hi Ismael,

apologies, but i’m not following you on this one yet…

by resetting the widget thumbnail size, i assume you mean to take the custom code out of the functions.php file, & remove my custom css. doing this puts the sidebar widget back to its default tiny thumbnail.
i used the plugin & regenerated the thumbnails.

now, the only place i could find this “Preview Image Size” option was in the News Page > Blog block settings (which displays all news posts excerpts & thumbs nicely), and in the Home Page > Blog block settings (which displays only 1 latest post thumb & title). so i changed it in both places to be 300×300 (as there’s no 225×225 option; i figure i can shrink it in css).

i saved this but it did not make any changes anywhere in the site that i could see.
– the sidebar theme-child latest news widget is still teeny-tiny on pages with the sidebar,
– the homepage feature img thankfully that did not change, i have it set for 225×225.

in your message you said that here i’d “be able to select a different thumb size, one that would not affect the widget thumbnail“… BUT, the widget thumb is exactly what i WANT to affect. i’m just trying to make that tiny tiny tiny thumb in the sidebar widgets big, without it affecting OTHER areas of the site (like what i put in the screenshot, how the code changed it but also changed the admin posts page too).

i noticed too, when looking at the source code of the rendered page, the sidebar thumb img tag has all these other “srcset” images in it. what is that all about? why isn’t it just the one size i want it to be?

<img width="36" height="36" 
src="http://thisonesforthegirlsthemusical.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/review-image1-36x36.jpg" class="attachment-widget size-widget wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="
http://thisonesforthegirlsthemusical.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/review-image1-36x36.jpg 36w, 
http://thisonesforthegirlsthemusical.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/review-image1-80x80.jpg 80w, 
http://thisonesforthegirlsthemusical.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/review-image1-180x180.jpg 180w, 
http://thisonesforthegirlsthemusical.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/review-image1-120x120.jpg 120w, 
http://thisonesforthegirlsthemusical.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/review-image1.jpg 225w" 
sizes="(max-width: 36px) 100vw, 36px">

thanks for your time & assistance!

okay, so i spoke too soon…
now when i go to our “Category” pages, the layout like the main news page (Single Auth, small pic) is missing. it’s just titles & excerpts without the side thumbnails.

where do i go to get this layout back for the category pages?
note: these are not “pages” but instead the menu items are pointed directly to the blog categories.

am i gonna have to make all the categories actual pages like i did with the main news page?
thanks.

hi Ismael,
thanks for your reply! apologies for my delay.

i looked in the “Theme Options > Theme Options > And where do you want to display the Blog?” and it was NOT set to my news page. i’m pretty sure i had set it to be so, but i could be wrong (or perhaps i did for the first attempt & forgot for this second). so i just set that & saved.

then i went to the “Theme Options > Blog Layout > Blog Layout” and it is set to the 2nd option (Single Author, small preview pic). i changed it to the 5th options (Use advanced layout editor) per your suggestion, saved, and refreshed the news page & the layout was reset, not how we wanted with the small thumbnails on the side.

then the “duh” moment hit me – i went in to edit the news page, clicked on the blog block to get to ITS settings, & changed the “Blog Style” there to the “Single Author, small pic” option and VIOLA! the blog style is back AND our text above it is now showing.

success.
thank you for your help.
that wasn’t very intuitive – hopefully the developers might consider looking in to that process a bit more in the future.
much appreciate the quick support tho!
✌🏼

Vielen Dank Günter,

Ich habe den Filter in der functions.php im Child-Theme eingebunden und Regenerate Thumbnails drüber laufen lassen und auch neue Uploads gemacht, jedoch ohne Erfolg. Vielleicht ist es ja auch schlecht beschrieben. Ich nutzte die Website als Portfolio für meine Fotografie und würde die Bilder gern mit einer Mindesthöhe von 1024px anzeigen lassen in einer Masonry Galerie.

Meine Website ist: http://www.viewpix.de
Hier ein direktpink zu einem Portfolio: http://viewpix.de/portfolio-item/holi-gaudy-2016/

Viele Grüße Torsten

thought i’d followup with an annotated screenshot…

so, to sum up my questions (#1 being the most important):

1) how can i fix the unexpected resulting consequence in the wp-admin > Posts page that occurred from using the provided code to modify our “latest news widget” display in the sidebars?

2) is there a way to have all the extra image sizes that auto-generate upon upload to only occur if & when needed?

3) i saw code (in this post) that would supposedly stop the generation of unneeded images, BUT, how can i know which ones to safely stop & delete?

thanks.

Thanks for the swift reply! I did try that before but the problem was, I want the text over the top (as seen in my link) but with your suggested method, the first image that opens up is the same as the thumbnail, meaning you see the text twice. Does that make sense? Your method would be perfect if I could make the gallery skip the first image?

Your suggested method can be found half way down this page and you’ll see the issue: https://www.flick.digital/index.php/home-3/

The images were the same size, but just to be on the safe side I re-exported the featured images as squares. Then I added the recommended plug-in. I set the square thumbnail to the exact size of my images and left the “yes to cropping” option on. Then i regenerated the featured images and updated each of the portfolio items. Then I went to the portfolio page and changed the “selected image size” to be “square”. Results are unchanged – bottom row displays correctly as a square, top rows are compressed, and no pad displays between rows (only columns).