Featured Image – Pages & Blog

I like the idea of using the featured image and placing it as the header banner image, which makes every page or blog page using a different header image, but…

There is a problem doing this, that can be easily fixed.

No-one will know the theme uses a featured image for its header background image, so the average user will not see or realize this right off the start, since there is no documentation to state this.

Most featured images are sort-of square and are not at the correct width and height to use as a background image for a full width header of a page or blog page.

This image size issue is what causes the featured image to end up mostly misaligned, per the image content, where most of the image content ends up as cut off or off page (hidden).

In short, this issue makes use of featured images useless for the average WordPress user.

Question
To allow the image content to show correctly as a header background image, what is the best size for a featured image we can use for the theme to properly show it as its header background image?

Thanks.

Suggestion
Please create documentation that states the best image size for Featured images since it will be placed as a background image in the page or blog page header (top area).

• This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by lospeso.