How to crop featured image?

Hi @auitje the featured image for your posts are in different sizes, can you please upload them to the site after resizing them to your liking?

You can use applications on your machine to resize the images, additionally, you can use other free online tools.

Hi @auitje It looks like folks have requested a better way to set how the featured image is displayed on the GitHub issue below:

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/47274

I have added your experience, you can follow the conversation to see what the developers say. In the meantime, I would suggest using CSS to change the height of the featured image. You can adjust the height to your preference.

.wp-block-post-featured-image img {
    height: 500px;
    object-fit: cover;   
}

You can access the CSS editor by adding this after your URL /wp-admin/customize.php and visiting the Additional CSS panel.

Hi @auitje

1. would it be possible to have the reader click on the featured image and link to the entire picture?
2. is there a way that I could select the part of the picture that is displayed in this now fixed-size frame?

It won’t be possible to do the above, maybe you can find a plugin that you can use to achieve this.

However, instead of using the Post Featured Image block on your post templates, you can add a cover block to the top of each post. The cover block allows you to adjust the image height and pick which area on the image you want to be displayed but you still can’t link it to the full image.

I do see the featured image when previewing or after publishing, however, when I edit the post, I do not see it above the post? Is that correct behaviour?

That is the expected behaviour, the featured image for posts and pages cannot be viewed when editing the post.

I could select ‘link to featured image’ – but now, a few clicks further, I cannot re-find that selection. Can you help me find it?

When you add the cover block you have the option to upload an image, use one from your media library , or use the featured image. I believe that’s when you saw this.

And, although I replaced it, I cannot edit the cover block for specific posts. Maybe that is because I linked it to the featured image?

My apologies for not being clear, if you use the Cover Block option you have to add it to your posts, not the single template.

1. Remove the Post Featured Image or Cover block from the single template
2. On each post add the Cover block

Still, I have the question if the cover image can be clickable, so the entire image can be shown?

It won’t be possible to link the cover block to the full image, you can check featured image plugins achieve what you want.