Comments on: WordPress Theme Tip: Force an Image Size

By: Kael B

Kael B — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:51:57 +0000

Thanks for this, very useful.

Is there any control of the uploaded image like timthumb (zoom and image quality) for example?

I see Matt Brett has tried this: http://mattbrett.com/workshop/2010/wordpress-post-thumbnails-revisited/

Maybe a little more server hungry dynamically resizing but cool all the same. I know the add the wordpress code adds 2 queries per image so probably not much more with timthumb I guess.

Thanks

By: Otto

Otto — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:22:51 +0000

This may be a post thumbnail specific issue: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13725

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:21:37 +0000

Yeah, that’s what I thought too.. but it doesn’t seem to be working in 2.9.2. Maybe in version 3.0?

By: Otto

Otto — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:18:00 +0000

Add the fourth parameter of “true”. That parameter is optional and defaults to false.

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:17:10 +0000

Thanks this works great (from Mark's post): set_post_thumbnail_size( 50, 50, true ); // Normal post thumbnails add_image_size( 'single-post-thumbnail', 400, 9999 ); // Permalink thumbnail size But it doesn't look like add_image_size enables us to set a "hard-crop" for additional sizes..?

By: nwalsh

nwalsh — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:08:21 +0000

Yeah, Mark goes into post thumbnails a bit more here

By: Otto

Otto — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:07:11 +0000

Not really following you there. Post thumbnails have their own size already, Defining additional sizes doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

Edit: Oh, yes, I see it now. Mark’s post covers that use of it nicely.

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:02:44 +0000

Sweet tip – thanks for sharing!

Question: Does this work for post-thumbnails?

I know we can set their default size, but is it also possible to specify alternate/additional sizes?

By: Otto

Otto — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:24:09 +0000

The URL field to their twitter profile is intentional. I used to use their URL field. People complained.

The fake email is unavoidable. Twitter has no way to get a real email. I’ve thought about figuring out a way to prevent subscriptions on that, but haven’t gotten around to it yet.

By: scribu

scribu — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:21:41 +0000

PS: Relating to the simple twitter connect:

1. It would be nice if the URL field would be populated with the URL on my twitter profile (as opposed to my twitter profile URL)

2. The Notify me of followup comments is useless, since the email field is populated with a fake address.