I have read many topics in the forum on thumbnails , seen what sizes the blocks are supposed to have and still have trouble in getting consistent images across the site. Thumbnails are either different in size from one another or cut the original image – so I get faces of people with head cut off or similar. Would appreciate if anyone could provide an advice how to deal with that. Adore the clean look of the demo and feel quite silly for reading so much and not being able to simulate it myself.
My site is http://www.theskykid.com. With our editor we decided to have just one featured article from each category and I would be so happy if I get them to display consistently .
Thank you in advance ,
Georgi
Wellll…… you can supposedly specify which area to crop from in the new media editor in WordPress if they enabled that, and we used to use a plugin for that, which I am going to plead stupid on at the moment.
I think it was this one!
https://wordpress.org/plugins/manual-image-crop/
This seems very popular
https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-thumbnail-editor/
for example, have not tested this one
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/my-eyes-are-up-here
For consistent thumbnails, based on files you upload, remember that WP will reduce images to fit those specified by the theme and the three sizes in the media settings, but will NOT enlarge them. You need to use the thumbnail upscale plugin which we use here in addition to the auto post thumbnail pro plugin (paid).
Not sure if that helps.
Hi,
Thanks Christopher!
@skykid
WordPress has some default cropping sizes http://screencast.com/t/ifk8fE1HYk and we added more sizes inside the functions.php file – http://screencast.com/t/2QaaubXnqxL
Those sizes are used on modules and sliders (including the Big Slider), you can read here about the thumbs used on modules and sliders https://forum.tagdiv.com/modules-and-blocks/
You can read here more about WordPress hard and soft cropping: http://www.davidtan.org/wordpress-hard-crop-vs-soft-crop-difference-comparison-example/
You could try to registers a new image size, you can read hare more about this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_image_size
Hope this helps!
Thanks
