Featured Image in Structure Theme
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Thank you @panaghiotisadam. Is this a temporary thing or is it the new standard? If it’s the new standard: do i have to manually tweak every image I’ve posted on my blog in order for them to appear again in the single post view? Or do I wait for an automatic script, patch or something?
So far I’ve made a few tests and it works fine. I’ve found two ways to solve this problem: 1) create the image again with the new size (640 x 392), upload it as the new featured image in the post, delete the old one and update the post, or 2) find the image in the library, update it, scale it, write 640 instead of 620 (a red exclamation sign appears) and save it. Both worked. The first one is huge work considering hundreds of images (plus embedded info). The second one is much faster but compromises quality.
And just out of curiosity, where did you learn about this? And why would someone do something like this if he knows so many people will be affected unwillingly?
Maybe nobody knows this but I’d like to hear your opinion: let’s say I take the time to edit every single image in my blog so they appear again. Maybe next year they impose a new standard size and I loose everything again?
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You’re welcome.
It seems to be the new standard (not a temporary glitch, as I thought when the first complaints started arriving): there’s a staff reply in a couple of related threads that calls the previous situation “a long standing bug” that was finally fixed.
Their rationale is correct, for the reason I explained in my previous reply above: images smaller than what’s right for the theme get blown up so they lose quality. But they should have thought of that when they started launching themes with featured images, not a year later. In my posts on these “special” themes, I recommended from the start that featured images should be in the right dimensions.
Where did I learn about what exactly?
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hello again :) I think Im a little lost with dimensions. How do I resize images to the exact dimension? and if the dimensions are slightly larger does this matter with the feature shot image? my blog still has no front cover image since a week ago :(
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You need to use an image editing application. Or you can use the WP image editor:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/image-editing/No, it doesn’t matter if the images are larger than the recommended dimensions: a larger image (slightly or not again doesn’t matter) will show up. It’s just that some part of it will be cropped (except if its dimensions and the recommended dimensions are in the same aspect ratio). If the image is larger but roughly the same shape, the cropping won’t matter much. Buy you can’t set a portrait-shaped image and expect much of it to show up.
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@ panaghiotisadam, you have been so ever helpful, thank you so much for your time and advise, I will also give image editing a try too and will make sure I just keep on or a tad over the dimension sizing. Much Thanks :-)
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I’m new to wordpress and think this theme looks great.
But i can’t get the images of my posts appear in the grey box on the top. I’ve set the images as featured and edited the dimensions. They do show up above the post but not on the top…
Am I doing something wrong or did I forget to check a box or something??
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