Posting images to wordpress

When posting images do you resize them before uploading or is there a way resize in Wordpress ? It's kind of a pain to do it before uploading the pic.

I know you can "resize" in the visuual rich editor by dragging the handles but that only changes the height and width tags, it's not a true resize.

My inline images need to be less than 400 pixels to not blow up the template.

 

If you have GD enabled on your server, you can edit one of the wordpress files to resize them to a max of 400px. Otherwise i would definitely resize them before you upload them.

 

I found a way to resize when uploading. I had to modify inline-uploading.php
It works great and really speeds up posting.

I found it here:
http://www.silverjuke.net/forum/topic-635.html

It goes something like this:


#
#-----[ OPEN ]------------------------------------------
#
wp-admin/inline-uploading.php

#
#-----[ FIND ]------------------------------------------
#
$imagedata['height'] = $imagesize['1'];

#
#-----[ AFTER, ADD ]------------------------------------------
#
//+MOD: Resize large images after upload
$max_width = 400;
$max_height = 400;
if( $imagedata['width'] > $max_width || $imagedata['height'] > $max_height )
{
$temp = wp_create_thumbnail($file, $imagedata['width'] > $max_width? $max_width : $max_height);
if ( @file_exists($temp) ) {
unlink($file);
rename($temp, $file);
$imagesize = getimagesize($file);
$imagedata['width'] = $imagesize['0'];
$imagedata['height'] = $imagesize['1'];
}
}
//-MOD: Resize large images after upload

#

 

Do you host your blog or on wordpress.com?

 

Ain't the uploaded image is resize to thumbnail size by default.

 

Use the upload file option to add images and you can then create thumbnails etc.