I like the look of Template 8 with the background picture.
But it’s far from ideal that it uses the featured (thumbnail) picture as the background picture.
As that picture need to be very large for the background it is not a good choice for a thumbnail picture to display in one of the blocks on the front page.
Many of those large pictures takes up space and cause some speed issues on my site.
Is there a solution to this? To use a much smaller image as the featured image – and still keep the layout of Template 8?
Best wishes
Lars
Hi,
So you are referring to the post template 8. The background will use the full original image, the one you set as featured image. Not a thumbnail.
The original image set as featured can be as large as you want. It’s full size will not be used in many places, there are thumbnails created for that. But as background the full size will be used.
If you use a small featured image, it will be stretched to cover the background. The result will probably be of low quality.
The demo post uses an image of this size as featured image
– https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/td-post-2015-awards-all-of-the-best-and-worst-moments-from-the-show/
– https://www.screencast.com/t/7NvAtOG6lm
Thanks
Ok. Maybe you misunderstood my question.
If i.e. this post (https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/td-post-2015-awards-all-of-the-best-and-worst-moments-from-the-show/) is linked to from a block on the front page – then the picture that will be loaded on the fornt page is huge (1920 x 1269) while only a small image 360 x 220 is necessary.
This causes issue with speed and performance.
So how can we load a smaller image in the block-display on the front page – and still keep the larger image as the background in the post template itself?
Best wishes
Lars
Here you can see the issue illustrated on GTMatrix: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f7jh7a4crli0zgk/issue-with-featured-images-newspaper-theme.jpg?dl=0
So that is detected in pages where the thumbnail of the featured image should appear?
It is true that the post is linked to the thumbnail that represents it in blocks. In blocks only thumbnails are displayed
– https://www.screencast.com/t/nf3gwk9DwNId
That is not the full image resized, it is an actual thumbnail of the image created by the theme automatically. Inspect an image in a block on your website, they should be thumbnails.
If they are not, then please regenerate the thumbnails
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/thumbnails-fix-strange-looking-images-on-blocks/
The full image will not be displayed in block modules.
