Please explain why some Insert Media have image sizes and others don’t

  • Hi, I’m fairly new to WordPress and noticed that depending on the Plugin, when I insert an image sometimes it has the ability to choose one of the other sizes and sometimes not.

    Insert Media into a Post (see bottom right – has size picker)
    2019-10-13_2013

    Insert an Image into a Slider (3rd party plugin) – does NOT have the size picker?
    2019-10-13_2012

    Reason is that the slider uses the FULL image size which is huge and affects page speed.

    How can I get the size picker?

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  • As you say, it’s up to the plugin.
    I imagine it would be complicated to choose a size for each image in a slider.
    So you have the choice of finding a different plugin or asking the plugin author to add an option. (unless you can code, then you can change the plugin code yourself)

    Plugins are developed by different people with different skill sets. There no real standard as to what a plugin contains. It really up to the developer to decide what the plugin will do and how it will do it. You would have to talk to the developer to see if he willing to include a method to resize the image on the next release.

    Thread Starter rodneyjoyce

    (@rodneyjoyce)

    Ok, thank you for confirming.

    IMO the size picker is needed because all images need to be similar size for the slider to look good – My Full images are always big resolution like 2000 * 1000 and I rely on WP to do the resizing so I get the best looking smaller images. All the images need to be roughly the same size so being able to pick the 300 * y option here would be good (not to mention that the FULL images should almost never be used due to their filesize)

    I would imaging that there is a standard function call to take in an “Open Image Picker” modal and that one of the options is to say whether it has the size picker or not. Any idea what that call might look like so I can scan for it in the code?

    I’ll take it up with the plugin author – I might have to find another one…

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