Comments on: Default WordPress Image Sizes and How to Add Proper Custom Sizes

By: kubba pubba

kubba pubba — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 06:47:49 +0000

It was incredibly helpful and gave me a better understanding of the topic. It was well-researched, clearly written, and easy to understand.

I love these great findings! Thanks for sharing!

By: Middlelab

Middlelab — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 19:32:42 +0000

“Images are like pants: you want to make sure you get the right size. Pants and images that are too small look silly and it’s painfully obvious to you and everyone else that they don’t fit right. By contrast, if they’re too large, that’s super wasteful. You wouldn’t put a pair of pants made for a man on a baby, right? It’s so much extra fabric that isn’t even necessary. That baby is going to get lost in a pant leg ;)”

But my baby is obese =D

By: Daniel Peres

Daniel Peres — Thu, 26 May 2022 01:55:23 +0000

I believe that the biggest problem we face with this is the disk space that the images end up taking up. Some themes don’t exactly limit the sizes of generated thumbnails. especially when converting image to webp. but with this post, we got good tips to optimize the process.

By: Álvaro Novais

Álvaro Novais — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 01:59:00 +0000

“As you start creating custom image sizes, avoid going overboard and creating images for every conceivable purpose. Otherwise, you’ll burn through space on your hosting and if you’re using an image optimization service that charges you per image, you’re going to go through your image allowance a whole lot faster.”

This happens with some frequency.

By: Fatih Kilic

Fatih Kilic — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 03:03:35 +0000

Hi there,

As you can see here: https://goldenrose.de/product/velvet-matte-lipstick/?attribute_verfuegbare-farben=11

My variable image sizes are OVER THE ROOF (haha).

Blurred and large.

I tried customize > woocommerce
and wordpress > media
I also regenerated my thumbnails, but to no avail.

How could I make sure the ZOOMED IN picture calm down?

Thanks!

By: On

On — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 13:39:19 +0000

Hi thanks for your detailed post.
I’m not a dev and I’m driving crazy, I have as heavy image site so recently I learned a new technic that allows me to compress the pictures to half the size via Export instead to save for web legacy in photoshop. So the pics instead of around 900 kb are 250 kb, so far so good. However the display image is over 1.1 mb…
Everything is disable so nothing to do with that. After a lot of time I manage to see the “library” in the Site Admin, for my surprise I have lots of picture sizes, ok after your post I understand the point. Which I can’t ,manage to understand why my original and full size picture 1900 x 1200 is about 731 kb but the version 1400x 713 (generated by the WP) is 1.03 Mb
It seems that the tool to downsize the file is making a really bad job at it. It would be better to just have a better pixel size with a lower kb count or the best would be that not only the size it self would be smaller but also the file size.
It’s driving me crazy, specially as I told I can manage to make the 731 kb down to 200 kb but the WP still servers the 1.03 Mb file rendering pointless the effort of re uploading all the files and thus having a slower site.
Any light on this subject would be deeply appreciated

By: Predrag Dubajic

Predrag Dubajic — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 08:43:23 +0000

In reply to Kion.

Hi Kion,

Gutenberg dropdown will only show an available option if there’s actually thumbnail of that size.
Adding the code will not create thumbnails of your existing images right away, you will need to either use a plugin like Regenerate Thumbnails or upload new images and once the proper thumbnails are created the option should show up in dropdown as well :)

Cheers,
Predrag

By: Kion

Kion — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:27:51 +0000

Hello, I have followed exactly what you have done but my custom image size didn’t show up as an option for the drop-down in the Gutenberg image block, any idea how to solve this..?

By: Felicia Ceballos-Marroquin

Felicia Ceballos-Marroquin — Thu, 09 May 2019 20:29:38 +0000

In reply to Brent.

Brent,

WordPress centers the image “in the frame” then crops what is outside the frame. So to answer your question, yes, it would crop 100px from each side.

By: Dimitris

Dimitris — Thu, 09 May 2019 17:11:14 +0000

In reply to Brent.

Hello there Brent

You can control how the cropping is going to happen, please check the following: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_image_size/#crop-mode
:)

Warm regards,
Dimitris