Scaled images in post

  • g3cko2

    (@g3cko2)


    10 years, 7 months ago

    Hello,

    To start, I’m very new to a lot of this so my apologies if this should be something to easily search for, I tried but I’m not too sure what to search for. I’m actually not even sure if this is theme specific or not.

    I’m trying to better understand how to optimize the “serve scaled images” recommendation from gtmetrix. What determines the size of the images in my posts? The full size of my photos is 1024 on the longest edge, but I’m not sure – are the images in the post based on a thumbnail, or just resized from the original size based on the theme?

    I like the size they display as in the posts, but I’d like to reduce the resolution (unless you click on them to view individually) so the page loads faster since they are never (afaict) 1024 in the post.

    Also, how involved would it be to change how vertical images are displayed? Maybe limit the longest edge to X pixels or something? The layout seems to be based on image width, so the portrait shots are quite large. Again, not sure if this is just general word press or theme specific.

    http://goo.gl/nWuEJr

    Thanks in advance,
    -Aaron

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  • Theme Author Ben Sibley

    (@bensibley)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Hi Aaron,

    Thanks for choosing Tracks!

    When you upload an image to WordPress, it automatically creates four different images:

    • Thumbnail
    • Medium
    • Large
    • Full size

    When you insert an image into the post content, you’ll see a Size dropdown menu in the bottom-right corner: screenshot. You can use this to select a smaller version of the uploaded image.

    By default, the Large version is always limited to 1024px, medium is 300px, and thumbnails are 150px. However, you can change the default sizes via the Media Settings menu: screenshot.

    I think setting the medium size to around 600px would work well for your images. After you change the size, you can then run this plugin to auto-update all of the medium versions of your images: https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

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