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Hi sesantanajr,
I have checked your site and some of your images are cropped, but they don’t have width and height, for example – http://screencast.com/t/Cmfz8ZNJUNJ it should look like this – http://screencast.com/t/uPWhut4R
Each featured image is cropped to a specific size, here you can see the thumbs used on modules – http://screencast.com/t/9xmQZoZFrGR and the code is located in td_config.php file – http://screencast.com/t/c7LeWSH7p3VK
You have to use Thumbnail Upscale and Force Regenerate Thumbnails only if you use smaller images than the thumb size on modules/block. If the images are not cropped you will have just to regenerate thumbnails – https://forum.tagdiv.com/using-the-theme-with-existing-content/
Did you modified the code? Please remove your custom modifications or try to so a clean install then check again without any plugins active, leave just Visual Composer active, clear cache and see if you still have this issue after you regenerate the thumbs.
Yesterday when I have checked your site the thumbs were cropped to the specific size. The theme doesn’t use the full size image on modules, I have just provide more details in the documentation how the theme creates the thumbnails and how to change the cropping mode if you want this.
Thanks!
I followed the basic tutorial newspapper. Until I installed the plugin and tutorial follow the tips below, which has the theme of manual own.
Installed Thumbnail Upscale and Force Regenerate Thumbnails and not solved. Below the settings that were made.
https://forum.tagdiv.com/image-size/
http://www.davidtan.org/wordpress-hard-crop-vs-soft-crop-difference-comparison-example/
Hello spacelabs,
The first thing you can do is to save your permalinks so they will be regenerated from settings->permalinks:
http://screencast.com/t/RA6nqhG5CEr2.
Secondly try to disable any other plugins that did not come with the theme to see if one of them is problematic.
If the problem persists, please provide more details so we can closer inspect the issue.
Thank you.
Hi
Usually that gray space appear when the image is smaller than the thumb in which it’s displayed, because WordPress won’t enlarge images, only crops them. To avoid that you can use a portrait image at least by the big grid thumb’s size. Also try to regenerate thumbs: https://forum.tagdiv.com/thumbnails-fix-strange-looking-images-on-blocks/
To add a new big grid you can use theme’s API: https://forum.tagdiv.com/td_api_blockadd/ but this is a complex task and requires good coding skills, as you will need a custom css for its layout and depending by your needs maybe a new module. My advice is to look for a developer from sites like: http://studio.envato.com/ to help you with that, as we cannot offer any type of custom work at the moment.
If this is not what you mean please provide more details and your site’s url so I can inspect this isuee.
Thanks!
Hi
You need to install Thumbnail Regenerate plugin to have that option available, here you can find more details in this regard: https://forum.tagdiv.com/thumbnails-fix-strange-looking-images-on-blocks/
Thanks!
Hi,
Please check your td_config.php file and see if you still have this settings. If they are the same try to regenerate your thumbnails and see if you still have this issue.
Thanks!
Hi
There is no ideal size for the feature images but in order to fit the thumb container it should have at least the sizes of thumb’s container, because WordPress doesn’t enlarges images. If you already use bigger images and still have issues with them, try to clear all caches purge cdn files also deactivate the plugins, leave just Visual Composer active, and make sure you regenerated the thumbs after theme’s update, then test again.
Let me know how it goes and if the problem persist please send an email at contact@tagdiv.com with your sites login details and we will inspect this issue, also include a link to this topic.
Thanks!
Hi
You just needed to regenerate thumbs: https://forum.tagdiv.com/thumbnails-fix-strange-looking-images-on-blocks/
Regarding the VC plugin I noticed that the blocks stop appearing after the raw html: http://screencast.com/t/LBKe1OzNDiU so please check if the code you added it’s correct, because seems to affect the plugin functionality. Also you can check the browser’s console fro errors, or try without plugins, leave just Visual Composer active
Thanks
I have already regenerated the thumbnails
Hello Kozzi,
You can try using a different regenerate thumb plugin like Force regenerate thumbs https://wordpress.org/plugins/force-regenerate-thumbnails/
Also check if you have the right permissions for uploading.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions
Another thing you can do is check if you have GD Library Installed. You can see it in your cpanel. If not, contact your hosting provider.
Thank you.
Hi — I just switched to the Newspaper 6 theme, and installed the regenerate plugin and run the procedure.
