I have been reading this morning about images uploaded via the Media Library in WordPress and I thought I had understood most of it. But there's something I'm confused about.
My understanding is that there are a range of default image sizes -
large - which are generated when you upload an image. The maximum dimensions are set in your Media / Settings page in the admin panel.
My "Large" sizes are set to the default 1024px wide and 1024px high.
I have an image which I uploaded that was well over this size. What I'm confused about is when I insert the image into a post and select the large image size - it gives 640px as the width of the image.
The HTML image tag generated on the post is this:
<img class="alignnone wp-image-1718 size-large" src="http://www.mysiteurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/DSC_7543-1024x767.jpg" alt="DSC_7543" width="640" height="479" />
You can clearly see the image is actually 1024px by 767px from the filename -
DSC_7543-1024x767.jpg - so why is it being scaled to 640px by 479px by the tags?
Thanks very much for any help!