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Yesterday I tried out the Masonry Gallery for the first time. I uploaded some of my images which are all set to 1500px wide and below 500kb in size. When I checked the gallery I saw that the images were shown correctly with their native resolution and file size when clicking on them. I saved them with right click and checked the file size. They were exactly the size I uploaded them. Unfortunately the thumbnail previews in the masonry gallery all looked like they had very low resolution. So I did some research and found out that I can change the value with a plugin called “simple image size”. I installed it and changed the value for the masonry setting from 705px to a higher value. Then I generated the thumbnails new. First it looked like everything worked fine but when I looked at the image files which you see when clicking on a thumbnail I saw that now all images were resized by WordPress to a lower resolution but with larger file size. Now all the images are 1024px and around 700kb in size. I deactivated the plugin and checked if the images went back to their native resolution. But this wasn’t the case. I then deleted the plugin and reuploaded all images again. When I check the images in the media library they all show their native resolution of 1500px and less than 500kb size. Then I created a new masonry gallery and put the newly uploaded images in there hoping they would show up in their original size again. But still the images were somehow resized by WordPress. I don’t understand why?
At the very first time I used the masonry gallery I could use them in their native resolution. And now they are always resized but I don’t know why.
Also if I change the value for “large image” to 1500px, WordPress doesn’t leave the files at their native size. It takes the 1500px original file and resizes it to a 1500px file which is over 1 Megabyte in file size. This makes no sense at all. Why does it still change an image if the aspect ratio is already correct?
I want to use my 1500px files which are less than 500kb each and don’t want WordPress to resize them everytime to a larger file size.
Please tell me what setting I am missing.Best regards
I found one solution which I hope works. I set the values for “large image” to width= 0px and height= 0px. With this setting wordpress uses the original size of the image which have been uploaded. I found this information through google search on another website.
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