Title: Replace automatic thumbnails with customized ones
Last modified: April 16, 2017

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# Replace automatic thumbnails with customized ones

 *  [WordTech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordtech/)
 * (@wordtech)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-automatic-thumbnails-with-customized-ones/)
 * Hi all
 * I’ve a problem that in first instance can be quite obvious but I can’t solve.
 * I upload the featured image of a post, lets say at 800×400, and it appears ok
   in the places where it does at 800×400.
 * The problem is that wordpress uses thumbnails of this image to show for example
   the image of the post in “related articles”, and it can be at 150×150 or 123×
   90 or so.
 * Why problem? Firstly, proportion between width and height is hugely different
   from 800×400 (2:1) to 150:150 (1:1). Its almost impossible to make an image 2:
   1 not to lose important parts when automatically cutted to 1:1. I know I can 
   set by drag and drop the part of the image I want to use as thumbnail, but it’s
   not enought.
 * Second problem, even without change proportion of image, sometimes an image that
   looks ok at 800×400 does not at 150×150 (unreadable text, etc).
 * So, I want to be able to manually set a different image as the featured image
   at a given size. In this way I could design in photoshop a different version 
   of it, not only a cropped one.
 * I mean, not a completely different image, but a one where I can resize elements,
   disable some of them (such as text), an it can’t be made by cropping.
 * Is there any way to do this?
 * Many thanks and regards.
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