LifterLMS and image size 800×616

  • Resolved Rubidze

    (@rubidze)


    4 years, 10 months ago

    I was using Regenerate thumbnails plugin to correct image sizes and noticed that LifterLMS has registered 2 image sizes:
    lifterlms_certificate_background: 800×616 pixels (cropped to fit)
    llms_notification_icon: 64×64 pixels (cropped to fit)

    This generates extra files for each image in our system. While smaller one doesn’t hurt much, the bigger ones can take alot of space in total if site has lots of images. Some galleries may have tens of thousands of them.

    So I wonder:
    1) Where and what for LifterLMS is using images with these dimensions?
    2) Why larger one has to be 800×616? which is not proportional to any common size? If 800×600 would be used, we could use these sizes for multiple purposes, but these cropped images even don’t show us desired content as it cuts of the edges.
    3) Would it be possible to set LifterLMS to use some of our own, already available and required sizes?

    Thanks in advance!

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  • Hi @rubidze,

    1. The Notification Icons are the pop ups that show up when you, for example, complete a course. You can see these under LifterLMS->Settings->Notifications under any of the Basic settings options. The Certificate Background image is just that, the background image for the certificates in Engagements->Certificates.

    2. This was part of the build for certificates. It wasn’t designed to be used for multiple purposes, it was designed only for the certificate builder in mind. The same logic for the Notification Icons. They were designed to specifically fit that setting.

    3. In what context? You can technically override any of the image settings, but if you can tell me a little more about what you want to do specifically I can point you in the best direction for accomplishing that!

    Let us know if you have any further questions!

    Thanks and take care,

    Thread Starter Rubidze

    (@rubidze)

    Thank you @nrherron for explaining some things for me. Let me explain little bit more about why I am asking this. This is mainly because I am trying to “standardize” image sizes and aspect ratios across my site.

    4:3 aspect ratio is very common. Many devices take photos in this ratio. So, I am trying to use on my site lower resolutions with the same ratio to avoid automatic cropping which may cut some necessary parts.

    So, besides some thumbnail sizes I am trying to stick with these resolutions: 150×100, 400×300, 800×600 and 1600×1200. All of them the same aspect ratio. If really needed, then I’ll go with some other common aspect ratios like 16:9 for FullHD or 3:2 for SLR cameras.

    I was just wondering, why LifterLMS creates this 800×616 resolution for the whole WordPress site? As a result, we have images of this resolution on our servers for every image we upload. Let’s say if we have thousands of images on our website and need this background just for one or few, we still have thousands of images with this 800×616 resolution. They just take up server space.

    I think it would be wise that developers will take a look at this and rethink if there would be better way to handle certificate background image sizes.

    Meanwhile, if I change this certificate background image to 800×600, will it break some LifterLMS layouts? Will certificates look ugly or something?

    Hi @rubidze,

    We are in the process of rebuilding the certificate system as a whole! So, this is definitely something that I’m sure the development team will take a look at!

    For now, if you change the image size this should not have any negative affect on the images for the certificate!

    If you have customized margins for the certificate content these might shift slightly, but you should then be able to correct those in the certificate builder.

    Please let us know if you have any further questions!

    Thanks and take care,

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