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1. KeenanPayne
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   Hello,

   I am having trouble with a theme that I have designed and developed myself.

   I am using post thumbnails on the homepage and single posts, and I need the images to be scaled correctly so they don't look crunched or bad. So here's what I have in my index.php file:

   <?php the_post_thumbnail( 'homepage-thumb', array() ); ?>

   And here's what I have in my functions.php file:

   if (function_exists('add_theme_support')) {
       add_theme_support('post-thumbnails');
   }
   add_image_size( 'homepage-thumb', 176, 99 );

   But whenever I use the above code, you can see how the images look at http://staging.slackrmedia.com/wp/?themedemo=theme. They are uneven in width and that's not what I wanted.

   Can anybody help me out? I would really appreciate it!

   Thanks,
   Keenan

2. potentweb
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   Change add_image_size() to
   add_image_size( 'homepage-thumb', 176, 99, true) the last part true tells it to crop it to exactly that size.

   Brian

3. KeenanPayne
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   Thanks potentweb, except for my code now looks like this:

   if (function_exists('add_theme_support')) {
       add_theme_support('post-thumbnails');
   }
   add_image_size( 'homepage-thumb', 176, 99, true);

   But the result is no different. I just made a new post to test it but the image width wasn't the same. All of the heights are 99, but the widths change.

   http://staging.slackrmedia.com/wp/?themedemo=theme

4. potentweb
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   Hi, you have to regenerate the thumbnails, by installing the thumbnail regeneration plugin. After you add anything new to the add_image_size() function, you have to regenerate the thumbs, it does not automatically regenerate it.

   Found this on the web with examples of how the add_image_size() function works with picture examples.

   http://techblog.willshouse.com/2012/02/15/understanding-wordpress-add_image_size-with-examples/

5. KeenanPayne
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   Thank you very much for that! I completely forgot about regenerating my thumbnails, but that fixed the problem!

6. potentweb
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   No problem. Good luck!

   Brian

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