But if you look at my page (http://blog.kozzi.com) the theme is not using regenerated thumbs, it’s using the full size images that was uploaded at the ‘Featured Image’ (right click and download the thumb on homepage downloads the full size image)
So I tried a fresh post with a new images and still — same thing.
This is greatly slowing down my front page.
Hi,
1. I’m not sure what you mean – http://screencast.com/t/2yMI0sz5GhB You can provide a link so I can take a look.
2. I have checked this on my side and no blue background appears – http://screencast.com/t/bq58rmhs Do you use speed booster plugin? It may cause an issue like this because it moves the css and js at the bottom of the page structure so that the page will load faster, this is why the theme default color appears first then changes, because of the cascading property of css. A solution is to change the color directly into css stylesheet file.
3. Replace your code with this custom css – http://screencast.com/t/qCFe4hxeU4t
.sf-menu .td-normal-menu li:hover > a {
padding-left: 20px;
background-color: none;
border-left: 2px solid #0072bc;
transition: padding .3s ease-in-out;
border-left: 2px solid #0072bc;
}
4. The submenu doesn’t have a fixed width, it count the length of the items – http://screencast.com/t/gMQ6eFVzos A solution will be to add a min-width, but also you need to change the position – http://screencast.com/t/s81lAXTd
The icon has an absolute position you can also adjust it if you want – http://screencast.com/t/Xtfm2KEXj
5. This is the thumb size used by template 3. Like you can see it is used on more templates and also on smart lists. You can add a new thumb size in td_config.php – http://screencast.com/t/AY145YSX and the use it for template 3 – http://screencast.com/t/eWWuLpdAP Please regenerate your thumbs if you make some changes – https://forum.tagdiv.com/using-the-theme-with-existing-content/
Thanks!
hi guys
I have updated to version 6 and regenerated all my thumbnails.
I have a strange issue I would like to solve…
On my menu bar, if I select any category I can see my grid, followed by a list of posts with thumbs:
http://connecteddigitalworld.com/category/tech-2/
however, if I select the Reviews one, I get the grid but the list of posts doesn’t have any thumbs:
http://connecteddigitalworld.com/category/reviews/
Any ideas how I can fix this?
thanks
Andrew
Hello,
have you tried running force-regenerate-thumbnails plugin?
https://forum.tagdiv.com/thumbnails-fix-strange-looking-images-on-blocks/
This plugin should fix all of your existing thumbs images, but if in the future you upload small images, they will be showing like this. Use images greater than 700×400 or use a plugin like thumbnail upscale.
Cheers!
Hi,
Please provide a link so we can take a look. Also if you use smaller featured image than the size of the thumb you will need to use plugin like Thumbnail Upscale to enlarge thumbnails and Force Regenerate, like Chris suggested.
Thanks!
Hi
you only need to regenerate thumbs when moving to a new them like this one.
Otherwise the theme generates the thumbs automatically as long as you set a FEATURED image per post. It won’t create thumbs just placing an image into a post — WordPress doesn’t do that; it needs a featured image set.
http://www.panorama.com.al/ is my website.
I do not see several images when upload new one.
And final questions, i have to regenerate thumbs all the time?
If I regenerate only last month?
the new ones will be ok?
Unless your server doesn’t have imagemagik running, you should get multiple thumbs when you upload a NEW image or regenerate thumbs. You can also check your error log to see if something is broken.
Are you using a CDN or something — in that case the images are not on your site but on the CDN with some setups.
Link to one of your pages might be useful ?
I use a code in my functions.php file to help me sharpen my images..may be it can work for you, but you will have to Regenerate your old Thumbnails images to see the effect but all new uploads after will take effect right away..
function modify_image_before_saving( $image, $post_id ){
if ( ‘attachment’ == get_post_type( $postid ) )
return $image;//add interlace image option
imageinterlace( $image, true );// sharpen image
imageconvolution( $image, array(-1,-1,-1,-1,16,-1,-1,-1,-1) , 8, 0 );return $image;
}
add_filter( ‘image_save_pre’,’modify_image_before_saving’, 15, 2 );
Hello.
Recently got round to updating my v4 site to v6.4 today. I’m working on a staged copy…
Full disclosure:
Went to maintenance mode and deleted the Theme folder (and the Child).
