rmorin

Thanks! This is the kind of information I was looking for. So I can try to increase the RAM until Hostgator stop me (mouhahahaha).

Actually I can go in the 2000 range but got an explosion somewhere in the 3000 range.

This kind of hack is well inside my day to day job, but it will be issue with collaborators. My main point against such a hack it’s that the “big image” won’t be available in all the fancy stuff of WP ecosystem.

Thanks again, this should be documented something like: “-WP recommended maximum size image”. I’ll continue to dig but without looking to “FIX my WP”.

I’m ad it’s small 2000px wide, a lot of today screen are in this range.

Hi thanks for the answer, but yes I can assign 1GB of memory.
See php configuration (dear visitor from the future, this like may not work anymore since exposing server internal information is not a good security practice: http://dewors.ninja/phpinfo.php)

I do agree with you that wordpress is not an image editor, I just want him to generate thumbnails for his own UI. I really want very big image (panorama) to be displayed in my blog. It will be a photography blog with big panorama you can open on your 4K screen, I have nice shots of birds with feathers details so nice. I don’t want to refactor all my blog in 2 years because 4K screen is now the norm.

I listen to full HD streaming video everyday over http, I manage these large panorama on my phone! Somehow it’s normal I cannot upload 6MB picture of a sunset? Ok, I can display it, it’s WP UI who can’t handle it because it need the thumbnail to work properly otherwise the full image is used (in my case) and shrink with CSS. When you have a lot of such image… it become so slow it’s useless.

I’m kind of sad because I have some knowledge of wordpress, and I have already use some advanced theme… now I think I will need to learn an other blog engine / CMS. So I come back to my question: what is the limit in wordpress?
A variable? somehow it’s not the memory (or is 1GB still not enough?)?