No watermarks on original Image

Hello,

_scaled does not come from the Easy Watermark plugin. EW adds a watermark to already existing image sizes and does not create any other sizes. These can come from other plugins or from WordPress itself.

On your watermark edit page, you can mark image sizes that you want to have watermarked in the Applying Rules box. Watermark will be applied only on the image sizes that you have marked, no matter what way of applying you use.

Note that your list of available image sizes may be different than the one sent as the example, as some plugins create their own image sizes, like WooCommerce in the example screenshot.

This is NOT resolved and the support poster has a point!

Since WordPress 5.3, WP has had a feature so that it automatically scales any image above 2560 pixels (this is basically a nice feature). It then simply adds an image named _scaled and uses that in the code instead of the original.

This means for some reason that Easy Watermark does not watermark neither the original image nor the scaled one. I just tested it (again) and I have the same problem on a live site. It never scales the original image!

I just checked and double checked, both on my live site and on a sandbox. I suggest you do the same.

To the poster:

You can disable this new feature by following this guide. Basically, add the filter

add_filter( 'big_image_size_threshold', '__return_false' );

in your theme functions. That way, Easy Watermark will work again, I just checked. (For some reason, I have a 150px thumb which is watermarked too, even though I disabled watermarks for the 150px thumb… that is another can of worms though.

BTW: If you like the feature of auto-scaling the full size picture, use Imsanity. That will likely work with Easy Watermark because it doesn’t do anything under the hood.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by ppehrson.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by ppehrson.

Dear both. Many thanks for your valuable feedback. I will correct some things.

I keep this as resolved, as my individual need are fully covered by now. And I appreciate providing feedback to an already resolved post.

Hi @ppehrson

You are right about the WordPress scaling mechanism. If you upload an image larger than 2560px it will be scaled down and saved with the -scaled suffix. WordPress then uses this image as a full-size image instead of the original. Easy Watermark does not need to know if the image has been scaled or not. If your watermark is configured to be applied to a full-size image then it will get applied to the scaled one. I’ve just tested it a few times and can assure you it works this way.

Also, there is no possibility that the size you disabled gets watermarked anyway. Please note, that sometimes the image you see can be a different size than you expect. For example in the WordPress admin area in Media Library there are square thumbs which are in fact of medium size, not the thumbnail size as you might think.

If you still experience issues with Easy Watermark please create a new support topic and describe the problem.