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Exactly. I’m afraid they invested into this so much, they are stubborn to the extreme on following their agenda.

Thanks Danny, very kind of you. Will up the ratings, not to spoil the chain of fivers. ??

Hi Danny,

Yes, the changes you did have reset all of those. I had Gfonts in Navigation, H1, H2, H3 and H4.

Luckily I found the fonts by memory and wrote them down this time.

No, sorry, I don’t need any plugin to perform that.

Since Gutenberg wants to be “cutting edge” it should offer much better customization without any dumbing down, as it currently has.

The current WP has some rather bad image handling, because:

1. Default JPG compression for generated images looks very bad.

1a. Changing compression to 100% by coding in functions.php makes the images look clean (the current option I use to have clean 150×150 thumbnails), but are almost 2x the size than those optimized in Photoshop.

2. WP removes all built-in ICC profiles of all generated images. That’s a shame, since all current browsers support ICC profiles.
Even when images are using default sRGB values, they show better when they have the profile built-in. Images with no color profiles tend to have the reddish cast or be oversaturated, compared to the original.

Currently, I use WP to generate 150×150 thumbnails and small-sized images for smartphones. I wouldn’t let WP touch any of my images on my normal, desktop/tablet-sized blog. No thank you.

Gutenberg is further dumbing down this because it handles the upload itself, without any prompt for the user and decides itself what resolution to use in a post. Another no thank you from me.

Just an example. I save my images to 1200px resolution, sRGB profiled. My blog posts have 840px width. WP sees that and thinks “well, his native images are larger than needed. Let’s use 1024x generated ones instead”. Gutenberg agrees.

I end up seeing WP generated image on my post, that does not have the color profile (colors are oversaturated) and is almost 2x the size than my 1200px one because there’s no compression (see 1a above). So nothing it tried to accomplish worked.

Why am I using 1200px images on 840px posts? To be future-proof. Photoshop optimization is fantastic, the file size difference is negligible, scaling via css/html is so good, there’s no loss in sharpness.

So please make an option for Gutenberg to use “full size” images. Not all of us are ignorant when it comes to image editing, optimization & uploading.

Thanks Steven!

Thanks Steven for directing me here.

However, this still doesn’t address my issue. I have no problem WP having compressed thumbnails for its own admin purposes and small icons. However, I want WP to always use my own native images, without touching it and without _any_ of its creations in my posts.

Thanks Andrew.
WPyogi, I never said that developers should quit, but release minor updates slightly less often, every month or so. For example, I remember when Catch Box released a new version with Czech & French translation only. Nothing more nothing less. In my opinion, that was a very minor thing, not worth issuing a new version.

Nope… I modified the existing one. I assume it’s easier with a child theme, as there’s no hassle, but again, I’m really annoyed with so many frequent updates – themes, plugins, applications & programs, fixing trivial issues. Feels like developers only want to get noticed.

Thanks. I managed to leave everything intact and just use —> more option to split the text without using featured image. That way I have both image and the text.

I got it – I haven’t set the featured image.

However, is it possible to display the featured image in its native size, untouched, without any resaving to jpg and compression?

That’s what I wanted to know… No image displayed, just text.

It would be MUCH better aesthetically and literary if the theme would cut the excerpt at the end of the first paragraph, not the word count.

Yes I have WP_Cache enabled…. no use.

I tried everything you said but still get the dreaded message.

Why the authors never respond when their plugin is not working?!
This is the 3rd twitter plugin that I tried.

This message is annoying as hell. I constantly get it and what’s worse the author of this widget does not respond.

Same here… it’s not updating the widget… and the author is not responding. ??