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Changing featured image size for posts

By Yan White, 6 years ago. Last reply by Yan White, 6 years ago.

Lots of threads about this one, but it isn’t working for me.

I added Simple Image Sizes and regenerated the thumbnails, but no change.
I also set the post_thumbnail_size there to be 600×300, but that made not difference either.

The UI for all this is a bit unclear.
Shouldnt it be possible to specify which image size name you wish to use as the default for blog posts?

Also, when you add the featured image there are no options for sizes to choose from.
That would be fine if it defaulted to what you specified in Simple Image Sizes but it doesn’t.

I added an image size in functions.php

add_image_size( 'events_slim', 600, 300, true);

which shows up in the Simple image Sizes UI, but it’s not clear how or where to override the north theme featured image settings.

Lots of threads refer to a setting for large or small in the customizer, but north doesnt show that.

Another thing I noticed is that after updating plugins recently, all the Livemesh modules disappeared from the widget options.
I will chase that issue with them, but can confirm it was working and has affected several sites which use those modules.

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  1. 6 years, 2 months ago SiteOrigin
    Hi, I Work Here

    Hi Yan

    If you’d like to specify which thumbnails are used by the theme you can use this entire function in your child theme:

    https://github.com/siteorigin/siteorigin-north/blob/develop/inc/template-tags.php#L472-L484

    You can change lines 477 to 482 and insert your own featured image there, for example:

    the_post_thumbnail( '720x480-crop' );

    Hope that helps.

  2. 6 years, 2 months ago Yan White

    That's perfect, thank you!

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