Why are post preview images blurry and enlarged on WordPress?
Post preview images become significantly enlarged and blurry due to a recent update issue. This breaks the layout across pages, forcing administrators to manually troubleshoot rendering glitches they didn't have before.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Play with browser magnification
- 2reordering items on the pages
- 3deleting and re-uploading photos
- 4checking the site on different browsers
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Anyone else seen this/have a solution?”source ↗
“I've managed a non-profit website on Wordpress for several years but have suddenly encountered a new problem.”source ↗
“On each of the pages, where the previews of the posts are located, the preview has significantly enlarged (and thus slightly blurry) versions of the last (bottom) one, two, or three images, depending on the page.”source ↗
Where this came up
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