One quick post about the new maximum image size settings in Wordpress 2.5. There’s a bug with it, basically rendering the setting useless. Supposedly you are able to change the dimensions for the maximum size that an image can be shown in a post. The setting can be found in Settings—>MIscellaneous under your admin panel. By default it’s set to 300 x300 pixels, which is awfully small for any photographer. If you try to change it to a size larger than 500 pixels wide, it won’t let you. Even if you delete the numbers, hoping to force Wordpress to allow you to post ANY size image in a post, it will still default to 500 pixels.

I found out where to override the default, so the newest installs I’ve been doing won’t have to deal with that setting. I’ve set it to 900 pixels to allow for posting on the wider format themes.

If I’ve installed 2.5 for you and you’ve been having trouble with the maximum image size, please contact me to get that fixed for free. It’s a simple 1 minute fix, so it’s no trouble for me (I just need to find that one minute to do it LOL).

If you’d like to attempt to fix it yourself, here’s the documentation: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164667#post-721341

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