All of a sudden when I upload a new image to WP via the “set featured image” box in post editor, WP is autoresizing them and shrinking them. For example, my banner images are all 1280px wide and WP is making them 300px wide. I have tried uploading featured images via post editor and also uploading directly via Media new image. I am not inserting images into posts and choosing a size – WP is doing this outside of that. Any thoughts?
Hello,
Normally, when you upload an image in media this should be updated in full size and the theme and WordPress will create some thumbs and those can be added instead of the full image size – https://imgur.com/UVlTXgy
Also, there were a few cases when an extra plugin was interfering (most of the time is an image optimizer plugin).
Thank you!
Well, it seems to working today as it usually does. But, FYI, “when you upload an image in media this should be updated in full size” isn’t true for featured images – the full/thumb option is not in that screen. Only when you insert an image into the post. In this case, it was showing the size was 1280 width, but the actual featured image was 300 width. I don’t know what broke it or what fixed it. But today it works. If in the future it happens again, I’d like an accurate answer to the question.
