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I have submitted a a prior question but haven’t received a response so am virtually trying again with more documentation.
1. Menu Item: Portfolio
Displays Perfect Manual Masonry (each photo is a gallery of photos)
QUESTION: This initial page does not display a portrait image correctly. The portrait images are cropped.
Portfolio Items: portrait tag = cropped & small
landscape tag = cropped
portrait & landscape tag = cropped
Please see screen shot #1. HOW WOULD I FIX THIS. Photography is usually in a 3:2 ratio either portrait/landscape orientation. This would be necessary to display correctly.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2yaeuy819qzbyfl/ScreenShot%231.pdf?dl=02. When I select Portfolio from the Main Menu, then click on a specific photo to see the gallery, I am using flexible masonry. There is a large border around the landscape oriented photographs which doesn’t look good. As stated before, photographers usually display in 3:2 ratio so it would be nice to know how to do this in a uniform fashion. Please see screen shot #2
https://www.dropbox.com/s/no76i91qjgu94oo/ScreenShot%232.pdf?dl=03. Select Potfolio (menu is selected), select a specific portfolio item (menu is no longer selected). It should stay highlighted or selected. How would I fix this. Please see screen shot as “Portfolio” menu item is no longer orange.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/no76i91qjgu94oo/ScreenShot%232.pdf?dl=0Well. It has been two days without an answer to my questions. I am not asking you to customize a site especially for me. I am asking you to fix what seems like a bug or some very squirrelly coding. I now have another issue: If you click on a portfolio that has for example 30 items but you only display 12 per page. If you want to scroll through the portfolio, it will only show the 12 items displaying on the page. You need to go back out of the display slide show, click on load more, and then scroll again. This is not correct functionality.
At this point, if I don’t get any answers, I will be forced to find another theme. This is not really that great if the bugs can’t be fixed.
Hi!
refrain from bumping into your own thread, as it pushes it behind in our queue and marks it as answered and then we can’t provide a faster reply to you. By the way we have a weekend as well :).
Use different tickets for different question, as this way different moderators can work on your questions simultaneously and thus you will get a faster reply. More over we need to make sure that the forum is clear and clean, so we moderators don’t get confused and people trying to search for help here are finding what they need.
1.) WordPress is cropping images by default when uploading them and you can control this behavior with a plugin like: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-image-sizes/
If you still need help please send us a precise link where we can inspect the elements in question.
Best regards,
AndyAndy;
My apologies if you think I expect you to answer support questions on the weekend. Your weekend is your weekend.My original question was #607844 on 4/4/16 where I did re-post private login information. The reply to this post actually did not address my original question. When I add private login information to my own post, is that considered bumping into your own thread. I really wasn’t trying to do that.
I reposted #609705 on 4/7/16 hoping to get a fresh start on what I thought was an unanswered/closed issue. By the way, none of these questions were on the weekend :-)
I have found work arounds for some of my issues, such as paging through a portfolio stopping at the number of items loaded. I no longer show only 12 items per page but simply load all items so that it will page through the entire portfolio.
However, the images size for typical photography is a 3:2 ratio in either landscape or portrait orientation. My portrait images are not cropped by WordPress but are indeed cropped by the theme when displayed. I can open the cropped image and it will display properly. I can’t seem to figure this one out. The login information is in support thread #607844.
My remaining issues are cropping of portrait images and actually the responsiveness of the theme on an iphone. When I remove the “view portfolio” or “contact” button from the landing page home image, there is nowhere to go on an iphone.
Thank you and sorry for the confusion.
DianeHey!
please use precise links instead of numbers (like #12313) if you refer to any post in this forum.
Again: can you provide us a link to your site showing the elements in question please? we need to be able to inspect the elements.
Cheers!
AndyHi!
when editing your Masonry element you have chosen “Perfect Manual Masonry” as Size Settings. As you can read in it’s description you need to tag your portfolio items to either “landscape” or “portrait”. You tagged “Alaska” with both, which is wrong. Choose only “landscape”. I have removed “portrait” for you in your backend now.
You are not using the plugin I mentioned to you, so I repeat: WordPress is cropping images by default when uploading them and you can control this behavior with a plugin like: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-image-sizes/
Use this plugin and let us know when you are done. Don’t forget to regenerate your thumbnails afterwards. Clear browser cache and hard refresh in the end.
Regards,
AndyHi. I will try the recommendations and give you an update.
