Inserting images: no longer have image size options other than full

  • Resolved adamlang

    (@adamlang)


    7 years, 9 months ago

    The problem:
    Until quite recently, when I uploaded an image and then selected that image and went to insert it, I was given the choice of different image sizes: small, medium, large, and full. Maybe thumbnail too, I can’t recall. Now, when I insert, I am only given one size choice: full. When I insert, it puts the image in a window in the proper size for my site, which is fine, but it still loads the full-sized image over the wire, and then scales it client-side, which is HORRIBLE for my site performance.

    Site information:

    • Hosted by me
    • Running behind nginx, which does https->http mappings and one-minute in-memory caching of some stuff. Performance is quite good for a one-man band.
    • WordPress itself is running on ubuntu, latest long-term support build, under apache2
    • Running on PHP5 because holy crap did it break the entire thing when I tried to upgrade to 7
    • Plugins: Askimet, Custom Sidebars, Ecwid Shopping Cart, Google Analytics for WordPress by Monsterinsights, Jetpack by WordPress.com, Search Everything, Subscribe to Comments Reloaded, and Yoast SEO
    • Theme: 2010 with a very small child theme (what I call 2010 Puppy)

    Troubleshooting steps:

    • Turned off all plugins. No effect
    • Changed themes to 2016. No effect
    • Reinstalled 4.8 manually, including using stock versions of every single file that is in the archive to overwrite the files in my site, leaving only files that hadn’t existed before. No effect

    At this point my site is mildly broken (I had changed a file or two) but not in any unexpected ways, and is as close to factory settings as I am capable of imagining getting it, and the problem still hasn’t gone away.

    Help?

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  • Thread Starter adamlang

    (@adamlang)

    Could this perhaps be a missing php5 plugin for image scaling? I did upgrade my ubuntu recently, and had some problems with missing php5 software when php7 went kablooie. If so, can anyone tell me what I have to install?

    Thread Starter adamlang

    (@adamlang)

    GD was installed, but imagemagick/imagick was not. Also discovered that this had been going on for a lot longer than I assumed, since about the time I upgraded to 4.7. So that’s nice.

    As soon as I installed imagick, this started working fine.

    Would, I guess, have been nice to have been informed of new package requirements.

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