I’m going to post an image in a blog post, first uploading the image to my server, and using its url.
If the image is bigger than the maximum width of my blog-post, will it take longer to download, or will WordPress squish the image for the space it has to fit?
If I need to make the image the right size to fit, what size? My blog is at http://wordfruit.com/blog
Thanks,
You should use the built-in WordPress media manager to attach/insert images in posts. That way, if you define
$content_widthappropriately, WordPress will auto-resizelargesized images to fit accordingly.Otherwise, you’ll have to rely on using CSS to set the
max-widthproperty for images within your content container (e.g.#content img{ max-width: 500px; height: auto; }Outside of these two methods, WordPress will not resize your image. If you insert an image in a post, and that image is wider than your content width, the image will overflow your content area.