Images are squished in 5.5

  • In most of my articles, I insert an image that I leave in the default alignment and without any resizing. WP automatically sizes it properly so that in the live view, it sits within the post region at the true aspect ratio.

    Since 5.5, all these images are now squished and distorted. It seems to only apply to images whose original width is greater than the width of the post region. Also, the image only seems to appear distorted on desktop, not mobile.

    This is a disaster, because I now have squished images on hundreds of different articles across my site. It would take a huge amount of time to adjust them all.

    I had to restore a previous version of my site to get it off 5.5. Please fix this ASAP!

    If this isn’t the right place to post this, please direct me to the correct forum.

    Edit: It seems that 5.5 is keeping the original dimensions of the image in the live view, instead of removing them like before.

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    I had to restore a previous version of my site to get it off 5.5. Please fix this ASAP!

    It’s possible that was an issue with your theme.

    Before reverting back to previous version of WP, did you try switching to the default theme (twenty twenty…) to rule out any theme conflict?

    Thread Starter Paul

    (@pbgeneral)

    I don’t want to change the theme on my live (very active) site. I’ll see if my theme provider has a fix.

    You can follow along the Trac ticket where this issue has been reported too. It may very well be an issue with the theme you’re using (image overflow should be prevented with CSS rules such as max-width: 100%; height: auto) – please chime in if you have more details to share.

    Thread Starter Paul

    (@pbgeneral)

    What jeslen reported is exactly the issue I’m having. I really couldn’t have described it any better. Why is width and height being added to non-resized images if it’s not necessary?

    @t-p Sounds good. Sorry for that.

    So I did add “max-width: 100%; height: auto” to my code…but it did not help with the issue. Any other solutions for that?

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