Nov 28

“Updated” wordpress to match my digital camera

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So, today I "updated" wordpress to match my digital camera. Why did I do this? Well easy! :-) Currently wordpress supports thumbnails for uploaded pictures if the file is <= 3 megapixel in size. Not megabytes or something, megapixel.

I updated the wp-admin/includes/image.php file to be able to upload files (and thumbnail them) if they are bigger then that size. This way I can normally add my digital photos that were created by my Sony Alpha 100 camera.

What did I do?

Edit wp-admin/includes/image.php and search/replace the following line (at the moment of writing this is line 150 with wordpress 2.3.1)

PLAIN TEXT
CODE:
  1. $max = apply_filters( 'wp_thumbnail_creation_size_limit', 3 * 1024 * 1024, $attachment_id, $file );

with the following line:

PLAIN TEXT
CODE:
  1. $max = apply_filters( 'wp_thumbnail_creation_size_limit', <amount of megapixels you want to support here> * 1024 * 1024, $attachment_id, $file );

EDIT: Please take notice that you might run into server errors, because of PHP running out of it's allowed memory size. You can set these values in ``php.ini``.

written by Remko