Feature request – Media & Text block change size of image

  • I wish you could change the size of the image in the media/text block. Trying to get it to look nice so that there’s enough text to be the same size as the image is almost impossible. I don’t know why the new theme seems to prefer images in big old blocks in the center of posts since that seems to be what every bloody block defaults to. I miss floating images left or right, putting text next to them, then being able to put in a new div and have another paragraph with an image floating left or right.

    I’m trying to do a list of products with the image on one side and the description on the other and I cannot understand why I can’t just change the bloody size of the bloody image. Over and over, I find that I loathe Gutenberg because you give up so much control! And then next year, webpage styles will be different and we’ll have to update everything again!

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  • Hi @walton!

    Is the resize handle that appears in-between the image and the text not enough for what you need?

    https://cldup.com/Bitbuxq-Rf.png

    Thread Starter Walton

    (@walton)

    Oh, I had no idea that was what that thing was. Thanks. This is yet another thing I hate about Gutenberg. All these weird random things appear and you don’t know what they are. Before, you could learn css or html and transfer those skills to WordPress.

    And it’s ok, but it doesn’t have any numeric value to it so I can’t ensure that if I have 2 or 3 of those in my post that all the images are the same size. Nor can I ensure that the text and image will be balanced. I have to just keep trying a size, hitting preview, then trying another size. Instead of taking my post width, and doing some simple division and subtraction and figuring out how to make the image the right size.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by Walton.
    • This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by Walton.

    In case you’re interested, there’s a pull request on the GitHub repository that aims to address this: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/14483

    Thread Starter Walton

    (@walton)

    That’s great That would be much better. I was just working on an attribute page in WooCommerce and it was just so nice how I placed my image, floated it left, used the img width in html to control the size, and my text flowed around it!

    I didn’t know that’s how that middle bar functioned either, but I still wish there was more flexibility for adjusting image size relative to text, not just text size relative to image. Thanks for the help though!

    Having a drag handle for custom ratio/size is nice, however, not having control over the actual image size causes a myriad of trouble, including incorrect srcset/sizes attributes by the filter (resulting in extremely blurry or unnecessarily oversized/large images) – which is, by the way, the side effect of another still unresolved issue in WordPress, namely that the image context is not passed to the filter responsible for the right sizes attribute values (@see https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/36982)…

    I TOTALLY agree here. What if we want to create two Reusable blocks (Media + text) with identical image/text ratios? How can we do that? How can we see the image size? This is totally random and there is no proper control. Also, editing / creating a Reusable Block (a great asset) is so unnecessarily difficult. As Walton says, you have to “create” it about 6 times, “trying” this and that each time. Waaay too time consuming.

    And it’s SO clunky and difficult to get text to flow nicely around an image. This really needs to be addressed.

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