websites and try to “add wordpress.com site” it brings up a button to “add checked” but there is nothing to check, so I cant seem to add it. Not sure what to do here.
I’m not sure I’m following you? As far as I understand Gravatars on your website are driven totally by email address, https://en.gravatar.com/emails/ just make sure your user email matches a Gravatar email
I went in to edit my profile and change my email address. It is an old email address that I rarely use anymore. It says that the new email address will not become active until it is confirmed by an email that they send me. It has been 24 hours and I have not received that confirmation email yet. Yes, I have checked my spam folder. Do I keep waiting? Should I do anything else at this point?
