ulim

For the benefit of others, I believe that it is not possible to set the aspect ratio of a single featured image.

To be sure, it *is* possible to set a certain aspect ratio for *all* featured images within the Blocksy customizer. But if you have a mixture of portrait and landscape images, you’re out of luck.

The reasoning seems to be that the “featured image” isn’t necessarily meant to be shown as part of post’s content. Some themes (like Blocksy) will allow that, but the normal way to use featured images is simply as “post thumbnails” for overview pages. On those pages WordPress may generate a grid or a list of posts and so all thumbnails need to have a similar aspect ratio, otherwise the overview page won’t look good.

Therefore, what I will do is define for myself a standard size and aspect ratio for my featured images according to how they would look good on my overview pages. But I will not include the featured images automatically into the post content. Rather, I’ll put them in manually via the Gutenberg editor. It might seem a bit wasteful to have an image twice, once as a featured image and once within the post content, but that will allow me to resize and reposition the image as desired. For example, I could let the text flow around a portrait image, while letting a landscape image take full width.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by ulim.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by ulim.

Adding a smaller image was just my desperate attempt to get a smaller image 🙂

The problem is that portrait images are stretched to a width of 750 pixels, which means that their height is going well above 1400 pixels and you can only see half of the image even on the largest of screens.

So my question is not about image quality, it is how can I have portrait dimensioned images for my posts at all?

Ok, I can shed some light on this issue, but still need some help.

After chmod 777 to the uploads directory and .htaccess file, I could write to both. Interestingly, after resetting the permissions to normal, I could still write to both. So I was able to upload a picture and it does not have owner apache, but php-fpm.

That seems to me horribly dangerous. How can I fix that?

Thanks for the tip with uploading an image, I can’t get that to work either:

Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2020/12. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

So this appears to point to a permission error, but I checked that /var/www/html and wp-content and uploads all have 755. All directories are owned by apache:apache and httpd is running as apache.

Also, I can create directories as user apache by way of:
sudo -S -u apache mkdir wp-content/uploads/testdir

So there seems to be something else broken. I’m using a pre-baked LEMP image from my hosting provider.

That might be a good feature for the Pro version 🙂

Sorry for being unclear, I’m still not that familiar with WordPress and its lingo, but I’m learning 🙂

What I mean is that my website has different pages, for example “About us” or “Contact us” or of course the homepage and the blog page. I was wondering if the header image could be different for some of these pages. So I would have image A on the homepage and image B on “Contact us”. I suppose you could also rephrase this question as “can I have different headers for different pages”?

Kind regards,
Ulrich