choonthen

Hi Lina (@linaasenova),

I think you are right. I compared images with and without captions. Those without captions are clear. For my blogs, I do not want to delete the captions because they are part and partial of the story-telling. I find it hard to understand though that the latest version of WordPress would force this default on all their users unless they change the CSS.

Hi@asadz,

Thank you for the input.

I am not a developer and know nothing about CSS. So, I am a bit nervous about inserting any CSS until I understand what has caused this situation and what your proposed code means. Could you elaborate a bit on why I have these blurry images?

Is there any other easier way I can fix this without tempering with the CSS?

Hi@linaasenova

I tried deactivating the plugins one by one and saw no improvement in the images.

My blog posts contain a lot of photos. I use an image resizer (icecream) that I purchase to reduce the image size from 2-4 MB per image down to about 400 KB before inserting them into my blog posts. These resized images look good before I insert them.

When the website was designed, I was told by the developer that the images would be resized automatically (I do not have to manually resize them) but I had resized the images using the icecream image resizer instead.

• This reply was modified 1 day, 5 hours ago by choonthen.

Hi threadi, thank you for your input.

Hi Lina,

Thanks for the advice. The problem was solved when I updated WordPress to the latest version.

Before that, deactivating all the plugins, and changing the browser did not help.

I am just puzzled why this happened so suddenly after I have been using the old version for years.

So, thank you very much!

Hi Jamie,

Thanks for taking the time to advise.

Sounds complicated. 1) If it involves changing the code, it will be beyond me because I just write blogs. In this case, do I need to hire a designer to change the code, or at least look for the bug? 2) I think you are right. The menu actually displays a category. I have been trying to play with it but so far still unsuccessful. Will look for help.

Thank you.

Thank you so much!

Sorry, I misspoke. I have actually used the defaults:

• thumbnail: 150×150
• medium: 600×600
• large: 1280×1280

The images now look great. I will in the future change all images to “medium” if there are 2 or more in one row.

The use of snippets is a bit too much for me. I just have to tolerate the caption outside the image in that situation.

I just found that 3 of my post photos have been distorted by the use of classic editor when I was trying to fix the problem of the blurry imgaes. For exmaple:

How to explore Luang Prabang’s temples, rivers and waterfalls 2/3 2023 (Stop 8) – Perfect Then

To party and have a good time in Vang Vienne, Laos 3/2023 (Stop 9) – Perfect Then

Genocide and the killing fields re-lived, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia 3/2023 (Stop 11) – Perfect Then

Do you have any suggestion? I tried redoing one of the posts but it took to much time to redo them.

Sorry for troubling you.

I tried your suggestions on my latest post See divided Cyprus and the only divided capital in the world in 6 days 6/2023 (Stop 6) – Perfect Then, i.e. changing the defaults to:

• Thumbnail is 50×50 (cropped)
• Medium is 150×150
• Large is 300×300

, and changed all my photos that I resized, to width:2560, height: 1280. When these resized photos were inserted into the posts, they came out sharp without any further interference from me. The only negative is the images each take up about 400 kb, which is more than the less than 200 kb each previously. I also found that, when there is only one photo in the block, the caption is displayed outside the photo. But I can live with both these side effects. So, I am happy this problem is resolved. Thank you so much!

Hi Luk4,

Thank you. Much appreciated.

I tried to match the dimensions but couldn’t quite figure out how to locate them. Anyway, the direction you pointed out is an excellent one. From this lead, I discovered that, if I change the image size under Block option to “Full Size”, the images became markedly sharper. I think setting it to “thumbnail” would also be quite ok.

For some reason the current image setting has all been set to “Large”. So, I have to change each photo individually to “Full Size”. Do you know by any chance how to set the default to “Full Size”. I have googled but the answers seem complicated and unclear.

Thank you so much.