Title: Using a specific thumbnail size
Last modified: September 1, 2016
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# Using a specific thumbnail size
* Resolved [laozor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laozor/)
* (@laozor)
* [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-a-specific-thumbnail-size/)
* Hello,
* I’ll try to be the more precise I can be, as English is not my native language,
so please be understanding ! 🙂 (but don’t hesitate to underline my mistakes)
* (I try to use both “WordPress Popular Posts” AND “Post Thumbnail Editor” plugins)
* Anyway. In fact I may have to distinct questions :
* 1- Actualy, in the settings, I’ve selected the thumbnail to be the “featured
image”. I’ve used PTE to be sure that my thumbnail will look like what I want
it to look like while (175*175) have a “large size” (700*300) for my single.php.
But WPP doesn’t use the thumbnail I’ve pre-retailed, but create another one from
the large size used in single.php and, obviously, it’s not what I want.
At this
point of my post, I’m not sure of beeing realy understandable, so I’m going to
use an example : Imagine I’ve got a realy nice pic of me at my previous holidays
at the beach. As this pic is realy big, I’ve used PTE to set the thumbnail (175*
175) to be only my face (yeah, quite egocentric isn’t it ?) and the large size(
700*300) to be a smaller version of the entire pic. Yet, WPP doesn’t use the
thumbnail size, but create another one from the large size.. So my question is:
what did I missed ?
* 2- I’ve created a specific thumbnail size in my functions.php files simply called“
wpp_thumb” and have retailed as I did previously a part of my big pic to be the
thumbnail for WPP. I’ve read in another post that the plugin, not used as a widget
but with wpp_get_most_popular() cannot use a specific predefined thumbnail size
and we have to use the wpp_custom_html filter with the get_the_post_thumbnail()
function. However, I’m not comfortable with this and I realy don’t know, even
after having read [this page](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/3.-Filters)
what I’ve to do… Can somebody help me ? And if I use this filter for my thumbnail,
will my other parameters work as if there weren’t any filter ?
This is what
I’m currently using :
* ```
$args = array('header' => 'Articles Populaires',
'header_start' => '',
'header_end' => '
',
'post_type' => 'post',
'limit' => 5,
'thumbnail_width' => 175,
'thumbnail_height' => 175,
'stats_category' => 1,
'title_length' => 25,
'stats_date' => 1,
'stats_date_format' => 'd M Y',
'post_html' => '{thumb}
{category}
{title}
{date}'); wpp_get_mostpopular( $args );
```
* You can see it right here : [http://ouexperience.esy.es/](http://ouexperience.esy.es/)(
not realy finished, many things to do ! But I’ve hosted it to show you, I usualy
run it in local)
* Thank you very much for helping me !
* Laozor
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/)
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* Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
* (@hcabrera)
* [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-a-specific-thumbnail-size/#post-7616978)
* Hi Laozor!
* The filters allow you to use your own markup, so parameters like _stats\_date\
_format_ that are specific to certain functionalities (in this case, the _{date}_
Content Tag) are not used at all.
* Here’s your custom HTML markup using the [wpp_post filter hook](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/3.-Filters#wpp_post):
* ```
function my_custom_single_popular_post( $post_html, $p, $instance ){
$output = '' . get_the_post_thumbnail( $p->id, 'wpp_thumb' ) . '
' . get_the_category( $p->id ) . '
' . $p->title . '
' . date( 'd M Y', strtotime( $p->date ) ) . '';
return $output;
}
add_filter( 'wpp_post', 'my_custom_single_popular_post', 10, 3 );
```
* Thread Starter [laozor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laozor/)
* (@laozor)
* [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-a-specific-thumbnail-size/#post-7616984)
* Hello Hector Cabrera !
* Thank you very much for your help ! I had to make some few changes to the code
you gave me, so I post my final code here.
In particular, I had to add a ‘foreach’
concerning the categories, as the code was only returning the word “Array”..
And I added a substr() for my title length 🙂
* ```
function my_custom_single_popular_post( $post_html, $p, $instance ){
$pp_categories = get_the_category($p->id);
if($pp_categories){
foreach ($pp_categories as $pp_category){
$pp_categoryout = 'name ) ) . '">'.$pp_category->cat_name.'';
}
}
$output = '
'
. get_the_post_thumbnail( $p->id, 'wpp_thumb' ) . '
' . trim($pp_categoryout) .'
'. substr($p->title, 0, 25).' (...)
' . date( 'd M Y', strtotime( $p->date ) ) . '
';
return $output;
}
add_filter( 'wpp_post', 'my_custom_single_popular_post', 10, 3 );
```
* It’s all good now ! Again, thank you very much ! 🙂
* Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
* (@hcabrera)
* [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-a-specific-thumbnail-size/#post-7616988)
* Ah, I forgot about that. Good catch!
* Enjoy the plugin! 🙂
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* Last reply from: [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
* Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-a-specific-thumbnail-size/#post-7616988)
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