Twenty Eleven Showcase Featured Image 500px
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I’ve set up a showcase page in Twenty Eleven and created a mock post to test the Featured Post section. I read somewhere that the max featured image width is 500px to have it appear next to the post intro (I’m not using the Header image).
So my question is: why does my Featured Post image appear to be much smaller than the one on the Twenty Eleven demo?
http://twentyelevendemo.wordpress.com/showcase/
Is it the height? Scaling? (Something to do with my gallery image being way too big because I didn’t edit the jpeg before uploading?)
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
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That’s because the two images have different aspect ratios (yours is squarer). The featured post section has a fixed height, so the displayed version of the featured image gets scaled down to fit that height as well. Maximum displayed width is 500px, maximum displayed height is 299px.
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Thanks, justpi! I didn’t see max height anywhere.
Here’s the text from http://en.support.wordpress.com/featured-images/
“An image with a minimum height of 300 pixels and a maximum width of 500 pixels will display next to the post.”
So happy to have this solved. It’s a tiny issue but it was bugging me.
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You’re welcome.
The text you quoted is inaccurate.
First, the image you upload doesn’t have to be 500px wide or less: it can be larger (for example the image on the demo page is 840×558). It’s the displayed version that will be 500px wide max.
Second, the image you upload doesn’t have to be 300px high or more: a shorter one will also show up.
Third, the text doesn’t really clarify what the result will actually be (hence your original question). As I wrote above, the displayed version can’t be wider than 500px or higher than 299px: a larger original will be scaled down to observe the one or the other restriction, depending on its aspect ratio. -
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