2.8 Thumbnails are HUGE!

Some themes and/or plugins replace the default gallery functions that may cause this. Perhaps check if your theme has been updated or look for add_filter( 'image_downsize', ... in functions.php there and try to comment it out.

I dont have that line in my functions.php.

Any other ideas?

I have nextgen gallery and photopress installed. However, even when I uninstall them, the images are still huge.

I guess I will have to downgrade to 2.7.1. I’ve updated every plugin, and checked my theme functions. Nothing seems to stick out.

No matter what, the thumbnails dont work.

Oh well. Maybe 2.8.1 will have some fixes.

disable the plugins, then try uploading a new set of images. then insert the gallery into a post and see if the images are still huge.

alternatively, it could be CSS causing the images to scale up. any code in your CSS that looks like this should be changed or removed:

... img {
width: XXXpx;
height: XXXpx;
}

Sounds like a worthy test (doing a new gallery). What about the old posts? That wont retroactively fix them will it.

nope. once a thumbnail has been generated, it’s the same size forever. the only thing you can do is scale them down with CSS.

Sounds like a worthy test (doing a new gallery). What about the old posts? That wont retroactively fix them will it.

Take a look in your dashboard -> Setting -> Media and then change the size of the thumbnails. I’m using lightbox for watching my blog’s pictures and if the plugin is activated then the size of my thumbnails is always huge (as you told us) 150*150 othewise if I disactive it, the thumbnails will get the size from the option that you set in the dashboard’s settings.

I wish I helped ya! ??