Title: Image Sizes, WordPress
Last modified: October 3, 2017

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# Image Sizes, WordPress

 *  Resolved [SJPUK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjpuk/)
 * (@sjpuk)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-sizes-wordpress/)
 * Hi,
 * I am in the process of customising my WP theme, but I am having an issue with
   the image sizes (widths to be specific).
 * I have made the theme wider, but even when I choose the largest image, there 
   is HTML for the image that forces it to be a maximum width of 970px. I have added
   an image that is 1170, but still, this is the HTML that is generated by the get_content().
 * I am at a loss where all this HTML comes from? A direct copy from the HTML on
   the page is
 *     ```
       <img data-attachment-id="813" data-permalink="https://www.stevenparkes.co.uk/2017/09/29/first-film-lomography-bellair/20170928-420/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.stevenparkes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/20170928-420-e1506970579938.jpg?fit=1170%2C591&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1170,591" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Steven J Parkes&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Bellair&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1506428688&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Steven J Parkes&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Courtyard" data-image-description="<p>Courtyard</p>
       " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.stevenparkes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/20170928-420-e1506970579938.jpg?fit=300%2C152&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.stevenparkes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/20170928-420-e1506970579938.jpg?fit=970%2C491&ssl=1" class="wp-image-813 size-full" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.stevenparkes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/20170928-420-e1506970579938.jpg?resize=970%2C490&ssl=1" alt="Courtyard" width="970" height="490">
       ```
   
 * If I view the section of code in the developer part of chrome, and I remove all
   references to 970, then the image does re-size to 1170, but obviously on re-load
   it’s back to 970. Where is all this HTML coming from?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fimage-sizes-wordpress%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [webtegrity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webtegrity/)
 * (@webtegrity)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-sizes-wordpress/#post-9549856)
 * Looks like there’s code being added onto each image. Look at the path here for
   the image [https://i0.wp.com/www.stevenparkes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/20170928-420-e1506970579938.jpg?resize=970%2C490&ssl=1](https://i0.wp.com/www.stevenparkes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/20170928-420-e1506970579938.jpg?resize=970%2C490&ssl=1)
 * Can you switch themes for a moment to see if that persists? If it does then it
   may be a plugin issue. If it fixes – then at least we would know that it’s a 
   theme command forcing it to resize.
 *  [webtegrity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webtegrity/)
 * (@webtegrity)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-sizes-wordpress/#post-9549857)
 * Beautiful images 🙂 by the way
 *  Thread Starter [SJPUK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjpuk/)
 * (@sjpuk)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-sizes-wordpress/#post-9550006)
 * Hi,
 * Thanks for the quick reply!
 * Right, I just activated Twenty Sixteen, for a moment, just to get the img src,
   and i got this … which probably isn’t a right lot different, other than the width
   is 840px, which is probably the width being defined by the Twenty Sixteen theme
   somehow? When I have tinkered with themes in the past, I have never seen anything
   like this …
 *     ```
       <img data-attachment-id="813" data-permalink="https://www.stevenparkes.co.uk/2017/09/29/first-film-lomography-bellair/20170928-420/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.stevenparkes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/20170928-420-e1506970579938.jpg?fit=1170%2C591&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1170,591" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Steven J Parkes&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Bellair&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1506428688&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Steven J Parkes&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Courtyard" data-image-description="<p>Courtyard</p>
       " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.stevenparkes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/20170928-420-e1506970579938.jpg?fit=300%2C152&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.stevenparkes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/20170928-420-e1506970579938.jpg?fit=840%2C425&ssl=1" class="wp-image-813 size-full below-entry-meta" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.stevenparkes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/20170928-420-e1506970579938.jpg?resize=840%2C424&ssl=1" alt="Courtyard" width="600" height="303">
       ```
   
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by [SJPUK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjpuk/).
      Reason: incorrect html
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by [SJPUK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjpuk/).
      Reason: incorrect html
 *  Thread Starter [SJPUK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjpuk/)
 * (@sjpuk)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-sizes-wordpress/#post-9550036)
 * Aha!
 * I found that there is a variable $content_width that can be set. I have never
   used this in themes before, clearly I have been doing things the hard way. So
   I looked through the themes ‘functions.php’ and found the following …
 * if ( ! isset( $content_width ) ) {
    $content_width = 1170; /* pixels */ }
 * I have now set $content_width to the desired size, and all seems to be ok :o)
 * Thank you for the reply, and it helped me understand that the width was being
   drawn from a setting that could not be set in the normal control panel for WP.
 * Thanks!

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