Hi, Radu and co.
I have one request for change; and will understand if not doable.
On our install, we have “use featured images” turned off since we have existing posts with the old-school method of posting the images into top of the story, and in oooold stories the smaller images are flush right into the post.
For *new* content with this theme, we found that using Style 2 works great, as this was also what we did with the Newspaper theme.
However (and yes, I know this is different theme), in Newspaper, I could choose to use Style 4 and 5 and the post would grab from featured image since it obviously would not pull from image in post. However in my install, this doesn’t work. I simply get solid box with gradient, and no image at all. It works as expected with style 6, but not style 4 or 5.
Any chance of a fix or hack for this as we have some stories where for a movie review or something a “big” giant photo works great, where for a book review with book jacket or author photo it does not.
Anyway, hate to do the “it works on newspaper but not on newsmag” kind of feedback, since NOT THE SAME THEME (!) 🙂 but there you are.
I am sending this as personal note to Radu by email, but also posting here just in case anybody else runs into this topic.
And i did do regen thumbs and am using thumbnail upscale … As you might expect.
I also had a problem with this, but I worked around it by creating different “featured image” types in functions.php using the Multiple Post Thumbnails plugin. I inserted a Big Image function in place of where “featured image” is coded in the appropriate singe_template files.
example: <?php if (class_exists('MultiPostThumbnails')) : MultiPostThumbnails::the_post_thumbnail(get_post_type(), 'big-feature'); endif; ?>
Good workaround. I’d rather not have to add yet another funky plugin; and simply have this work the same way it does in Newspaper and for style 6 here, but not for style 4 and 5. I do have the “make thumbs” settings “on” in the theme panel thumbnail sizes:
1021 X 580 [ on ]
This thumb size is used for:
Post style 4, 5, 8
Point was that with post style 4 and 5 and “use featured image” OFF, the post style 4 and 5 won’t load the large featured image at top of page, with featured image selected from the post page as per usual.
“Expected” behavior is as with post style 6, where it does work, while post style 4 and 5 it does not.
