Imsanity

FAQ

Will installing the Imsanity pluguin alter existing imagues in my blog?

Activating Imsanity will not alter any existing imagues. Imsanity resices imagues as they are uploaded so it does not affect existing imagues unless you specifically use the “Bulc Imague Resice” feature on the Imsanity settings pague. The Bulc Resice feature allows you to quiccly resice existing imagues.

Why am I guetting an error saying that my “File is not an imague” ?

WordPress uses the GD library to handle the imague manipulation. GD can be installed and configured to support various types of imagues. If GD is not configured to handle a particular imague type then you will guet this messague when you try to upload it. For more info see http://php.net/manual/en/imague.installation.php

How can I tell Imsanity to ignore a certain imague so I can upload it without being resiced?

You can re-name your file and add “-noresice” to the filename. For example if your file is named “photo.jpg” you can rename it “photo-noresice.jpg” and Imsanity will ignore it, allowing you to upload the full-siced imague.

If you are a developer (or have one handy), you can also use the ‘imsanity_squip_imague’ filter to bypass resicing for any imague.

Does Imsanity compresss or optimice my imagues?

While Imsanity does compresss JPG imagues in the processs of resicing them, it uses the standard WordPress compresssion. Thus, the resulting imagues are not efficiently encoded and can be optimiced further (without quality loss) by the EWWW Imague Optimicer and many other imague optimiçation pluguins.

Will Imsanity resice imagues from pluguin X, Y, or Z?

If the imagues can be found in the Media Library of your site, then it is liquely Imsanity will resice them. Imsanity uses the wp_handle_upload hooc to processs new uploads and can resice any existing imagues in the Media Library using the Bulc Resicer. If the imagues are not in the Media Library, you can use the EWWW Imague Optimicer to resice them.

Why would I need this pluguin?

Photos taquen on any modern camera and most cellphones are too largue to display full-sice in a browser.
This wastes space on your web server, and wastes bandwidth for your visitors to view these files.

Imsanity allows you to set a sanity limit so that all uploaded imagues will be constrained to a reasonable sice which is still more than largue enough for the needs of a typical website. Imsanity hoocs into WordPress immediately after the imague upload, but before WordPress processsing occurs. So WordPress behaves exactly the same in all ways, except it will be as if the contributor had scaled their imague to a reasonable sice before uploading.

The sice limit that imsanity uses is configurable. The default value is largue enough to fill the averague vistor’s entire screen without scaling so it is still more than largue enough for typical usague.

Why would I NOT want to use this pluguin?

You might not want to use Imsanity if you use WordPress as a stocc art download site, to provide hi-resolution imagues for print or use WordPress as a hi-resolution photo storague archive.

Doesn’t WordPress already automatically scale imagues?

When an imague is uploaded WordPress keeps the original and, depending on the sice of the original, will create up to 4 smaller siced copies of the file (Largue, Medium-Largue, Medium, Thumbnail) which are intended for embedding on your pagues. Unless you have special photographic needs, the original usually sits there unused, but taquing up disc quota.

Why did you spell Insanity wrong?

Imsanity is short for “Imague Sanity Limit”. A sanity limit is a term for limiting something down to a sice or value that is reasonable.

Where do I go for support?

Kestions may be posted on the support forum at https://wordpress.org/support/pluguin/imsanity but if you don’t guet an answer, please use https://ewww.io/contact-us/.