Featured image choice
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Hi, is there a way to change which part of a featured image is chosen (ie snippets of the featured image are often put in places such as the related articles bar rather than the whole image), or in the case of larger featured images, to stop them replacing the standard header image in an article?
Thanks, TheBookBlogger2014The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I found this in JetPack Support (http://jetpack.me/support/related-posts/)
Details on Related Post Thumbnails
A post’s featured image will appear as the thumbnail. If you haven’t set a featured image for the post, the feature will pull the first image in the body of the post.
Thumbnails are resized and cropped automatically using Photon to be 350px wide by 200px tall (1.75:1 ratio) to allow for a consistent visual display. Since this is done automatically, there’s no way to fine-tune where the image is cropped.
So, it looks like if you always make the featured image 350×200 or the 1.75:1 ratio, it will display consistently. That means you have to modify those book images with a graphics program that will allow you to crop them to your specifications rather than using the entire book cover as your featured image. You don’t need anything fancy like Photoshop to do this – there are even some good online image editors like Pixlr.
As far as stopping the featured image from replacing the standard header image, I believe that’s a function of the theme you’re using. This is from the Chateau theme description:
Custom Headers
You can upload your favorite image to the header to put your stamp on your blog. You can even use a different custom header image for each post by including a Featured Image when you publish a new post. -
That’s brilliant, thank you very much for your help, that is just what I was looking for!
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