When an image is uploaded to a WordPress site, the system automatically creates multiple image sizes, but keeps the original image (no matter how big it is). Smart bloggers upload optimized, resized and lightweight images but atleast once in a lifetime all make mistake of uploading very large image files.

When large image files are hosted and used on a website, you get massive image embeds inside your content, which can drastically slow down your website.

In this lesson you will learn about correcting this mistake by bulk resizing all images on your website. There are two good plugin you can use in your WordPress installation.

Continue reading Bulk Resize Huge Media Uploads Maintaining Maximum Width For All Images In WordPress →

By default WordPress allows you to customize thumbnail. medium and large image size. In this lesson you will learn about enabling all other image size selection options on media size dropdown, which you use while inserting images inside content with ADD MEDIA button.

Continue reading Add All Available Image Size Options To WordPress Media Size Selection Drop Down →

Now you can easily find images inside your post content and change their format size. Great tool when switching to a new WordPress theme or changing the layout of your website.

When an image is uploaded to WordPress, it generates several versions of that image in different sizes. The image is then inserted in content using ADD MEDIA button in visual editor and a custom image size format is selected.

But when you switch to new theme with different content area size, your old post images starts to look odd. Sometimes they overflow to sidebars or to other elements etc.

This happens because the images you insert in your content becomes the part of your content, they are hardcoded in posts and remains the same even when you switch to a new layout.

Hence, in result your images do not fit perfectly with the new design.

Continue reading Change Old Image Format Size In WordPress Posts And Custom Post Types →

Earlier we have discussed about deleting large image files after their thumbnails are generated in your WordPress site. Now today in this lesson you will learn about deleting original image files uploaded and keep only their custom size file used inside your post content.

You can set this to be done automatically on upload or do it in bulk for all images in your WordPress site.

The logic is , generally bloggers upload the original image files which is sometimes huge and hence their optimized version is used in content where as the original image file is never published. Hence, there is no need to keep it on your server.  Continue reading Auto Delete Original Image Files To Lighten Your WordPress Site Load →

By default WordPress organizes your media files in ‘uploads’ folder located in wp-content directory of your website. WordPress provides you option to organize all uploads in month and year based folders but in this lesson you will learn how to organize them in file types or username based folders.  Continue reading Easily Organize File Uploads By File Types (mov, gif, png, mp3…) Or Usernames In WordPress →

Sometimes media library only show images and not thumbnails, in this lesson you will learn how to fix this by scanning WordPress media library and regenerating all missing thumbnails.  Continue reading Easily Regenerate Missing Media Library Thumbnails In WordPress →

Attaching, unattaching and reattaching media data to different WordPress posts is easy. With new Re-attacher plugin you can reattach uploaded media files to posts in your WordPress site.

Other than this, the plugin also allows you to completely detach files from posts. It also enables you to manage both single and groups of media files.

It also turns Gallery and Portfolio plugins more convenient to use because after installing Re-attacher plugin you won’t have to upload new images each time you need using them on gallery or portfolio pages. Instead, it lets you to use uploaded files.   Continue reading Easily Attach, Unattach or Reattach Media Files And Data To Different WordPress Posts →

By default, WordPress uses its official logo on login screen pages. Earlier we have discussed about turning off all WordPress branding like login logo, admin bar logo, admin footer text and all other admin branding text, images. We have also discussed about customizing login screen page.

In this lesson you will learn how to make this process more easy by automatically resizing and turning your header image to your WordPress login screen logo.  Continue reading Use Custom Header Image As Your WordPress Login Logo →

You can control the auto-cropping of thumbnails, you control the way how WordPress generates thumbnails in your website.

You must have noticed that when WordPress auto-generates thumbnails, it never crops them in the way which is more suitable for showing the thumbnail.

For instance, suppose you have a full portrait image of a person that you’ve uploaded, but you want the image to appear landscape or may be you have a landscape image, with a person’s face on the right hand side, but you need it to display in a square thumbnail.  Continue reading Enable Face Detection For Better Cropping Of Thumbnails In WordPress →

Pixabay.com is a free community service designed for globally sharing and using public domain images. The service can be used by anyone who needs high quality photos to use in blog, website, articles etc.  Continue reading Integrating Pixabay Free Image Library In WordPress →

Earlier we have discussed about editing photos with native WordPress functionality. We have tested a lot of new plugins and in this article we are listing some of the best ones you can use to retouch your website images.  Continue reading Best WordPress Plugins To Edit And Retouch Images In WordPress →