Balance demo theme image settings

[mseledwards]

Hiya 🙂
I'm running the Balance theme on my site (http://heavenandel.com) and I'd like to have the images show up under the title, the same size as they are on the demo theme.

From reading elsewhere here on the forum, I gather that this needs to be 600x200 but where do I need to set it as such in my theme settings? And what should I set as the thumbnail size?

Many thanks in advance for your help,

El

http://heavenandel.com

[AnitaC]

Open up your functions.php file. Look for the area for image settings. Add this in there:

add_image_size( ‘featured’ , 600, 200, TRUE );

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[mseledwards]

Thank you 🙂 I did that but it doesn't seem to have done anything. I checked under the general genesis settings and see that the 600x200 is now listed as a choice for the size of featured image so it has done something, but not what I was hoping it would 🙂

Any ideas what I'm missing? Thanks 🙂

[AnitaC]

Open home.php and look for this:

		genesis_grid_loop( array(
			'features' => 1,
			'feature_image_size' => 0,
			'feature_image_class' => 'align none post-image',
			'feature_content_limit' => 0,
			'grid_image_size' => 'grid',
			'grid_image_class' => 'align none post-image',
			'grid_content_limit' => 0,
			'more' => __( 'Continue reading...', 'genesis' ),
			'posts_per_page' => 5,
		) );

Where it says "0" for feature image size - change the 0 to the word "featured" (but without the quotes I put).

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[AnitaC]

Oh... you might need to put it like this - 'featured'

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[mseledwards]

Thank you so much ... 'featured' did it for the home page.

Not wanting to push my luck but, I was looking for something similar on functions.php (because Balance doesn't appear to have a single.php) because now the images are showing on the home page but not on the single post page but I couldn't see anything that might do it. Any ideas?

[AnitaC]

The Featured Image doesn't automatically show up at the top of the posts or pages. That is something you have to manually do.

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[mseledwards]

Ah, ok, thank you 🙂 I've had themes in the past that, when you set a featured image, they showed up on the post so I wondered if this might be the same. Thanks so much for all you help 🙂

Love your themes 🙂 I almost went with your pretty theme but I needed something responsive.

[AnitaC]

Oh, I haven't created any of the themes. I am just a volunteer moderator for the Community Forum and do custom edits.

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[mseledwards]

Ah, sorry, I saw the 8 in your Twitter handle and though you were the lady from 8 crazy designs. My mistake. 🙂

Thanks again for all you do here - much appreciated.

[jennifergrayeb]

I wanted to re-surface this post, as I too am having image size issues with this theme, both with my featured images in a full size post, along with the teasers (grid).

The default functions.php included this:

/** Add new image sizes */
add_image_size( 'grid', 295, 100, TRUE );
add_image_size( 'portfolio', 300, 200, TRUE );

I added this to the end of that per the conversation above:

add_image_size( ‘featured’ , 600, 200, TRUE );

Yet my featured images still appear whatever size the featured image is set. My understanding was that even if the image I set as "featured" is 900x500 (making up a number), this function would resize it to 600x200. Any ideas?

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