steven-stallone

Ok, I figured out why the image was cropping. Firstly I tried the solution above and It had no effect. What I didn’t realize that there was additional coding I was unaware of in the functions.php which limited any featured image in any post to just 200, 200. So there was already code to handle featured images already. I just didn’t realize it. The solution wasn’t needed after all but I did learn my first insight about php and that was the ‘true/false’ values

Origional

add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
set_post_thumbnail_size( 200, 200, true );
add_image_size( 'primary-post-thumbnail', 620, 9999 );
add_image_size( 'secondary-post-thumbnail', 300, 9999 );

In the original I changed the first value from 200 to 700 but the image wouldn’t crop to width but to height then I remembered the explanation of why the value was set to false in the solution above. That is the switch for the width to take precedence. So then I modified the original code to 700, 9999, false. and it worked.

Modified

add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
set_post_thumbnail_size( 700, 9999, false );
add_image_size( 'primary-post-thumbnail', 620, 9999 );
add_image_size( 'secondary-post-thumbnail', 300, 9999 );

Thanks Chip

The width of the single column. That’s the same width as the embedded YouTube clip which is 700.

I edited the first post to fix the link but it never saved