Yes, I think this is a great, fundamental question of WordPress editing and content creation by low-level users who are met with the big blank editing area and don’t know how to wrangle html. There are myriad answers: hardcore coding, softcore coding, plugins and everything in-between. The answer for me is Advanced Custom Fields. I … Read more
What you’re asking for is functionally equivalent to scaling images to fit within a bounding square of each size, so could be achieved with this: add_image_size(‘big_xxl’, 4500, 4500); add_image_size(‘big_xl’, 3300, 3300); add_image_size(‘big’, 2100, 2100); add_image_size(‘medium’, 1250, 1250); Consider a landscape image that is 5000×500. These rules will generate images scaled to 4500, 3300, 2100 and … Read more
There are various ways to run another WP_Query with a tax query and collect the ID’s into the include attribute of the gallery shortcode. Let’s try another approach, without running a secondary WP_Query. Native gallery: Support taxonomy and term attributes We introduce the following custom gallery shortcode attributes: Here’s a demo plugin that supports that … Read more
Depends. One argument could be that if the requested page use all sizes then there will be a lot of image calls (slower response, bandwidth etc) but you can bypass that i.e. by loading images with JS. Also more sizes means more disk space usage. I don’t think there is any significant performance concern related … Read more
For the specific display you will need to re-open the IGW by clicking on the preview image in the post/page then under the customizations tab change the override thumbnail size option to yes and set the dimensions as needed. You may need to clear your image cache under Gallery > Other Options > Miscellaneous to … Read more
Featured image sizes are mostly likely controlled by your theme, so I would look there. Maybe there is a theme setting for it. You can also check the following setting to see if it us using one of those sizes. You can change the featured image size by adding this code into your functions.php file. … Read more
This is a very good question. The answer to the referenced post requires a change to the WP options. They are stored in the database in the wp_options table (assuming wp_ is your prefix). There are a few ways to change these in this case: Direct DB access: if you’re comfortable modifying the WP DB … Read more
Try this function filter_image_sizes() { foreach ( get_intermediate_image_sizes() as $size ) { if (in_array( $size, array(‘medium’, ‘medium_large’, ‘large’) ) ) { remove_image_size( $size ); } } } add_action(‘init’, ‘filter_image_sizes’);
In order for wp_generate_attachment_metadata() to work properly in that it creates a thumbnail and other intermediate/image sizes like medium and large, the image attachment/post data must have the proper MIME type (post_mime_type), and despite you did set it in your $attachment array (the post data), there’s a problem with this part in your code: $wp_filetype … Read more
Unfortunately, I’ve found the images within Gutenberg/block editor a lot left to be desired and the development work with images in 2020 has been primarily focused on adding cropping, rotating images within the block editor. The limitations of responsive images in the block editor is one of my biggest criticisms of the block editor. What … Read more