Title: the_post_thumbnail issues
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# the_post_thumbnail issues

 *  Resolved [Rhand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhand/)
 * (@rhand)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_post_thumbnail-issues/)
 * I am using this code in my child theme to render thumbnail images for an image
   gallery:
 *     ```
       <!-- Content of the slider Start  -->
   
       		<?php rewind_posts(); $i = 1; while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
       			<div id="fragment-<?php echo $i; ?>" class="ui-tabs-panel" style="">
   
       			<?php if((function_exists('has_post_thumbnail')) && (has_post_thumbnail())) : ?>
   
       			<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail( array(600,450));  ?></a>
   
       			<?php endif; // endif post thumbnail ?>
   
       				<div class="info" >
   
       					<h2><a href="#" ><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
       					<div id="slide-excerpt"><?php the_excerpt(); ?></div>
       					<div id="slide-readmore"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" ><img src="<?php echo CHILDTEMPLATEIMAGES.'/main-slide-readmore.png'; ?>" alt="readmore" >  </img></a></div>
   
       				</div> 
   
       			</div> 
   
       		 <?php $i++; endwhile; ?> 
   
       		  <!-- Content of the slider end  -->
       ```
   
 * Somehow the images are rendered as 500 by 337 pixels and because of that I have
   an ugly empty space of 100 pixels. What am I missing here? Why are they not resized
   properly? The original images are bout 700 pixels by 450 pixels so they should
   do..

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 *  Thread Starter [Rhand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhand/)
 * (@rhand)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_post_thumbnail-issues/#post-1684688)
 * Reading [http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/](http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/)
   at the moment..
 *  Thread Starter [Rhand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhand/)
 * (@rhand)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_post_thumbnail-issues/#post-1684707)
 * Still no idea. Anyone knows how I can enforce resizing? I did upload the images
   anew but they still are 500 by 375, which is really odd..
 *  Thread Starter [Rhand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhand/)
 * (@rhand)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_post_thumbnail-issues/#post-1684770)
 * Never mind. Had to add my custom thumbnail for that gallery and now all seems
   to be peachy. I added the following to my child theme’s functions.php :
 *     ```
       if (function_exists('add_theme_support')) { // thumbnail for homepage gallery
       	add_theme_support('post-thumbnails');
       	add_image_size('tabbed-slider-thumb', 600, 450, true);
       }
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [Rhand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhand/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_post_thumbnail-issues/#post-1684770)
 * Status: resolved

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