Changing the size of the image in the homepage text widget

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  isladesign · Member · Jul 25, 2015 at 12:13 pm

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  Hi

  I’m trying to change the size of the image that’s featured in the right hand text widget on the bottom of my home page. I’ve changed the size of the featured image in the post the widget links to, but it doesn’t seem to pull through to what’s displayed on the home page. I’m sure it’s a simple thing but can’t find out how to change it. Any help appreciated!

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jul 27, 2015 at 4:10 pm

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  Hi there, you’ll need to crop the height of your last image in an image-editing program and re-upload it, since it’s a bit taller than the first two images, in proportion to its width. You’ll need to make the third image’s aspect ratio the same as the first two before re-uploading.

  Let me know how it goes.

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  osvinws · Member · Jul 28, 2015 at 12:48 pm

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  Hi,
  Follow the instructions to easily add an image to a text widget in your sidebar.

  1) Create your image
  2) Go to any post or page and open it up. Area you will see “upload/insert” at the top of the content and a little gray box next to it. Click on that box and upload your picture.
  3) Scroll down to “link url” then click “file url”and copy that url.
  4) Close the post and go to “appearances” and then “widgets.”
  5) Drag the text widget from the left side to the sidebar area.
  6) Enter the following code

  To insert a picture only with no hyperlink add the following code:
  <img src=”add your image file url here.”/>

  To insert a picture that goes to another link when it is clicked on hyperlink write the following code:
  <img src=”add your image file url here.”/>

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jul 28, 2015 at 1:44 pm

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  osvinws – thanks for those steps. :) If you take a look at isladesign’s site, you’ll see that they already know how to add an image to a text widget. The issue is that the size of the image is taller in one text widget than the other two.

  isladesign – just let me know if you’re able to crop the taller image in a graphics program or if you need further help.

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  isladesign · Member · Aug 1, 2015 at 9:46 pm

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  Thank you, both. I’d changed the size of the image and couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t pulling through. I thought it was the featured image on the post, and hadn’t checked the widget code to see the reference to the image (it had nothing to do with the featured image!). Thanks for your help.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Aug 3, 2015 at 3:18 pm

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  Glad you got it sorted out!