Using thumbnail size instead of medium size in stream view

  • Resolved Sofian777

    (@sofian777)


    8 years, 4 months ago

    Hello, I saw today that the images in the stream view are the medium sizes (300px), even if the size is so small that using the thumbnail size (150px) would be enough. Another advantage would be that the image is more used from the center, not from the left part.

    Is there a reason you use the medium size, e.g. to allow developers to create much larger images sizes? (I personally also already changed the height to 150px via CSS)

    Then it is fine to leave it, but maybe you can tell me where in your files I find the code so I can decide myself (if there is a child-theme-override option it is preferable of course)

    Thanks a lot
    Sofian

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar/

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  • Pavel

    (@uchu)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hi Sofian,

    Thanks for raising this topic! You are right about centering the images in stream – I think we can fix it in the upcoming update. We don’t want to create a lot of thumbnails in all possible sizes for different views, so we just use medium there. But maybe we need to rework it a bit, to make sure that we use it more effectively. I’ll raise this question with our development team to see what we can do.

    If you feel brave to make some changes in the code – you can check app/view/event/avatar.php , find a function “get_post_thumbnail_url” there and prepend “thumbnail” to the array of sizes. But it will affect all calendar views (‘posterboard’, for example). And these changes will be wiped out with the next plugin update. So I can’t really recommend it. Unfortunately, there’s no easy way right now just to change something in the child-theme template.

    Btw, it looks better on retina screens when images are bigger than needed =) So, maybe some would prefer to keep them as is.

    Thanks a lot,
    Pavel.

    Thread Starter Sofian777

    (@sofian777)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks Pavel for reply. I meanwhile figured out a very good way to use the center of images even with the 300px version, and you are right, it is better to keep the big ones. Using the thumbnail size was just the only way I could think of when coming across the centering issue.

    Read what I did with the help of a CSS technique, maybe you want to apply it as well in the core:
    http://sundari-webdesign.com/all-in-one-event-calendar-theme-customization-tutorial-my-perfect-wordpress-calendar/

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