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I know. But I am saying that the crop for the Thumbnail looks totally ridiculous.

I want to have some control over how the thumbnails display so they don’t either crop or stretch. i want them to just show up as thumbnails like – well – normal…

Hi Fish.

I have two issues. I will take your suggestion on resizing the blog images but would like to deal with this later.

For the moment I am more concerned with the thumbnail issue because I have been trying to troubleshoot this for something like two weeks and it appears to me there is some conflict within the theme.

I have set the Settings > Media as suggested in the instruction.html for F8 Static. The thumbnails are to be set at 310w x 150h. They are set like this. I have checked the crop checkbox and now have the following:

https://formpig.com/blog/category/architecture/

All the images here are now showing up at the correct size (no stretching) but they are being cropped. There must be something better that can be done here. If you scroll down to the bottom there is a portrait of a guy and all we see is his beard. This looks ridiculous.

Are we saying that either my THUMBNAILS in this theme are going to get stretched /or/ they are going to get cropped?

This is supposedly a photographic theme and this seems ridiculous. I mean, I don’t want to be a wiseguy or to complain but I mean, why don’t we have the text stretched while we are at it.

I guess what I am hoping to find out is if it is possible in this theme to not have the thumbnail images cropped in this manner and to not have them stretched. I’ve spent a lot of time perfecting the site with the expectation that this could be solved and it seems sort of ridiculous that this can’t be solved.

Is there a totally different way to display thumbnails that I should be trying…?

Hey Fish.

A big huge thanks.

Thank you for the functions.php info. I have been able to get the post images resized by going into the Edit Post, selecting the image edit icon and going to the Advanced Tab.

Can I please ask you if there is a reason why setting the /width/ on the Settings > Media section for Large at 600 and the height at nothing – won’t do the same thing as the functions.php edit?

Also, more importantly –

are you using the “Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions (normally thumbnails are proportional)” checkbox?!! It seems to me that having this UNCHECKED will always cause your thumbnails to get stretched unless you size them individually (which I really don’t want to have to do). I just want to set a height or a width that they all conform to. Does this make sense?

But this does not work when I try and set a height only to 150 (no width) or a width only to 310 (no height).

If I am following you correctly the point is that I don’t have images that are all the same size or all the same proportionally (width to height). They are all different and I just want them to all show up as thumbnails /either/ with a constant height or with a constant width.

Does that make sense??

THANKS.

Hi Reverend Voodoo.

Thanks.

Can I ask you to please drop a little more good mojo on this post?

I have also been setting just the width in this section for the large image size. I have also tried this with the Thumbnail size (by setting just the width or just the height) and my thumbnails are all getting stretched.

If – say – I set the maximum image size to something like 400 for a width – and I see images that show up on my site that are larger than this, does that mean there is a bug somewhere?

I don’t believe I am able to get this setting to work globally on either large images or on thumbnail images…

Thanks!

Michael, how do I edit the image thumnails?

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Hi Michael and Esmi.

Thank you so much. Can someone please tell me exactly how to fix this?

I have downloaded the regenerate thumbnails plug-in and have been trying various settings in the SETTINGS> MEDIA section of wordpress. I then run the regenerate thumbnail plug-in and these images are *always* stretched.

There is nothing I have been able to do – no combination of settings for THUMBNAIL (i.e. 150px no height, no width and 150 height etc. etc. etc) – that stops these images from being stretched.

This is really problematic for my site and I have been trying to troubleshoot what appears to be a bug for two weeks now.

Thanks,

Jonathan

Hi Coleen, All.

I have gotten the instructions.html for Static and opened the Media Section and changed the settings to those suggested in the instructions.html:

“F8 is a 950px wide, one or two column theme, depending on options you have chosen. We need to set up your default image and thumbnail sizes to allow for easy posting and consistent design structure. Click Settings – Media.

Set your thumbnail size to 310px wide by 150px tall.
Set your medium size images to 590px wide. Do not set a height.
Set your large size images to 950px wide. Do not set a height.”

Anyone able to advise as to why these pages are still getting stretched?

Thanks.

– Jon

OK. I got #1 and #3 nailed down.

Does anyone know how to stop this theme from stretching images?

https://formpig.com/blog/?cat=13

thanks!

Hi Coleen, Fish, All.

I want to give a big huge thank you for the help. I have been able to solve this on my end at last.

Apologies for the multiple posts and questions on this but a huge thanks for getting me moving finally on this.

THANKS!

Hi Coleen,

This is the link that I understand:
www.formpig.com/pdf/formpig_analysis and design of digital surfaces for architecture_chalfant.pdf

Here is what I am seeing on my end from you:
"href://formpig.com/pdf/formpig_contouring_mans.pdf" target="_blank" > formpig.com</a>

Do you want to see:
“href://www.formpig.com/pdf/formpig_analysis and design of digital surfaces for architecture_chalfant.pdf” target=”_blank” > formpig.com

Or do you want me to leave out the “www” or anything else?

Thanks(!)

Hi Coleen, esmi, All.

Almost there. I guess I can’t post an image here but in the WP UI it asks me for a “Link URL” and the entry box is /prefilled/ out with “https://”.

In your example do I start to put in the part /after/ "<a "href://"

Yes? If so, do I leave out something at the end?

*Or* do I put this in /after/ the “https://”?

I guess i *totally* see the part between “formpig” and “pdf”. I get this part. I don’t understand what this business is at the end or if I need to put my part in quotes or if I have to include the <a "href://

Can you get me there?

Thanks.

Hi. The blog is at https://www.formpig.com/blog

Anybody able to help teach this newbie how to start to fish?

Thanks.

Hi.

My blog is at https://www.formpig.com/blog

Can someone help out with how to alter these two default entries?

THANKS!

Hi Coleen, All.

Yes. I’m most grateful.

I will take out /all/ of the -‘s, yes? Also should there be /any/ spaces in this code?

“Your Link Text” just means whatever I want the link to read as, yes? Like above it reads “formpig.com”.

Also, can I please ask you the following?

The WP UI allows me to type the Your Link Text part. I then highlight this part and click on the “link” button. At that point a dialog pops up that starts “https://”.

In this case am I just putting in the text in the code that you give that is after the “//”? For instance I start with “formpig.com/pdf/…”?

Is that right?

Thanks!

Hey Man.

Thanks. My earlier post seems to have gotten muddled with http somehow. I think I just need help making sure I have the correct syntax for making the link open in a new window.

You said:

The first target=”_blank” will open manually placed links in a new window. Link Text

That one is for manually placed links only. It doesn’t matter what the file type is, because target=”_blank” just tells the browser to show the document in a new browser window”

And I am wondering if you can help me get the following image in the correct syntax.

Can you show me how in the following “normal link” I add the: target=”_blank – and what it should look like?

https://www.formpig.com/pdf/formpig_contouring_mans.pdf

I’ve been used to doing “https://” and adding https://www.formpig.com/pdf/formpig_contouring_mans.pdf

So I’m just trying to make sure I add the ‘ and ” and target=”_blank in the right places and in the right way…

Thank You.

thank you.