newance

Dear author,

Sorry about so many replies on this thread since your last reply. My last two replies were on the same issue, which I seemed to have just found a solution but not sure if the solution is without any averse effects with me lacking in technical backgroud and the whole picture in mind.

I went through the theme files and found the archive.php and content-single.php, then I change the photo size from dt-featured-post-large to dt-featured-post-medium (line 39) and from full to dt-featured-post-medium (line 20) respectively and affter that, the feature photo on top look the same size on every archive page and those smaller ones below look the same size and the right size for the screen, and on single post pages it also won’t look too large , a bit too small but still acceptable.

So if this solution is acceptable, how do I make the changes to my child theme? Another question following this change is : I originally use EWWW Image Optimizer

https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/

to knock down the photo file size since my site uses mainly member generated content and photo files add up quickly. But for the solution I described above to work, I’d have to disable the “resize” function in EWWW Image Optimizer, which can set max width and height on images uploaded to the Media Library. That means the photos now all look good with the theme but the photo sizes can still be pretty big. Any thoughts on that, please? Thank you.

(To the moderator)
I’m not sure why my last reply was deleted since I didn’t see any violation in its content. It would be appreciated if you can let me know what was the reason of removing that reply so i know what i did wrong.

(To the author)
So I’ll tried to rephrase my question: when looking at the plugin you suggested, AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild, I found the dimensions of photos from the theme. which are

dt-highlighted-post (414×279 cropped)
dt-featured-image (556×380 cropped)
dt-featured-post-large (870×600 cropped)
dt-featured-post-medium (410×260 cropped)
dt-featured-post-medium-small (230×150 cropped)
dt-featured-post-small (230×184 cropped)

I tested publishing posts both from backend Admin and from frontend (using WP User Frontend) and included featured images of different sizes in both. When looking at category archive pages, in both scenarios, the feature large photos at the top of the page appeared different sizes depending on the oiginal photos’ sizes, but all those images below it remained the same size. So my conclusion was the theme will resize those smaller photos below the feature large photo but the size of the large feature photos at the top can only be controlled manually. And that’s why you advised I should recommend my members to use 870*600px image when uploading from frontend. Is the conclusion correct?

And is there a way to change the featured large photo size of 870*600px size to a smaller one? Thank you.

Dear Author,

Thank you for the reply. One question here: the 870 x 600 is for the feature post on the top of each category archive page. My site is membership site and will generate tons of these category archive pages (I have 50+ categories). So in order to save resources and minimize file sizes, instead of 870 x 600, can I make it the same size of those images below it but still hold that same top position? I also noticed this 877 x 600 size will also become the feature image size when appearing in each single post (thank you for the reply to my the other thread), which somehow looks a bit too large for the presentation. Thank you.

Forgot to mention I’ve switched to Twenty-Seventeen and a couple other themes, but the problem remained. YouTube videos show up normally in all my single posts and another CPT I have, Event Manager. Thank you.

Hi there,

Thank you for the reply. I have changed the featured-slider.php to 10 and related-posts.php to 9. But I believe I should use child theme so these changes won’t get wiped out when theme gets update. So does the theme have a child theme and how do I add the changes of these two files to child theme’s functions.php?

Another question is I have two custom post types, Event Manager and WP Job Manager. How can I get the Related Posts also show up on them? By the way, I don’t have coding skill. But if I can be provided with some easy to follow directions, I can be pretty good at that.

Thank you.

Best Regards

Hi there,

Yes, it worked. Thank you very nuch. I had another question:

I viewed and commented on various posts when the setting was set on “All Time” then I checked the sliders, they show up and behave properly. But if I immediately changed the setting to “Today”, the sliders disappeared. Then I changed it to “Last Day” and the sliders reappeared.

So the views and comments were made only minutes before I checked the sliders when i switched the setting to “Today”, but the sliders did not reflect those views and comments. So what’s the rule of thumb here?

Thank you.

Best Regards

Hi there,

Thank you for the reply.

My site is still on my pc hard drive. In order to let you see what it looks like, i created a temp brand new clean wordpress installation on a live server. The only plugin I installed was this plugin and I recreated the problem on a page.

But let me first give you the codes I used so you can see if there’re any errors.

[wtpsw_carousel limit=”20″ post_type=”post” view_by=”views” order=”DESC” words_limit=”title” dots=”true” arrows=”true” autoplay=”true” autoplayinterval=”3000″ showdate=”false” slides_to_show=”3″ speed=”300″]

Mind you at this time only the carousel has problem. The other two appears to be working properly. But just in case you need their codes,

[wtpsw_gridbox limit=”15″]
[wtpsw_popular_post showdate=”false” showcontent=”false” limit=”20″]

The page I created is

http://testfly.flywheelsites.com/23-2/

It’s a free service so the host lock the server and you’d need the following to log into their server to be able to see the page

username: flywheel
password: nestnest

On the top of the page is the carousel slider. The problem are:

1. The order is not correct. You can find the correct order (based on views) in the other two below it.

2. The crrousel is not autoplaying at all when it’s supposed to.

I have selected “post” “Jobs” (WP Job Manager), and “Events” (Event Manager) on my local site but even if I uncheck Jobs and Events and kept only post, the same 2 problems remained.

On the demo site, I only have Post and the same 2 problems still appear.

Thank you.

Best Regards

• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by newance.