Post Thumbnail / Feature Image Next To Excerpt

Sorry to be a nag.

Is there any way to change the size of the featured images using CSS in a style sheet?

check this: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/the_post_thumbnail#Styling_Post_Thumbnails

Are these images linked? Linked to the post or linked to a bigger version of the image?

Ah I tried changing the size using the img.wp-post-image selector and it worked! It’s a little bit confusing that I couldn’t do the same before – i don’t know what i’ve done differently now.

I would like to link them to the post. I tried using this code:

<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail()) : ?>
   <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" >
   <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
   </a>
 <?php endif; ?>

however it seems that it screws up the sizing.

Can I ask, How do most theme developers set up their featured images aka post thumbnails?

do they pass parameters to the thumbnail to set the size or do they just css?

Pass parameters every time. Using CSS for image resizing isn’t good practice. Why pull a 800 x 400px image into a page if you’re only go to show it at 200 x 100px? Plus browsers are generally lousy at resizing images nicely.

yes <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?> will put inline width and height parameters in in the image tag that cannot be changed by css.
try with this(not tested):

<?php
if ( has_post_thumbnail($post->ID)) {
      echo '<a href="' . get_permalink() . '" title="' . the_title_attribute('','', false );  . '">';
      $post_thumbnail_id = get_post_thumbnail_id( $post_id );
      // replace 'thumbnail' with the image size you want to show
      $image_attributes = wp_get_attachment_image_src( $post_thumbnail_id, 'thumbnail' ); // returns an array

      echo '<img src="'.$image_attributes[0].'" class="my-thumbnails" />';
      echo '</a>';
}
?>

If this works you can style the images with a class off “my-thumbnails”

[edit] what esmi says makes sense though.

Ah ok,

thank you to the both of you.

So you would pass size parameters (or a pre-defined image size) when using the_post_thumbnail?

Would you then use the AJAX thumbnail plugin to change the size if you wanted to later or how would you change the size?