WordPress 3.9 Lost Functionality, Image Borders, and Margins

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With “Advanced Image Styles” plug-in, borders and margins can again, be easily set.

I just updated to WordPress 3.9 and with my first post, was disappointed. When an image is placed in a post, the text is smashed right up to the image.  In older versions, a margin of space could be put around the image, along with a border if wanted.  This needed functionality is now lost with WordPress 3.9.

Thankfully one of the developers created a plug-in called “Advanced Image Styles”.  This returns some of the functionality lost with this version of WordPress.  In older versions, there were more options to scale images that are gone now also.  It is kind of interesting that one of their own developers wrote this plug-in, to try to compensate what they took out.

For now at lease, install the “Advanced Image Styles” plug-in to get some of the functions back.  Maybe if enough people scream, they will put it back in.

**EDIT** It seems that when a caption is added to the image, as the one above, the caption width is not adjusted to compensate for the width of the image plus the margin widths.  I manually adjusted the code to make it look right.  I left a comment on the plug-in’s development page about it.

**Another EDIT** The plug-in author responded to my comment on the plug-in’s development page and pointed out that the caption width didn’t work in the previous version of WordPress either.  I all fairness, I realize that I should not suggest this is something he should fix in his plug-in.  As Gregory pointed out,

Ideally, this flexibility would be added to core.

-John. K7JM

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