Mess with thumbnails due to changed code!

webbeetle
(@webbeetle)

5 years, 12 months ago

Nico!

Every version update in the last year or so seems to introduce new problems.

Now the latest we have is
add_image_size( 'thumb-small', 80, 80, true );//used for Hueman Dynamic Tabs widget <= april 2020 changed from 160x160 to 80x80 for https://github.com/presscustomizr/hueman/issues/866

which means the widget now displays two different thumbnail sizes! I took a screen snipped at the time: https://snipboard.io/2KcEhp.jpg
(I can’t give you the link any longer, this [the bottom post at the time] has been moved out by the next update.) When I first installed Hueman I purposely changed the standard WordPress thumbnail (used for the media gallery) to 160×160 to have one thumbnail less… Now this mess. 🙁

I’m sick of all these changes! The theme has become such a bloated “monster” that the file size has grown from 1.9mb (Alx’s last version) no nearly 6.8mb now. When will you stop fiddling with a previously great theme and not try to make it “everyone’s whore” (meaning: catering to too many possibilities)?

I’m actively working to get rid of this mess of theme. I’m a user since mid 2014. The now bloated code is decremental to page speed, too. By the number of active installs I seem to be one of tens of thousands previous users… Was this what you are aiming for? If I were be you, I would re-write the theme code right from scratch and release a so-called ‘light version’, which works and doesn’t have bells and whistles.

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yallaman
(@yallaman)

5 years, 12 months ago
I agree. The change from 160×160 to 80×80 px for the Dynamic Tabs widget looks like a mistake, probably as a result of @nikeo trying to figure out the “best” resolution to use in other parts of the theme (featured image, related posts etc.). But these tiny thumbnails should be 160×160 px, as it was before April.

(Besides, there is no 80×80 size in Hueman’s default image sizes. The smallest one is 160×160 px = “thumb-small”).
- This reply was modified 5 years, 12 months ago by yallaman.
Theme Author presscustomizr
(@nikeo)

5 years, 12 months ago

Hello @webbeetle @yallaman, thanks for reporting this issue.
Yes, in order to optimize image sizes and therefore reduce page load time, this image size has been adapted.
The small-thumb size is used for the tab widget : https://github.com/presscustomizr/hueman/blob/dev/functions/widgets/alx-tabs.php#L155
It is always displayed with dimensions of 80×80. That’s why it’s been changed from 160×160 to 80×80.
Maybe I’m missing something, why should it be 160×160 for you? Can you provide an example that I can reproduce, where this new size breaks something in the the rendering ?

Thread Starter webbeetle
(@webbeetle)

5 years, 12 months ago

I had provided a link to a screen capture https://snipboard.io/2KcEhp.jpg
where it was visible how the theme display stumbled. I can’t replicate it now.

Anyhow: I’d rather prefer if you would acknowledge my (or our) main concern about the constant add-ons and changes (file size, conflicts, etc.). Hueman is certainly not as lean and fast as it used to be!