Themekraft/Custom-Community — Issue #66: Slideshow stretch featured image, square thumbnails
Author: sanderbontje
Created: 2011-10-19 12:23:40+00:00
State: open

Not all of our posts have featured images that are wide enough for the slideshow. An heritage from the older theme we used.

At the moment a featured image is shown as-is in the slideshow. It should be possible to automatically enlarge the image to fit the slideshow area, maintaining proportions and centering on the middle section of the image. Perhaps as an option?

The terrible restrictions for the featured image to be of size 756 x 567 and 4:3 ratio while keeping all subject material in the middle horizontal section of the image as specified in the FAQ can then be let go.

Further more, the small thumbnail in the mini-navigation menu in the slideshow could be cropped to a square image so that all images and titles line up nicely. A dedicated slideshow thumb size can be created automatically by the theme using something in functions.php like:

add_image_size( 'cc-slideshow-thumbnail', 50, 50);

Or optionally let the thumbs be removed completely.

Thumbs for existing images can be easily (re-)created using the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin by Viper007Bond.