Hi –
Do you have a place for feature suggestions?
This one is quite important…
I totally love my newspaper 6 theme,
and it’s working fine for me.
ONE FEATURE SUGGESTION
Perfect sharing image size for a link-share to Facebook
is 1200×630 (or 600×315)
That is 1.91:1 aspect ratio
None of your blocks, grids, thumbnails, etc are this exact size!
It would be really great if you made a Big Grid,
and a module or block or two that displayed the featured image
in the 1.91:1 aspect ratio size.
Many of us optimize our featured images
for sharing on facebook via link share.
Thanks for the fine theme… best I’ve ever used in over 10 years blogging
==>Jim Van Wuck
Generally “best” to fit your images to the layout and then allow FB to bring in and optimize and reformat to fit their ever-changing systems for both desktop and mobile; e.g., 470×246 is the size FB most often actually uses for timeline on desktop; with 140×100 for smaller thumbs and 158×158 for square images taken from smaller items.
This only refers to sharing “articles” or posts with featured images, and not “sharing” photo gallery items as single posts themselves.
For our article sites we standardized on 640xXX and for our daily news sites we just to 500×375 and those sizes both work awesomely with Pinterest pins, Twitter cards, and Facebook.
Just some food for thought, not trying to step on your suggestion on any way/shape/form. 🙂
Thanks Chris.. I’ll take this as a cheerful and friendly “no” …
Oh… I’ve been doing this a loooong time, have millions of FB fans on several pages, etc…
other sites with hundreds of thousands of page views monthly…etc….
and Facebook hasn’t changed the optimal size and aspect ratio of a “link share” image
in several years.
Anyways… I love the theme for my new site,
and will work to shoe-horn my 1.91:1 featured images
into the splendid theme…
Thanks for the good and explicit answer…
==>Jim
My thoughts are only my own, I don’t work here nor speak for TagDiv, just — as you likely know — been using WP for 10 years, and TagDiv stuff since 2013, and webdev since March 1995; graphic design since (ahem) the 70s.
My thoughts on this stuff are usually just based on what I deal with on our own news portals, and may not apply to your use case at all.
I think they do have a github page where you can make suggestions and report bugs, but I honestly forget where that is for the direct link.
(In other words anything I say here is not a yes/no/maybe for theme … just commenting for the average joe/jane who might not understand what YOU are asking for and freak out they need to change all their photos. 🙂 )
