Image sizes

  • Resolved bggg12

    (@bggg12)


    5 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,
    could you please give me some advice regarding the media settings: Do you recommend changing these at all? I know WP is using responsive images and thus creating multiple sizes of images, based on the media settings. But what if I have all different sizes on my site, i.e. I have multiple full width full height images, but also 4:3, square, 3:2 in all different sizes. Some are displayed at 1300px on desktop, some at 800px on desktop. So should I change the default media settings and if yes, to what?

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  • Thread Starter bggg12

    (@bggg12)

    Is this support forum here still being monitored?

    Theme Author sukiwp

    (@sukiwp)

    Hi,

    Sorry for the delay.

    You don’t need to worry about the image sizes generated by WordPress. When using images inside a post or page, you can choose the image size that you want to use. If you create your image to be in actual size, you should choose “Full” size when embedding an image into your post or page.

    Regards

    Thread Starter bggg12

    (@bggg12)

    Hi,
    thanks for the reply. So is it not bad for performance if I don’t change the media settings and let WP create all those image sizes that are never needed on the site? Will that not slow down the site? For example the default 1024 x 1024 would never be used if all my images are 4:3 or 3:2 ratio…

    Theme Author sukiwp

    (@sukiwp)

    Yes, the unused generated images won’t slow down your website. They only take your server’s hard disk space.

    By the way, for “medium” and “large” image sizes, WordPress will keep the original image size ratio.

    For example, you uploaded 1200×900 image (4:3 ratio). WordPress will generate 1024×768 (4:3 ratio) instead of 1024×1024.

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