I would also love to know what size images work best! (For featured images in the slider and post thumbnail).
Ashnik – In the meantime, Alexander told me that if you change the featured posts to 0 the slider will go away. That way you can turn it off until you know the correct image size.
Ashnik I found it!
Thumbnail size should be 345px × 163px
Slider Image size should be 720px × 340px
I hope this helps 🙂
Correct! The ideal or minimum size to upload would be 720x340px.
And for your other questions, you would need to edit the alx_setup functions with a child theme and change these sizes:
// Thumbnail sizes
add_image_size( 'thumb-small', 160, 160, true );
add_image_size( 'thumb-medium', 520, 245, true );
add_image_size( 'thumb-large', 720, 340, true );
See the theme documentation section “Child Theme” to see how.
I have seen the instructions for adjusting the image thumbnail sizes and can’t seem to get it to behave the way I want. My goal is to make the medium-thumb size about half the size as it is from the theme defaults. I have a child functions.php setup and when I play with the size, making the first image parameter larger shrinks the overall size of the image height (crop). I cannot do the same with the width (doesn’t seem to behave the same way – like CSS is taking precedent) and so I can only create an odd thin, wide crop for the image. What am I missing? I am just trying to make the thumbnails smaller to take up less real estate. Here is the text I have in my child functions.php:
add_image_size( ‘thumb-small’, 160, 160, true );
add_image_size( ‘thumb-medium’, 250, 118, true );
add_image_size( ‘thumb-large’, 720, 340, true );
my test website location is here: http://66.147.244.233/~stjohnv8/
Any help is appreciated!!
