Photos fail to resize and Photo Merge broken in Elements

I like to reduce my photos to a smaller size to post on Word Press, because otherwise the pages take too long to load. I used to have issue with elements 6, but I upgraded to the latest version. The problem is happening again. The photo will appear resized, but if I look at the properties of the file, the photo still the same size and before, and it take several attempts to make the actually photo size shrink. I am not talking about reducing the amount of megabytes, but making the photo itself become smaller in physical size. Is this a known bug? If I have a regular size photo, and I want to post in Word Press, I like to shrink it to 30 or 40 percent of the original size so as to keep it the same, but just have it appear smaller. Bigger photos also show too big in Word Press, and the resize in word press, does not work very well. It may also fail causing a big huge picture to take up half the page and look unprofessional. Word Press will charge you more if you upload too many photo that are large in file size and you will run out of room.  Also the so called photo merger only places one photo on top of the other one and fails to create them side by side. Maybe I would like to have two images next to each other? I tired the photo merger, and then I created a blank canvas and dragged the files on the canvas, but they are stuck on top of reach other. They will not move to be size by size. They need to create an image place holder to make the photos move and stay on the canvas. I click on the "hand tool" to move the photos, but they will not budge. The only way to do this is to create a microsoft word document and insert my photos into it. They appear side by side, then I have to screen capture them into a new image. The image is not great quality, but its a better fix then not being able to do it at all.