Megapixels is not megabytes

  • Nice plugin, but to me, megapixels is a difficult thing to grok.
    I had thought this was the same as megabytes (MB) but not so!
    Imagine my surprise when uploading a 1280×720 size image, and it came out 965×543!
    I had thought that a setting of .5 megapixels would be .5 MB, or 500K, which was a relatively safe file size for this particular project. I guess I should have taken the suggested 1.5 megapixel setting instead!

    If this happens to you, here is a workaround.
    Use FTP to upload your files back into the wp-content/uploads directory.
    Then use the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin, and in theory, that should then re-establish your new dimensions for the images.

    It can be cumbersome if you have set your Media Uploads to be month-based folders, incidentally, but overall this may save some work of re-uploading manually.

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