[Support request] Blog Archive and Images

[Paul]

Please excuse a naive and perhaps over expectation on being able customise the look and feel. I am new to blogging and generatepress – and as somebody else wrote in this forum – a recovering Divi user…

In each post I am using an image block (not a featured image) as I want to control the position but also the size and ratios of the image for each post e.g. portrait or landscape, full width or in a left hand column with text to the right.
I want to customise how the archive of posts displays. I know that I can go to Appearance/Customize and change the Archive Featured Image settings.

I found this article which would seem to force the image into a square of a certain size. Would it be possible to do something similar and use % instead of fixed – making sure to maintain the relative width and height of each image?
Having made a smaller image (!) I want to then place the image either above or more likely to the left of the post in the archive listing.

Perhaps I am missing the point of standardisation and the elegance of consistent image size and placement!
Thank you for your thoughts and help, Paul

[Tom]

Hi there,

If you leave the width or height empty, the image will resize proportionally without cropping/forcing it into a fixed square.

Then you can use the alignment to move the featured image above or to the left/right.

Let me know if you need more info 🙂

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