[Resolved] Force Crop Blog Page Images

[Charlie]

Howdy howdy!

I’m trying to force crop my images to fit a 1200×500 proportions for my main blog page (and archives). I am using this code:

add_action('after_setup_theme', 'tu_add_image_sizes');
function tu_add_image_sizes() {
    add_image_size( 'large-thumbnail', 1200, 500, true ); // (cropped)
    add_filter( 'generate_page_header_default_size', 'tu_set_image_size' ); // (tell GP to use this size for index pages)
}

function tu_set_image_size() {
    return 'large-thumbnail';
}

Which I got from this forum post: https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/custom-crop-for-blog-index-featured-images/#post-357876.

Doesn’t seem to be working for me as you can see with the “Why taking small steps…” image in the URL I’ll attach. Any ideas?

Oh by the way I have tried using the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin as well.

Thanks much!

[Tom]

Hmm, looks like it should work as long as thumbnails were regenerated.

If you upload a new image, is that image size created in your uploads folder?

[Charlie]

Hey Tom! Thanks, mate.

This is really weird, but it seems to be working now even though I can’t really explain why. I tried it twice just now, once by re-uploading the same featured image that wasn’t working. It continued not working. Hmph.

Then I uploaded a brand new, entirely different featured image and that was cropped perfectly fine. I have no idea why this would be, but maybe it’s sorted? Don’t want to bug you if I can just ignore the problem, but I’d definitely be curious why it’s acting the way it is.

Cheers!

[Tom]

That sounds like the previous thumbnails weren’t regenerated. Which plugin did you use to regenerate?

[Charlie]

Don’t want to link to it if that’s disallowed here, but I used the one called Regenerate Thumbnails by Alex Mills (Viper007Bond).

[Tom]

That’s the good one, it should definitely work. Maybe try regenerating again? Does it show any errors?

[Charlie]

Appreciate it, Tom. I think I might just chalk this up to a faulty/buggy xml import. Everything’s working as it should now. New featured images come in and crop just fine.

GP is amazingly stable so I rarely need your support, but when I do you guys are always the epitome of great service. Really appreciate it.

[Tom]

Always happy to help 🙂 Thank you!

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