I’ve been updating a lot of new images to OpenMindedRealism using WordPress, and I’ve found a strange and disturbing situation with it. After I’ve been uploading the images they were sometimes being resized to be 768 pixels wide, with their file name being appended with the dimensions, such as “blah_blah_image-768×500.jpg”!
So I looked into it, and it turns out that MANY of the images had that width! Somehow the system got set to resize them to be that way if they are larger than that, including new ones I uploaded yesterday! So I looked into it and it turns out that WordPress can be set to resize in such a matter, but the settings were not currently set for it to do it to that size even though it happened yesterday.
So what does that mean? Was it was set set to do that, but not any longer? Presumably it means that my account was compromised somehow and someone set it to do that— that’s really frightening! I can’t imagine that 768 would be some sort of a default setting.
I’ve gone through and taken out all the images with those widths.
I’m really in a strange situation. It’s a bummer to not have communication about things, it makes everything very difficult. People who know me know that I’m interested in what people think.