Background Image is always medium-size

  • Test with WP 6.7.1 + Themes “Twenty Sixteen”, “GeneratePress”

    Whenever selecting in Background an image from media library, the “medium size” is taken, not the original/full size as expected and needed.

    As result it can be used with “repeat”, but looks really terrible with “cover” (which is a very common usage) in larger selectors, because the unnecessary small image is stretched and looses its quality.

    It works with manual editing of the image url, but that is very bad UX in a visual CSS editor ??

    • This topic was modified 3 months, 4 weeks ago by burnuser.
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  • Plugin Author Themeover

    (@bastywebb)

    Hey, thanks for reporting this.

    The size of the thumbnail is actually set via the WordPress media manager popup. It’s at the bottom right, and might be cut off if your screen isn’t particularly big.

    I’ll have a think about how to make this feature better!

    Cheers,
    Sebastian

    Thread Starter burnuser

    (@burnuser)

    Thank You for the quick response!

    It works as you explained.

    But i would have never found the solution without your hint …

    Maybe – at least – “full size” as default?

    Plugin Author Themeover

    (@bastywebb)

    Yes, I think that would help. Although perhaps “Large” might be best if that size is available, just to prevent users accidentally adding images that are multiple megabytes in size. I think the optimum solution would be to have sizing options clearly presented next to the “Insert into post” button, which is always in view on the footer bar. I’ll see what I can do there.

    Cheers!
    Sebastian

    Thread Starter burnuser

    (@burnuser)

    Oh, I think fullsize is not the problem since WordPress limits all images on upload to max. 2560 px – and calls this reduced image when selecting “fullsize”.

    And WordPress itself uses also only fullsize – in Customizer (Classic Themes), in Website-Editor (FSE) Styles – Background and in every background-image option in Gutenberg.

    So, fullsize is common default.

    Plugin Author Themeover

    (@bastywebb)

    Oh great, that’s good to know. I’ve just implemented this improvement on my development branch (full size is the default, and there is a menu next to the (renamed) “Insert Image” button). This version will be released in a week or so.

    Thanks for all of your feedback and input!

    Sebastian

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