Stretch Featured Image to Fit Box

For the featured image, can you please create it so we don’t need to manually resize the the featured image (745×483) in the big slide for each post? Is there a stylesheet we can add to stretch the image?

Hey Marius,

Will this be considered in the near future at all?

Thanks,

@sbo, JetPack’s “Photon” is resizing automatically. Just enable Photon.

Fantastic! That is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!

@rea-secret

So the Photon worked perfectly but Jetpack was just slowing down the theme way too much so I had to delete it as you can see here http://screencast.com/t/IcGwk8Yf.

Do you have any other solutions for this http://screencast.com/t/89FY5ny7D
http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/

Maybe Marius, do you have any ideas?

Don’t know if this helps … but one trick I did once upon a time was go into the WP media settings and set the “large thumbnail” size to the desired new size, for this example 745×483 size, then use the regenerate thumbnails plugin to generate those sizes. This gets you past the first hurdle of actually having images set to the correct size from either featured image or the first image in post.

@Christopher, will this generate an extra image when the images are uploaded in the media gallery? Also, when setting the large thumbnail to 745×483 will the new post images that I set to featured need to be regenerated or will it automatically be done?

@Christopher, so I set the Media Settings to have those specific image dimensions as the large. Seems like the largest one ended up being 630×357. I am using this Regenerate Plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

@Christopher, would you happen to know anything about the Photon api such as this http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/api/ – this is what is needed in this theme so that all images fit the dimensions without having to manually resize them or regenerate images @marius