Title: Featured Image keeps cropping
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Featured Image keeps cropping

 *  [matreece](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matreece/)
 * (@matreece)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-keeps-cropping/)
 * After spending 3 evenings trying to figure this out I’m throwing it out to you
   guys…its driving me insane.
 * This should be simple – I have built a custom theme, and all I want to do is 
   display a thumbnail that links to a lightbox effect once clicked.
 * I want my dimensions to be 214 width x unlimited height for the thumbnail, and
   500 width x unlimited height for the lightbox effect. No cropping.
 * What I get from the code I currently have is a cropped thumbnail at 214 x 214
   and cropped lightbox at 500 x 500.
 * Why is it cropping? I have checked the media settings within my wordpress admin
   and this makes no difference – assuming my code is overwriting these setting 
   anyway (?)
 * In my function I am using the following code:
 *     ```
       add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'brian_scripts' );
       if ( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) ) {
       add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
       set_post_thumbnail_size( 214, 9999, false );
       add_image_size('large', 500, 9999, true); //custom size
       }
       ```
   
 * And to display them I’m using:
 *  `<?php
    /*Template Name: Archive Canvases*/ ?>
 * <?php get_header(‘archivecanvas’); query_posts(‘cat=4&order=ASC’); ?>
 * <div class=”header archivecanvasheader”>
    <h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1> </div
   > <div class=”mainContent”><?php if (have_posts()) { ?> <?php while (have_posts()):
   the_post(); ?>
 * <div id=”archiveContainer”>
    <div id=”archivePic”>
 *  <a rel=”lightbox” href=”<?php $image_id = get_post_thumbnail_id();
    $image_url
   = wp_get_attachment_image_src($image_id,’large’, true); echo $image_url[0]; ?
   >”><?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { the_post_thumbnail(); } ?></a>
 *  </div>
 * <div id=”archivecanvasContent”>
    <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2> <div class=”date”
   ><?php the_time(‘Y’) ?></div> <p><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p>
 * </div>
    </div> <?php endwhile; ?>
 * <?php } ?>
    <?php posts_nav_link(); ?></div>
 * <?php get_footer(); ?>`
 * Can anyone help or have any ideas if something else is overriding this?

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-keeps-cropping/#post-3496868)
 * If you’re trying to stretch the image to a large height, WordPress may well be
   trying to keep the correct dimensions.
 * Or, have you checked whether there is any CSS applying this?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-keeps-cropping/#post-3496868)
 * Status: not resolved

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