{"id":5403,"date":"2019-11-17T15:55:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T20:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/?p=5403"},"modified":"2019-11-20T14:58:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T19:58:07","slug":"wordpress-5-3-and-large-image-uploads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2019\/11\/17\/wordpress-5-3-and-large-image-uploads\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 5.3 and Large Image Uploads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5406\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/WordPress-logotype-alternative-300x162.png\" alt=\"WordPress Logo Image\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/WordPress-logotype-alternative-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/WordPress-logotype-alternative-768x415.png 768w, https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/WordPress-logotype-alternative-1024x553.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/WordPress-logotype-alternative.png 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>WordPress version 5.3 released last week. In this release, there are changes in the way WordPress handles very large image uploads. Previous to 5.3, the software would allow you or your users to upload images of any size into the media library.<\/p>\n<p>This in and of itself is not a problem, but many sites and themes did not have automatic image and\/or thumbnail image sizing setup. These sites often just embed that full size image into a page, template or post and scale it down with CSS or hard-code it in the image tag. In version 5.3, WordPress will size down images over 2560 pixels high and wide down to a max of 2560 pixels (in either direction.) That means your 4000 pixel wide image would be sized down to 2560 pixels wide and scaled horizontally proportionally.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a snipped from the <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2019\/10\/09\/introducing-handling-of-big-images-in-wordpress-5-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">WordPress.org blog<\/a> talking about the change:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When a new image is uploaded, WordPress will detect if it is a \u201cbig\u201d image by checking if its height or its width is above a\u00a0<code>big_image threshold<\/code>. The default threshold value is 2560px, filterable with the new\u00a0<code>big_image_size_threshold<\/code>\u00a0filter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s important to note is that the original uploaded image is not discarded. It will still be stored in the system, and you can access it using the <code>original_image<\/code> meta value. It can also be accessed by calling\u00a0 this new function: <code>wp_get_original_image_path()<\/code>. This is important to remember if you have limited storage available.<\/p>\n<p>For most users, they won&#8217;t notice this change. It will help file size\u00a0 and improve download speeds. However, there are use cases where you need to be able to get at the big image. Yes, you have those new functions, but that will mean having to back into your theme or plugin.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, you can disable the resizing by adding this filter to your functions.php file:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: php; light: true; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">add_filter( 'big_image_size_threshold', '__return_false' );<\/pre>\n<p>Even with this change in image handling,\u00a0 you should be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2018\/04\/05\/optimization-wordpress\/\">optimizing your images<\/a> regardless. This new change will not affect existing optimization setups<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress version 5.3 released last week. 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