My first grid-style custom theme

  • I started this site today:

    https://shirleyandthemastics.com/

    My first grid-based custom theme. It’s widget-ready and supports threaded/nested comments. There’s room for an ad (or ads) in the header. I also want to add a Featured Post slider to the home page. There are no pages yet. It’s a start.

    Any thoughts are welcome.

    Thanks

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  • The images on the posts are cut off on the main page – you have a few people with heads missing.

    Thread Starter Jonas Grumby

    (@ss_minnow)

    Yeah, there’s no way to ensure that it will find people’s faces. I can only tell it how many pixels to crop off the top. It’s a matter of finding something that works in general for all photos.

    Thought as much – isnt there a way to get it to scale the image down rather than crop it?

    Thread Starter Jonas Grumby

    (@ss_minnow)

    I have it set to scale to the width and then show only 60px of the height. It crops the top 30px by putting the image inside a div that has fixed dimensions (200×60) and is set to overflow: hidden; and then setting the image to position: relative; top: -30px;.

    I used the Swift theme for a site, and as fancy as that theme is I had the same problem. The only way around it is to be very specific about how the original photo is cropped. The plan for this site is to have multiple people submitting stories, so I can’t count on that.

    Thread Starter Jonas Grumby

    (@ss_minnow)

    ok that should be better now. I increased the height of the div to 100px and removed the crop.

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