Hello. What is the best size and or aspect ratio to use for Featured Images so that you don’t end up with blank space in the blocks? See here: https://www.evernote.com/l/ADHfmKn6Xb5HcZsBFhiV5qm9QhYn4_TZqlU
Hello,
The best image to use is a full hd image of 1920 x 1080 as the theme creates thumbnails for each case in particular and the full size will not be used on the site except when accessing the image itself.
There is no best or worst aspect ratio as the theme creates thumbs if the image is large enough as there is a cropping system that will get the size it needs for the thumb from your image. The main issue is the size. In order to prevent the spaces for the images, you need to have a featured image larger than the container in the grid. The theme crops images but it does not enlarge them. If your images are bigger than the container, you probably did not regenerate the thumbnails. You can use this guide: https://forum.tagdiv.com/thumbnails-fix-strange-looking-images-on-blocks/
Thank you!
Thanks for the info here, I’ll pass that sizing along.
Regarding regenerating thumbnails – I read the tutorial and went through the process of installing that plugin and regenerating my images. However, I notice that when I add a new image, I still have to manually go in and regenerate that thumbnail for it to fill the blocks correctly on my landing pages? Is there not an option to regenerate thumbs automatically when a new image is added to the site?
Hi,
The theme automatically generates the thumbnail sizes needed, from the featured image for each module – https://forum.tagdiv.com/thumbnails-vs-featured-image-size/
This process is done by default, it is not necessary to regenerate the thumbnails after each added featured image. Unless you make changes to the thumb settings
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/theme-thumbs/ then it is necessary.
Thanks
Ok that makes sense. So just so that I understand, each time I upload an image, the theme creates and stores size versions for each thumbnail toggled on in “Thumbs on Modules/Blocks”? So right now, I have 12 sizes toggled on, does that mean each time I upload an image, the theme creates and stores 12 different versions of that image on the server? That will take up server space very fast right?
Also:
What you can do, and what is commonly done in WordPress news portals, is upload images via FTP into an /images/ folder, and then put the explicit URL for the image in the HTML of the article, and don’t use the media manager except for the featured image.
Note that WP makes images from anything added to the media manager, per the default sizes shown on the settings > media page for *all* themes, defaulting to those most commonly used by the default blog themes included with WP.
So, *all* themes follow this behavior by adding additional add image classes to fit theme layouts, and for this theme they can be disabled based on the theme panel.
The only solution that works across all themes, is to simply use the FTP method for common images, and then use the media manager only for the ‘featured’ image for a story.
Anyway, that’s how we’ve done it the past 12 years on our news portals.
Thanks for that info Edward – we’ll definitely look into that option.
Another question here, we’ve got the “Regenerate Thumbs” plugin installed and setup, however we still get thumbs that are not displaying correctly. See here: https://www.evernote.com/l/ADHmsAAlOz1KJYJXcvZ5OUy5BU9MB5kqNkc
Does “Regenerate Thumbs” not automatically do this? We went through the steps in the suggested tutorial above where we regenerated all thumbs, but it’s still displaying newer images incorrectly since then?
Hi,
Then that probably means that the featured image you sue for those posts, is not big enough in size to allow the theme to create the proper thumbnail sizes.
That Big grid module need this thumbnail size to display properly
– https://www.screencast.com/t/V7xKIQJW
– https://www.screencast.com/t/Z9fbxLMq
If the featured image is small, some thumbnail sizes will not be created by the theme. You could try a thumbnail upscale plugin if you have to use smaller featured images.
Thanks
