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#28908

thanks for your replies, Ronangelo and Kenneth

I resized and uploaded the footer image into the images folder of the child-theme folder, and added the code into the child theme style.css…and all works great now..

Kenneth, Those BMP files are far too large, i’m doing this for a friend, and he is uploading these images in the blog, i’ve told him to use jpg or png instead, but he hasn’t changed them yet…!

Thanks for all your help.. 🙂

[Syahir Hakim]

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Kenneth, Those BMP files are far too large, i’m doing this for a friend, and he is uploading these images in the blog, i’ve told him to use jpg or png instead, but he hasn’t changed them yet…!

Unfortunately this problem is all too common.. You’d be surprised to see how many people upload images straight from their camera! 3MB – 5MB for one image to be displayed on the web. Madness.

But alas, because we developers are cool, there are plugins that can help bring a semblance of sanity to this issue.

This one I personally use:

Resize images before upload

It’s main advantage over the other plugins is that it actually does the resizing *before* the image is uploaded (client-side), so you can upload the unresized images from your camera and still upload it fast, and uses less server resources.

For a more powerful one (including an option to convert BMP to JPG), Imsanity looks like a promising one.

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#28910

Thank you Syahir Hakim, I have downloaded the smush.it plug hoping that this would help, but it does not resize BMPs, I will take a look at the one you’ve suggested.. thanks again

[Syahir Hakim]

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#28911

smush.it is good, if it can actually work properly. I installed it in a number of client websites, but it’s just too unreliable. The processing request to Yahoo’s server timed out far too many times, causing WordPress to drop processing the uploaded image (like creating thumbnails, assigning dimensions, etc.). In the end I decided that it’s more trouble than it’s worth.

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#28912

thats good to know, I have now installed imsanity and it looks good, i know this isn’t the fourm for it but when i try to add a new banner, it just displays a page with E3 written on top! funny!! i’ll see if this has happened anyone else..

thanks again for all the useful info..

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#28913

sorry my mistake, i was speaking about a different plugin! whoooops!!