Thumbnail sizing problems

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Hello,

The thumbnails on my site are displaying at various sizes, but I would like them all to display at the same square size if possible. You can see what it looks like here: http://dev3.beta.dailysundial.com/

Any idea how I can get those to display at the same size so there is a bit more continuity? Thanks!

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Best way to do that easily is only use ONE module/block size on your home page and sidebar.

And also set the three small/medium/large sizes on the wp > settings > media page to not create additional un-needed sizes.

Obviously if you use a block/module with different size, it needs to build and load different size thumbs; but you *can* edit blocks if you want, just not simple.

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Thanks Chris, to be more specific, my problem is that it seems to be shrinking the images so there are horizontal thumbs, vertical thumbs, etc. What I’d like is consistently square thumbs, so changing module/block sizes doesn’t seem like it would fix it?

Thanks!

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Yeah. You would have to manually modify the blocks to use the same sizes in all the blocks, which seems to be a bit of a pain as you’d need to redo that with each theme upgrade.

But if you just used ONE module/block with square thumbs and used only that it might work, but not very exciting. I think with all square images you’d also end up with some blank space in blocks, etc.

Likely doing a mockup image to post here might help the tech support folk get a better idea of what you’re hoping to do and whether it’s possible or not.

Obviously with the wide blocks if you made the wide image square it would either be more narrow, or taller to be square, and with vertical it would break the box layout since it would be too wide, so it would be half as tall to keep same width.

My head hurts on that 😉

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