Media Settings don’t include all four image sizes

  • I understand from the Code Reference that with version 4.4 of WordPress, a new, fourth image size was added to the existing three: a 768px size called medium_large.

    However, the Media Settings still list only the original three sizes (thumbnail, medium size, and large size). Consequently, if you want to change the size of the medium_large image or suppress its creation by setting the size to 0, you can’t do so from the admin dashboard unless you add a third-party plugin.

    This does not appear to be a plugin- or theme-specific issue, but rather an obnoxious omission from WordPress core.

    Am I missing something or is this a bug?

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  • You’re not missing anything, and it’s not a bug. From the announcement:

    The medium_large size is not included in the UI when selecting an image to insert in posts, nor are we including UI to change the image size from the media settings page. However, developers can modify the width of this new size using the update_option() function, similar to any other default image size.

    Given its purpose – which is to provide an intermediate size for responsive image markup, thus saving bandwidth and reducing load times – I don’t see why it would be necessary to change it. But if you absolutely must change it you can do it through code or a plugin.

    Thread Starter Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)

    I want to set it to 0 so it will stop being generated and cluttering up my Uploads folder with junk, so including it in the UI would have been a nice gesture. Not everyone is a developer!

    It’s not junk. It’s there to improve your site’s performance and bandwidth usage. There isn’t really a good reason to disable it for the vast majority of users, which is why there isn’t an option.

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