Here is the description of Perfect Manual Masonry: Manually control the height and width of entries by adding either a “landscape” or “portrait” tag when creating the entry. Elements with no such tag use a fixed default size, elements with both tags will display extra large. If I used both tags, why would it be “wrong” as is states in the description that the image would display extra large?
If you click on the cropped image, it will display as the full image. If WordPress was cropping it upon upload, would the full sized image be available for display at all?
OK. Final question and if I can’t get it to work for me…oh well.
If the masonry size is set to 705 x 705 and an image is 705 on the long edge, it sets the short edge to 471 which is the proper 2:3 ration. If an image is portrait orientation (taller, rather than wider), why does it set the long edge to 471 instead of 705. This is what my problem is. The image of the Alaskan totem pole is 705 on the long edge just like the others, but the orientation is different. Is the grid gallery page set so each row has the same height and you cannot mix landscape and portrait orientation?
Also, I re-imported the “oriente of cuba” landscape image with 705 on the long edge, using the plug-in and regenerating the thumbnails. The image is still cropped…unless you open the gallery in which you will see the entire image.
Perhaps this theme is really not for photographers?
Hey!
the plugin I mentioned is the easiest way to get control over image sizes. However, you can check your functions.php for this too:
/* * Register additional image thumbnail sizes * Those thumbnails are generated on image upload! * * If the size of an array was changed after an image was uploaded you either need to re-upload the image * or use the thumbnail regeneration plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/ */ $avia_config['imgSize']['widget'] = array('width'=>36, 'height'=>36); // small preview pics eg sidebar news $avia_config['imgSize']['square'] = array('width'=>180, 'height'=>180); // small image for blogs $avia_config['imgSize']['featured'] = array('width'=>1500, 'height'=>430 ); // images for fullsize pages and fullsize slider $avia_config['imgSize']['extra_large'] = array('width'=>1500, 'height'=>1500 , 'crop' => false); // images for fullscrren slider $avia_config['imgSize']['portfolio'] = array('width'=>495, 'height'=>400 ); // images for portfolio entries (2,3 column) $avia_config['imgSize']['portfolio_small'] = array('width'=>260, 'height'=>185 ); // images for portfolio 4 columns $avia_config['imgSize']['gallery'] = array('width'=>710, 'height'=>575 ); // images for portfolio entries (2,3 column) $avia_config['imgSize']['entry_with_sidebar'] = array('width'=>710, 'height'=>270); // big images for blog and page entries $avia_config['imgSize']['entry_without_sidebar']= array('width'=>1030, 'height'=>360 ); // images for fullsize pages and fullsize slider //overwrite blog and fullwidth image on extra large layouts if(avia_get_option('responsive_layout') == "responsive responsive_large") { $avia_config['imgSize']['gallery'] = array('width'=>845, 'height'=>684 ); // images for portfolio entries (2,3 column) $avia_config['imgSize']['entry_with_sidebar'] = array('width'=>845, 'height'=>321); // big images for blog and page entries $avia_config['imgSize']['entry_without_sidebar']= array('width'=>1210, 'height'=>423 ); // images for fullsize pages and fullsize slider }Adjust the image sizes there as needed.
Best regards,
AndyThank you for the information. I have installed the plugin and am re-exporting larger images from Lightroom to perhaps change the visuals.
I do have several remaining questions regarding the sizing of galleries.
1. From the homepage I have a “galleries” menu item. This is a portfolio masonry set to automatic columns based upon width as this yielded the most predictable behavior. I understand that this uses the “masonry” media setting in the plugin. Would the theme be responsible for the responsiveness of the images between devices once I set this to a larger size?
2. If you click on any of the individual gallery items – you will be taken to the individual portfolio entry. This is also set to automatic. Does this also use the “masonry” setting or a different setting in the plugin?
3. I now page through the images from the individual gallery items where “large” is now set to: 1920 x 1920. Would I need to consider other sizes perhaps for responsiveness or is that taken care of by the theme.
4. If I do not set both of these to automatic, it builds some very strange images, often times doubling or tripling an image until it fits in the size.
Thank you.
Hey!
1.) As far as I get your question: yes.
2.) You can check this by seeing which image size has your image and then look inside your functions.php code (which I posted in my previous post) and see which image size has the same size as your image in question.
3.) Should be taken care by the theme. Let us know if you experience any issues though.
4.) Can you provide us a precise link of this issue? we need to be able to inspect the elements. Also screenshots would help (use imgur.com or dropbox).
Regards,
Andy
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