I have a fashion blog I am starting and when I create a post, I can select a featured picture. At the top of my theme I have a window that holds my latest five posts. In those windows are my featured pictures. They are only partially visible in the windows. How do I make it so that the photos are scaled to fit. Thanks
Bill
Shawn Hesketh answered 9 years ago
Hi Bill,
It sounds like your theme has specified an odd size for the images that appear in that area.
You'll need to edit the underlying code for your theme to change that behavior. Unless you're comfortable editing PHP and CSS, you'll likely want to hire a developer who can knock out this change for you in just a few minutes.
You can get started with this form:
Hope this helps!
What I have noticed is the photos I upload to the media library are also not fitting in the squares. However, they show in full inside the post. Do you think it is a problem in the media library settings.
Thanks
Bill
Shawn Hesketh
replied 9 years ago It’s very hard to say without knowing which theme you’re using, or seeing an example of what you’re describing.
Some themes are coded better than others. Most themes declare a set of the image sizes used throughout the theme. Then, every time you upload an image, WordPress automatically resizes and/or crops your images to fit those specified sizes.
But if you recently changed themes, it’s possible that images you previously uploaded are not cropped to the correct sizes required by your new theme.
In that event, you might check out the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
It allows you to regenerate all the thumbnails and various image sizes for your current theme. You might try that if you think that might be the issue.