Image padding and border issues with WordPress 3.9

Thanks, DesignSimply!

Just to echo, prior to 3.9 I would edit nearly every image using the editor. Due to the varied nature of images I cannot edit a standard in css. I run numerous wordpress sites and luckily have not updated any more. I try to avoid plugins wherever possible so a plugin is not the issue.

If developers read this please return the functionality that was in 3.8. This update is already costing me about 10 minutes every day. I can edit code, css but a lot of people cannot.

My clients who mange their own wordpress will not be able to do what they need through 3.9 so if I upgrade I will be on the phone continuously to them.

WordPress is great but please put the image editing features back.

@designsimply well said! Thanks for summarizing the best approach for getting improvements.

@mizejewski, cheers. ??

Just to echo, prior to 3.9 I would edit nearly every image using the editor.

That sounds like a lot of extra work you probably don’t need to be doing!

Due to the varied nature of images I cannot edit a standard in css.

It would really help your cause to post a specific example of what exactly you’re trying to do with the images and why not having the options that were there before is a burden. Include a screenshot of how content looks without changing the options if at all possible, or a link.

My clients who mange their own WordPress will not be able to do what they need through 3.9

Which is what??

I know complaining is easy to do, especially in forums, but it really doesn’t further any cause in open source to say you don’t like something without specifics—and even then a change may not be made, but without specifics, the chances of another change are closer to zero. Solid examples of clients’ step-by-step process or a screenshot showing how things look without the options are possible ways to move the conversation forward. Actually, I was wondering if I could help solve some of the problems people are running into by providing workarounds such as explaining how to add a little CSS to update margins and borders for images all at once, but no one has posted any specific example links.

Big mistake to eliminate image controls for padding. A goof. An error. So please just bring those controls back. Basic controls like this are core. They should not have been taken out.

Please bring back the image formatting options…
3.9 is a nightmare!
WordPress is deteriorating before our eyes with these “improvements” ??

Please bring back the ability to pad images and remove borders…. quickly.
Is there a way to go back to version 3.8 until they resolve this?

There’s nothing to resolve. Those features were removed from WordPress 3.9 and they’re not coming back any time soon, by all accounts. Try installing https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/advanced-image-styles/ instead or use a theme that handles image display correctly via it’s own CSS.

I was hoping it was just me overlooking something or maybe that the border / padding function had been relocated. But no, it’s gone. Sure, I eventually got the job done adding extra HTML for each image, but it took so much longer than it would have with previous versions of the image editor.

What’s up, WP? Of all the editing functions to eliminate, why THIS ONE?? It was so useful and such a time-saver. I won’t go back to the old WP version because there are vulnerability issues I don’t want to expose my sites to, but I am not happy with this added inconvenience. I thought my days of coding longhand were over.

It was so useful and such a time-saver.

It was also wrong. This kind of image display should be handled by your theme’s CSS – not by markup. That Goes for all kinds of sites – not just WordPress ones.

Even if you were to write up some custom classes in your style sheets for specific images you would still have to notate the class in the source of your post or page.

Not saying this is the most copacetic way to do this, but for those who are desperate to have quick access to borders and padding, you can,if you choose, drop into ‘text’ mode and add the style attribute directly into the img src tag. It’s almost faster to type this in than to use the old text-box-update routine.

See the following. Add the style”” attribute.:

<img class=”alignleft wp-image-127″ style=”padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px; border:3px solid black;” src=”https://www.yourwebsiteurl/imagepath/image.png&#8221; alt=”IMG_0915″ width=”281″ height=”157″ />

Even if you were to write up some custom classes in your style sheets for specific images you would still have to notate the class in the source of your post or page.

That’s incorrect. In a properly written theme, you can target specific images on a page using CSS based on the classes generated by WordPress automatically.

True enough, my bad. Seems that the want here is a quick fix for some lost text boxes.

It seems that most of the people who want to edit padding and borders on each image are fundamentally not grasping what @esmi is saying. This post explains the reasons more thoroughly: https://mor10.com/using-css-classes-fields-wordpress/

Yup, adding class selectors is exactly the way this should be done. That Image CSS Class box merely adds (notates, appends, however you want to put it) the new selector to the Class=”” attribute of the <img> tag in the source of the post or page it’s being created for.

That said, right or wrong, the gui is meant to take coding anything *away* from end users. So it’s plugin time for most non-coders. It might be interesting to see what kind of conventions can get broken when these new plugins start to percolate up. I guess the good news is WordPress doesn’t have to worry about it any more. ??