{"id":9025,"date":"2015-01-01T17:58:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T22:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jbaker.info\/?p=7130"},"modified":"2015-01-01T17:58:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T22:58:31","slug":"limitations-with-wordpress-media-gallery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jbaker.info\/demo05\/limitations-with-wordpress-media-gallery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thumbnail Limitations in WordPress Media Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress is a great platform. It&#8217;s really amazing in many, many ways. And the new Media Gallery features make working with photos a lot easier.<\/p>\n<p>But working with thmbnails can be difficult. When using the Super List Posts plugin, thumbnail images work best when you turn on the &#8216;Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions&#8217; settings.<\/p>\n<h3>Use Square Thumbnails<\/h3>\n<p>In your WordPress Admin Panel, go to Settings > Media and check the &#8216;Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions&#8217; box.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jbaker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/setting_media_size.jpg\" alt=\"setting_media_size\" style=\"border:1px solid #ccc;\" width=\"705\" height=\"189\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jbaker.info\/demo05\/wp-content\/uploads\/setting_media_size.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.jbaker.info\/demo05\/wp-content\/uploads\/setting_media_size-300x80.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/>\n<h3>Use this plugin to resize your images if necessary:<\/h3>\n<p>When you make changes on your WordPress Media Settings page it only will apply to any new images you add in the future.<\/p>\n<p>If you make changes and want these changes to apply to your old images you&#8217;ll have to use a plugin to rebuild your photos and thumbnails. This is the plugin I use. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/ajax-thumbnail-rebuild\/\">WordPress \u203a AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild \u00ab WordPress Plugins<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Why Do I Want To Do This?<\/h3>\n<p>Using a square thumbnail and standard image sizes will give your site a more professional and consistent look. It will also allow you to make full use of the Super List Posts plugin when displaying thumbnails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress is a great platform. It&#8217;s really amazing in many, many ways. And the new Media Gallery features make working with photos a lot easier. But working with thmbnails can be difficult. When using the Super List Posts plugin, thumbnail images work best when you turn on the &#8216;Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions&#8217; settings. Use&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jbaker.info\/demo05\/limitations-with-wordpress-media-gallery-2\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Thumbnail Limitations in WordPress Media Gallery\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-super-list-posts","category-unvetted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jbaker.info\/demo05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jbaker.info\/demo05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jbaker.info\/demo05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbaker.info\/demo05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbaker.info\/demo05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbaker.info\/demo05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbaker.info\/demo05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jbaker.info\/demo05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbaker.info\/demo05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbaker.info\/demo05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}