thumbnail size

Hi rikengct
Have you tried with a different image size:
https://keesiemeijer.wordpress.com/related-posts-by-taxonomy/#image-size

I’m asking because you’re using full sized images for the thumbnails.

hi, thanks.

for the desktop, I’m using this shortcode
[related_posts_by_tax posts_per_page=”4″ related_posts_by_tax columns=”2″ format=”thumbnails” image_size=”post-thumbnail” related_posts_by_tax order=”RAND” related_posts_by_tax title=”Related Posts”]

But, I have tried using “medium” for the image size, and it just makes smaller to-scale version of the thumbnails. I guess I want a way so that they aren’t to-scale, but are forced to be centered in a box of the same size, if that makes sense?

hi rikengct, i visited ur site, if u want forced size box for ur image, you can try it with css, i tried below css on ur site it looks good to me.

#gallery-2 img {
  border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;
  height: 150px;
}

but i don’t know how will you asign a custom class for related posts thumbnails or if there’s any method to include the custom width and height in shortcode in place of “medium” or “post-thumbnail”

hi thanks! That definitely seems to work at least as far as getting everything the same size.
is it possible to make it so images aren’t distorted?

i don’t think so, the image need space to go somewhere, that’s why you saw the images like they were bedore applying css when they are scaled.
when you confined them to certan width either they will be a little distorted like you see them now or they will be cropped. but i don’t know how the crop method works. if u r fine with crop method i’ll take a look into it.

if i m right the images are displayed in the table layout. if they can be inserted into a <div> somehow then we can apply the css overflow: hidden; that will crop the extra part of the image.
like this here

It seems you don’t have an image size that crops the thumbnails. The only way I can think of is to add a new image size for post thumbnails
https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/functions/add_image_size/

You may have to regenerate the the old thumbnails with the new cropped thumbnail size
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

If you’re going this route make a backup of your database and images first.
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/WordPress_Backups#Database_Backup_Instructions

Ooooh, try this first

Use “thumbnail” instead of “post-thumbnail” for the image_size attribute. Sorry I didn’t see that earlier.

[related_posts_by_tax posts_per_page="4" columns="2" format="thumbnails" image_size="thumbnail" order="RAND" title="Related Posts"]

thanks everyone.
I’ll try that and get back. I’m ok with being cropped (similar to the post slider at the top of the blog).

using “thumbnail” as the image size reduced the size of all the images, but left them in the natural proportions.

I actually saw the site mentioned above (like this here) before asking my question here. It does seem like the way to go, but as I did not write the plugin, I’m not sure where it needs to be changed to add the extra div.

I’ll keep playing around with it. having irregular sizes isn’t that big of a deal. I know that if I wanted them regular I should just make the main images for the posts the same dimensions.

The images are already in their own container (dt tag) with a class .gallery-icon