Images not getting cropped

  • sehnot

    (@sehnot)


    8 years, 6 months ago

    Hey,

    first of all, I love the theme, it looks really great.

    But there is one thing implemented in a bad way. The featured image is always shown as a part of the uploaded image! Meaning, instead of creating a “thumbnail” of the image (e.g. 1280x640px) it loads the original images and then shows only part of it:

    Look at the article:
    http://phototrix.wpengine.com/2015/10/08/ankunft-in-rio-de-janeiro/

    It shows an image of Rio de Janeiro on top. The dimensions of that visible part are 1280x640px.

    Now, the image shown has the dimensions 1600x1200px:
    http://phototrix.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/60076_1600x1200-wallpaper-cb1349990553.jpg

    Usually themes create the thumbnails they need, in this case a 1280x640px thumbnail. Tracks instead loads the original image and then shows only a part of it. In this case it shows only 43% of the original image. That’s horrible if you think of the traffic and loading times it causes.

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  • Theme Author Ben Sibley

    (@bensibley)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    The issue is a bit more complicated than that. If you take retina and 4k displays into account, the image could be 2,560px wide and fill the space without wasting a pixel.

    The way it is now, users can display high-resolution images if they want to. If you don’t want a 1,600px image to load, then a smaller image should be uploaded.

    As for the dimensions of the image shown, I can provide you with some CSS to change the aspect ratio from 2:1 to something else if you’d like.

    In a future update for Tracks, there will be an option to use an image’s natural dimensions instead of a set aspect ratio.

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