Everything You Need to Know About WordPress Image Sizes

Understanding WordPress image sizes may seem straightforward, but without the right knowledge under your belt, you could miss out on visitors and content sharing opportunities 📈 👉Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/Kinsta?sub_confirmation=1 WordPress image sizes are more complex than you might expect. It’s essential to understand how image sizes work in WordPress, what the default image sizes are, and how to define custom image sizes to manage your website effectively. Having this knowledge under your belt will ensure you have the appropriate type of images in suitable sizes at the right locations so that you can get the most out of your visual content strategy. These tactics will also improve the share-worthiness of your posts, which will translate into more visibility and traffic. Statistics reveal that readers only remember 10% of the text content they read after three days, but this number shoots up to 65% if you add visually appealing images to your content. In this in-depth video, you’ll learn everything you need to know about WordPress image sizes. _________________________ 🕘Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:47 How WordPress Manages the Images You Upload 1:43 Where and How WordPress Stores Your Images? 2:39 What are the Default WordPress Image Sizes? 3:23 How to Change Default Image Sizes (and When You’d Need To) 5:31 How to Add Custom Image Sizes to WordPress 9:54 Adding a Custom Image Size to Your Theme 10:53 Updating Old Thumbnails 12:19 Using the WordPress Built-In Image Size Editor 13:19 Editing Images in WordPress Gutenberg 14:01 Optimizing Your Images _________________________ 📚Resources 📙 Everything You Need to Know About WordPress Image Sizes ► https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-image-sizes/ 🧑🏻‍💻 Adding Custom Image Sizes Manually ► https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-image-sizes/#adding-custom-image-sizes-manually 🎑 Adding a Custom Image Size to Your Theme ► https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-image-sizes/#adding-a-custom-image-size-to-your-theme ℹ️ About Kinsta Kinsta provides Managed WordPress Hosting for projects of all sizes, serving over 120,000+ businesses worldwide. Officially recommended by Google Cloud, Kinsta leverages Google's Premium Tier network and the fastest C2 and C3D machines to guarantee lightning-fast load times. Kinsta provides enterprise-level security, a free global edge CDN with 260+ PoPs, and 24/7/365 support. Try Kinsta's Managed WordPress hosting for free, with your first month on us! 🚀 Don’t let unnecessarily complicated and underperforming hosts delay your projects. Explore our plans to find the perfect fit to run your WordPress sites ► https://kinsta.com/pricing/ 💡Learn more about Kinsta’s hosting solutions 👉Managed WordPress Hosting: https://kinsta.com/wordpress-hosting/ 👤Follow us: ► https://kinsta.com/blog/ ► https://kinsta.com/newsletter/ ► https://twitter.com/kinsta ► https://instagram.com/kinstahosting ► https://facebook.com/kinstahosting #WordPresImageSizes