Same size and ratio for featured images in standard blog/archive view?

[John Stevenson]

Is there a way to crop featured images so that they are the same ratio/size on the standard blog/archive/author/etc. pages? I believe this was done for some of your other themes that I’ve used in the past. My featured images aren’t always the same ratio, so I like to have a more consistent and uniform look.

Thank you in advance for any assistance!

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[Alexander Agnarson]

Hi John!

If you run the regenerate thumbnails plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/ it should turn featured images into the same size.

If this doesn’t work, try installing and activating this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/alx-extensions/ and then run the regen thumbs plugin. Alx Extensions plugin upscales featured images that are too small and then crops them, so small images don’t have a strange size.

[John Stevenson]

I’m using the standard blog layout. It looks like it’s pulling in the blogstreampro-large” thumbnail which is 610×343 pixels. If I wanted to make that larger, would update/add that line to the functions.php in my child theme? Thank you for your help!

[Alexander Agnarson]

You would need to put the whole function in your child theme’s functions.php. With full function, I mean this https://pastebin.com/raw/P69JwFJC

Then you can just edit whatever image sizes you want there, and then run the regenerate thumbnails plugin.

[John Stevenson]

Ok great. I will try that.

On a related note, is there a way to not have the featured image appear at the top of every post?

[Alexander Agnarson]

If you want to remove the featured image from appearing at top of every single post, you would need to edit single.php and remove this from line 27:

<?php the_post_thumbnail('blogstreampro-large'); ?>

[John Stevenson]

Got it. Thanks so much for your help!

[Alexander Agnarson]

Glad I could help!

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