henrik.haugberg

There is only one option in the size dropdown, and that is full size. I guess that is probably because there is no variant files generated on the server.

In case the theme had any effects on uploads in the media lib, I tried to change to one of the standard themes, “Twenty Fifteen”, and then uploaded a new image. No variants generated, only the original image in the server upload directory.

This is in norwegian, but I that should not be a problem. It is the WP config for the media library. Is there any other configuration that could cause WP not to generate the variants of uploads?

http://imageshack.com/a/img909/352/Po0Nmz.png

You can do that will css, for example

img {
height:500px;
width:500px
}

That’s exactly what I want to avoid. That makes the browser load the whole original file, and just scale down in the client side. Since that even happens in the WP admin media library now, the whole browser almost stop working when I open the media lib, because it is so much data to transfer, and so much to scale down in the browser. I want the server to scale the image, so the client can download the scaled version, making the transfer size much smaller.

To clarify, the default installation of WordPress does actually create different sized images from your original image when you upload it. People have also made plugins that enhance that.

I’m not sure why you think differently?

I have a clean 4.3 installation, and it does not scale my images. I uploaded an image to the media library in WP admin, and it is displayed with the original size everywhere, even in the small thumbnails in the media library. Just scaled down with css, see screenshot: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img905/9968/p53uBS.png

So if the software are different, I guess the question can be changed to: Does anyone know any plugin that make it possible to have images resized serverside to any size based on query parameters, similar to how it is done in WP.com installations?

http://178.62.170.79/

Here are an image from the .com site: https://greenforkblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/img_6513-r2.jpg?w=720&h=426&crop=1
If you change the w/h query params, WP scaled the image based on the high res original.

On the .org site, the blog show this url without query parameters: http://178.62.170.79/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/img_6513-r2.jpg

If I try to add them manually, I still get the full res image.

Is there s plugin that fix this (without having to add the query params manually) that is preinstalled on WordPress.com sites?

Yes. I want the original image in the media library, but scaled images to be displayed.

When an image is displayed in a post, in a 800px wide container, there is no point displaying my original 6000×4000 px image from the camera. However, i don’t want the images in the media lib scaled down to 800px, because if I later decided to change template to one where the container showing posts is 1200px wide, I don’t want the images to be scaled up from 800 to 1200, as that will not look good. So I want the originals in the lib, and scaled to the required size when being displayed.

Most CMS do this automatically (at least the last 5-10 years) and most of them in any size, not just a couple of predefined sizes. WordPress.com work this way (with the query params mentioned in my the first post), but I have not found out how to get this feature in the self-hosted WP 4.3 I just set up.