I don’t want the thumbs full size, of course. I would just prefer to eliminate the blue space…
Have a look at this guide I gave someone else for how to change the size of the squares on the homepage:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/pics-boxes?replies=4#post-5629440
Just let me know if you run into any trouble along the way.
I tried that. Although, considering I wanted to test it first, I made the modifications in the themes functions.php code prior to spending the time to create child themes. This resulted in no change even after changing the default image/media settings within WP and running the regenerate thumbnails plugin. Am I missing something?
From my understanding the only motivation for child themes is to avoid losing custom css in the event of a theme update. Therefore, modifying the themes functions.php code should render similar results, right?
Looks like you’ve moved on to another theme as I mentioned in your other threads, so I’m marking this as resolved. If anyone runs into the same problem with another site, feel free to start a new thread.