FTPed the new up and clicked the ‘import script’ which completed and told me to regenerate thumbnails.
(All regeneration failed – but that for another time.)
Updated plugins as requested…
The first thing I have noticed is that the default page layouts and custom fonts for example are all gone! That’s a real pain but not insurmountable, HOWEVER what is a problem is that I have lost the social counts (number of Tweets on posts etc) – I am effectively starting from zero as far as the outside world is concerned… this is very bad.
I suspect there may well be more, but that’s a deal breaker!
Please advise
Thanks
Hi,
I guess that you don’t use all the theme’s blocks or modules. So first please check what you use on your pages and enable thumbs only for what you need/use – http://screencast.com/t/y406KT7uEK then regenerate thumbnails. Also can do this process when the traffic is low on your site(night for example).
Thanks!
Thank you for the expert advice Andrei. Much appreciated. You guys are giving first class support and no wonder why your themes are selling like hot cakes.
Regarding plugins, I am using following Contact Form7, SEO by Yoast, Akismet, WPSmush it, w3 total cache, regenerate plugin, visual composer and tag div speed booster.
I used w3 total cache because it gave me better score.
I am aware Akismet is not supported by speed booster so what I did is i removed the code from speed booster so it won’t get disabled.
So I am not finding anything to disable except I need to start looking for Chris WordPress Pagespeed optimization tricks.
Can we disable Visual Composer when website is UP and running? Or is it always needs to be there even when I am not editing any pages or homepage?
Regards
Siraj
Hi
Regarding the page speed issues please check our guide here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-make-the-site-faster/ – follow this section: http://screencast.com/t/bQMIXc5JuUdd to optimize images and also make sure you regenerate thumbnails: https://forum.tagdiv.com/existing-content/
Check your panel status for the speed booster plugin and make sure it’s active: http://screencast.com/t/a2BBchudPE as it’s set to disable itself if detects an incompatible plugin. I see you use lots of plugins so you should consider that recent versions of the tagdiv speed booster plugin have been designed to disable when it detect incompatible plugins. You can read more in this regard here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/incompatibility-speed-booster/
If you’re not aware of the steps you need to take to improve your page speed score we advise your to hire a freelancer to help you do it because we cannot provide speed customization services at the moment.
The theme uses the WordPress thumbs cropping system and depending on image’s aspect ratio the result could be different, you can find more details here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/image-size/ and more details about cropping here: http://www.davidtan.org/wordpress-hard-crop-vs-soft-crop-difference-comparison-example/
There is not an ideal image size for all thumbs, and a way to find what image will fit best would be to do some tests depending what blocks/modules you use most add an image more nearest with aspect ratio of the thumbs in which you want it to look well. You can read more about aspect ratio here – http://digital-photography-school.com/aspect-ratio-what-it-is-and-why-it-matters/
Theme’s page speed guide provides our demo site .htaccess configuration: http://screencast.com/t/SMP1Jebjx which you can use as a starting point and build on it.
You can also go trough Chris’s recommendation on this regard: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-chriss-custom-optimizations-for-functions-php-etc/
Thanks!
Sounds like you have some caching issues, and/or you need to reset the template used as static home page; double check your htaccess file, resave permalinks, etc.
Theme does not control location of your “home” page, that is usually from a permalink setting.
You need to regenerate thumbnails to fit theme sizes, and ideally use an optimization methodology either via functions.php setting for compression level, or plug like smushit.
Likely fixing the permalink structure, caching, and checking your htaccess file for leftovers from old theme(s), would be first check on not being able to preview.
Remember to disable all plugins from old theme!
Hi Alin, just face the same issue as stated above.. it is a little weird of how this image crop is working.. if i see the demo install of newspaper default.. the image is set as featured with size 1068×712 or 1068×709 and in the demo install it is well sized either on the big grid layout, on the footer thumb block, on the search block.
this is my demo install http://demo.howtoproblem.com/. I refer to the post “Simple form creation and storage, built for developers.” Fyi. I have tried to resize my image manually from photoshop to 1068×712 then i set as featured and i run the regenerate thumbnails but on the search result block the image is not well sized.. if i inspect element it shows that the image is resized to 150x150px ? dohh.. could you give us the best tricks for this issue ? this really time consuming issue..
Thanks in advance. Have a nice day.
