Book Cover Image Size Setting

The plugin uses whatever the thumbnail size is set to on your site. This is either coming from your media settings or your theme (if your theme is overriding the default thumbnail size). I would try changing the thumbnail size on the Media Settings page to see if that’s what’s doing it.

Hey, I wanted to respond because I feel as though I’m having the same problem.

https://books.dearisobel.org/book-review/my-notorious-gentleman/

The image itself is only 124×200. On my media settings page, I have three different types of image settings:

Thumbnail: 150×150

I’m not sure how to make the huge image stop showing up.

Okay guys, I’ve just pushed an update that should take care of this. I think in some cases the theme probably overrides the thumbnail size setting for its own use and ends up affecting anything else that might be using the thumbnail size (which is what I was using).

With the 1.4.11 update, the Book Review Library has its own, internal size, scaled down to 133×200 pixels (which is 6:9, standard book-cover aspect ratio). A new setting appears on the options page to choose whether you want to use this or the default theme/WordPress thumbnail size. If you are having issues using the thumbnail size, using the internal book cover size will fix it. The plugin will default to using the thumbnail setting (so there will be no change evident on the front end until the setting is changed on the options page).

Thanks so much for the quick reply and fix. Maybe, I’m not looking in the right place, but I don’t see an option to change this. I loaded it from a new browser to make sure it wasn’t just my cookies affecting it. I looked in the Book Reviews >> Options, as well as double checking my Media Settings.

@melissasue Did you upgrade Book Review Library to 1.4.11?

Found the problem. One of the files I changed didn’t get pushed up to the repository. Give it about 30 minutes, then delete the plugin and reinstall. You won’t lose any of your reviews or settings, but you should get the new option after reinstalling.

Actually, I just tested it on a live site and it should be working now if you delete/reinstall.

I received the new option, and updated to do the book aspect. However, I still get the same large image. I went into to the review, reset the featured image and still no change. Am I doing something wrong?

Can you post a URL to your site?

https://books.dearisobel.org/book-review/the-masterful-mr-montague/

Oh, you’re talking about the single review page. That’s entirely controlled by your theme. I thought you were talking about the book lists when you are using the shortcode because that’s actually what is being generated by the plugin. You’ll need to use a custom CSS plugin (like Jetpack’s CSS editor or My Custom CSS) to fix that. Then you’ll want to add this to the custom CSS:

.book-review .entry-thumbnail img {
     width: auto!important;
}

Good grief. I had a feeling it was a user error. Thanks for helping ?? I think I’ll just make a template for the reviews, which should clear that problem up one would hope.