How to stop Add Media resizing images

  • this is driving me bonkers, I have seen before but can’t remember what does this.

    I import an image into a post using Add Media and it resizes to 300 wide (medium)

    in the media library it shows it with dimensions 728×90 for example

    why does WP auto change an image to Medium size, and how to stop it

    please advise
    thanks

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  • Wordpress actually creates a number of images of different sizes when you upload an image. This allows WordPress to use whichever size picture is appropriate.

    For example, when you upload a large image, but your front page shows a thumbnail images of it (if you are using featured images, for example), WordPress will serve up a smaller version of that image, rather than the full size version (which it would then have to resize via html). This makes your site load faster (and also saves some wear and tear on your server).

    This is actually desired behavior.

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