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1. websta
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Background: I am working on a theme using the WordPress 3 "Set Featured Image" function to display thumbnails on a category page here.

   However the image displayed is actually the full, original size image with a smaller width and height setting, causing the page to download slowly.

   I am calling the image via:
   <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>

   Question: Are there additional settings or coding so that the image called is the WordPress-resized thumbnail (imagename-150x150.jpg instead of imagename.jpg)?

2. websta
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   So, the "set featured post" function really does call the original image?

   Really?!?!

   Not to point out the obvious, but using full-size images slows down sites significantly.

   To avoid that slowdown, developers would have to resize the image on their own, upload it separately, and set that user-created-thumbnail as the featured image. This is a step backwards for WordPress.

   Why isn't the "feature" grabbing the -150x150 thumbnail?

   And is this the only info on this feature in the Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails ???

3. websta
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   oic...

   functions.php needs to have this added:

   set_post_thumbnail_size( 50, 50, true ); // 50 pixels wide by 50 pixels tall, hard crop mode

   and NOT this:

   set_post_thumbnail_size( 50, 50 ); // 50 pixels wide by 50 pixels tall, box resize mode

   Per: http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/

   Hopefully, this information -- and more -- will be added to the Codex soon.

   P.S. Please come up with more clever (read: searchable) names for WordPress features in the future: Featured Images, Custom Post Types, capital-P-Pages, etc. I mean really. How confused do you want us to get? You couldn't have called them, like, "Thumbies," or "Snippets," or "Static Pages?" Anything unique will work. Heck, I wouldn't mind if you called them rover, fido and spot, just please use searchable feature names in the future.

4. mykey
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   great find!
   hopefully they'll take your suggestions.

5. karmrajsinh
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   hi i just want to know that how to get the featured image name not the image ?

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