Featured image help

  • comwhiz

    (@comwhiz)


    9 years ago

    Hi,

    I understand that the default resolution for featured images, unless changed in functions.php is 352×230 (please correct me if I am wrong). I usually double that resolution to 704×460 when creating my featured images so as to get higher quality images. However, what should I do in order to later have control over the size of the featured image as it appears in the post (as compared to on the left of the post excerpt on the homepage)?

    My site URL is https://www.aliceinonesieland.com, if that helps.

    Thanks!

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  • Theme Author Freelancelot

    (@ifreelancelot)

    Hi,

    yes that is correct, the size of the blog post featured image in the side layout of the blog is 352 x 230 (image cut: oceanic_blog_img_side). As this is only the side layout size though it won’t affect the other cuts of the image.

    In the premium version of the theme there is an option to disable the displaying of the blog post’s featured image on the full post page. This would give you more control over how the post looks as it wouldn’t always display the featured image at the top of the post by default. You would then be able to upload a different image to the featured image or a bigger / smaller image and place it where you want.

    Hope this helps!

    Thread Starter comwhiz

    (@comwhiz)

    Hi,

    What I mean is that let’s say I have an image of 704 x 460, but I only want it to display at the top of my post as 352 x 230. How can I achieve that? Because it seems that when I upload the featured image, it appears as 352 x 230 on my blog’s front page (which is correct) but 704 x 460 at the top of the post itself when I want it to appear at 352 x 230. (I choose to blow up the resolution so that even when people zoom in on the page, the image won’t start to look pixelated.)

    Theme Author Freelancelot

    (@ifreelancelot)

    Hi,

    the default size of the featured image displayed at the top of the single post page is the “full” size. Which in your case would be 704 x 460. So the best way to achieve what you’re after would be to upload a featured image of exactly 325 x 230 so that even the full size image is the size of the featured image on the main blog page in side layout mode.

    If you would like to use an image of 704 x 460 on the blog post page but only have it display at 325 x 230 then you would need to set the width and height of the image in the image tag to 325 and 230 to force it smaller. In order to do this though you would need to disable the the displaying of the featured image on the single post page. Which is a setting available in the premium version of the theme. As you would then be able to insert your own image at the top of the post via the WYSIWYG editor. And in doing so be able to set a custom width and height in the HTML.

    Hope this makes sense!

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