My Theme "Structure" is Screwed Up … Help
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My main picture also suddenly disappeared today. I’ve been trying to follow the instructions here (http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/introduction-to-structure/), but I don’t see “set featured image” anywhere.
Also, iamsavoia — how do you get the pictures to appear with every post on your homepage? Mine seem to only appear if you click into each post.
Thank you.
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@timethief,
I am using Coraline not Pilcrow! Also I have marked this for staff attention as we could at least do with a “we are looking into it” message! -
Okay, I have Structure and was freaking out a bit about it. My featured images would show up for each individual post, but not in the big featured post that appears at the top of the page.
However, I changed the aspect ratio of my photo and it worked. I think the problem may have been that I cropped the original image before making it the featured image and hadn’t been paying attention to aspect ratio previously.
I don’t know what has changed, but up until a few days ago my normal images (which are 800×500 pixel) were automatically resized to be featured images. Sometimes bits got cut off, but sometimes not.
If I have to manually resize every featured image to 620×380, that would really suck. So I hope automatic resizing of standard-sized images continues.
I’m at http://farmhousemagazine.wordpress.com if anyone needs know that.
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@All:
Featured images used to work (sort of) no matter what their dimensions (but we volunteers always recommended uploading header/featured images sized to the exact pixel dimensions the theme specifies).
A couple of days ago, WP decided that this is a “bug”, because images smaller than the proper dimensions get blown up so lose quality, so decided that smaller images should not work. But this is a very new change, so apparently they haven’t sorted everything out yet. At the moment featured images in Structure will show in the homepage top area if they are the right size (620×380 pixels) or larger, but still they won’t show in the single post view (if you have enabled that option).
A note, in case there’s some misunderstanding: Resizing the featured images doesn’t mean using the sizing options of the post editor – these have no effect on featured images. It means creating properly sized versions of the images in an image editing application, and uploading those versions.
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Update on Structure: featured images will show up on the single post as well if their size is 640×392 pixels (or larger).
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@panaghiotisadam – really? Because when I cropped my image in the WP editor to the correct size, it showed up just fine (I had previously cropped it to something that was apparently not the correct size, so I restored the image in the editor and cropped it to the exact 620×380 size). Of course, I was editing it down from a larger file, so maybe that’s why?
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I’m not sure I understand your question. You mean your featured image displays when viewing the single post alone although it’s 620×380 instead of 640×392? Link to the post please.
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I know what @vintagejenta means. I have corrected two images:
This one by creating a brand new image cropped to 640 x 392 px and attaching it to the post as a featured image (deleting the previous one before): http://sadabombon.com/2011/10/03/ficm/
This one by accessing the featured image from the Media Library, click on ‘edit image’, click on ‘scale image’ (it shows 620 x 380), write 640 in the ‘620’ field and click ‘scale’. Then I go to the post and there is the image showing up just fine: http://sadabombon.com/2011/10/05/la-garnacha-sonambula/
I like much better the second choice because is very fast, and I don’t even have to edit the post, I do everything within the Media Library. I don’t know if this is the correct way to do it (or if I’ll have problems later because of doing it this way), I’m waiting for some update or final words from WP staff in order to begin the process of manually changing hundreds of images.
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@jzanella: Thanks – I know how the post editor works, but vintagejenta’s response seems strange and I wanted to check a post to see what’s working where.
Your second choice will do as a quick remedy, so that you won’t have to resize and reupload previous images, but WP would tell you it defeats the purpose of the change they made, which was precisely to prevent upscaling hence loss of quality. But we can put it in another way too: your solution overrides the change they suddenly imposed.
As for “final words”, why, did you hear any initial words? They made this change without any warning or announcement, and left us struggling with this. I’ve been testing the themes like mad trying to figure out what’s working and what’s not working and why…
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Wow ty, @jzanella… you just saved me from despair, as i’d need to re-upload about 200 images… or more? hehe
And well @panaghiotisadam, I agree, and I also feel no featured image on the single posts is also a severe loss of quality. Yes, I’d also liked to hear some warning, i just noticed by chance as i was rather busy the last 2 weeks and couldn’t blog. Thanks @all!
Oh, links, both with the Structure theme.
http://zulja.wordpress.com
http://huggykissypirates.wordpress.com
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