I need help with featured images (sample theme)

[officethug]

I am customizing the Genesis Sample child theme and need some help with images (please!)

Here is what I want to do:
1) Display featured image at the top of a post and on index pages

I got that working using the technique here: http://www.webdesignlah.com/add-single-post-featured-image-genesis-child-theme/ But if there is a better way to do it please let me know

2) Images need to be automatically resized to the correct dimensions

My client is not very technical so I would like her to be able to upload a high-res image as the featured image and have it automatically resized for the appropriate places (featured image, thumbnail, etc.) I have used themes that do this but I have no idea how to set it up.

[Davinder Singh Kainth]

1. This is the recommended method.

2. For newly uploaded images, they will re-size automatically. However, for old images you can install regenerate thumbnails plugin. Run this plugin, it will resize images automatically http://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

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Sunshine PRO genesis theme
Need Genesis help? Davinder @ iGuiding Media | My Blog | Fresh Genesis Themes

[officethug]

Thanks Davinder. When I upload a new featured image it does not re-size the file automatically. It displays the original (high-res) image scaled down to fit the layout. I want to automatically resize the image so that the page isn't loading a large high-res image.

Thanks for your help!

[Davinder Singh Kainth]

If you have properly added new image size code to your theme, it should display small re-sized images.

1. Follow this tutorial - http://wpsites.net/wordpress-admin/how-to-add-custom-image-sizes-in-wordpress/
2. In Genesis Settings, go to content archive and select image size as per requirement (if you are using standard blog loop homepage).

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Sunshine PRO genesis theme
Need Genesis help? Davinder @ iGuiding Media | My Blog | Fresh Genesis Themes

[officethug]

Thanks Davinder, I am so close now!

The resized image is now displaying properly on the Category page! But the post is still displaying the high res image at the top. Any suggestions?

[Davinder Singh Kainth]

Can you share url of page where image is still now displaying correctly?

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Sunshine PRO genesis theme
Need Genesis help? Davinder @ iGuiding Media | My Blog | Fresh Genesis Themes

[officethug]

If you look at this category page you will see that the images have been properly resized:
http://officethug.com/eggs/category/eggs-on-toast/

But the actual post is displaying the high-res image scaled down:
http://officethug.com/eggs/image-test/

I just want the post to use the same image as the category page.

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