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1. g3legacy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi, so basically I need to crop all images to the same height and width, or at least the same height.

   Ive just been doing the stuff;

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_image_size

   It works great. The issue is using the featured image doesnt allow my shadowbox plugin to work. It needs some sort of info adding in the rel= part of the html for the image. The shadow box plugin works when I add images normally but then I cant seem to access the functionality of the re-sizing that I need.

   I either need a way to get shadowbox to open the big image from the resizes thumbnail ( featured image ), or some other way of altering images sizes.

   The reason for this is the posts are displaying as a list on one page, they will not link to another page, so single.php for example is not being used.

   Any tips are welcome!

   Dan

2. vtxyzzy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   What shadowbox plugin are you using?

3. g3legacy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,

   Its called Shadowbox JS. Its easy to modify so I like it. So far I have come to a solution. Under Settings => Media I changed the thumbnail size and turned the cropping on. Im then going to change the Medium Size to be the other type of image size I need. This should be ok as I needed one thats rectangular and one thats more square.

   Still, it would be interesting to fix the shadow box thing. There is probably a way to preg_match the image url, width, height etc and then insert a rel in there and echo it out? At the moment I just don't have enough time to look at it though....the stuff I altered in WP should do it.

   Dan

4. eridout
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   For setting an image to a consistent width without degrading quality, I've been finding Picasa convenient and easy. (That's the free desktop image editor from Google.) You simply "export" a photo to another folder, and it prompts for a width -- I always take the default of 800 pixels, which works fine for my blog.

5. g3legacy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks for the info. I'm actually going to need something like that for a client so I will look into it. Ive also been looking at the unfortunately named "GIMP". I must say, it would be better to tell the client about something other than that!

   Dan

6. vtxyzzy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   If you are going to deal with jpegs only, the free resizejpegs program from RJL Software works well. It will resize all jpegs in a directory at once if needed.

   I have also used CSS to control the size of some images when they are in a class that is unique:

   img.alignnone.size-full {
      width: 100% !important;
      height: auto !important;
   }

   Having the width at auto retains the proportions of the image.

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