Blog Page Issue

[benjiphig]

I’m using the standard setting for my blog.

I’m uploading a 2000px wide image to be used as the blog thumbnail. However it seems that for some reason this is being resized to 970px wide, and then re-upscaled to 1140px to fit the width of the blog. This makes the images an incredibly poor res.

Any idea why this is going on and how to fix this?

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Hi

You’re using version 1.01, we’re now up to 1.8. Please update

– Kyle

[benjiphig]

Thanks.

All updated.

One thing I want to do though is increase the width of the post to around 1000px

How can I do this?

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Make sure you haven’t selected the page as your ‘Posts Page’ in Settings > Reading as that will force the page to display the archive layout

– Kyle

[benjiphig]

Thanks. Realised my error but cheers for letting me know.

The weird upscaling issue still seems to happening though!

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

No problem

[benjiphig]

The weird upscaling issue is still happeing though!

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Ok, you need to be using a child theme, then add this to your functions.php file:

/* POST THUMBNAIL
	================================================== */
	if (!function_exists('sf_post_thumbnail')) { 
		function sf_post_thumbnail($blog_type = "", $fullwidth = "no") {
			
			global $post, $sf_sidebar_config;
			
			$thumb_width = $thumb_height = $video_height = $gallery_size =  $item_figure = '';
				
			if ($blog_type == "mini") {
				if ($sf_sidebar_config == "no-sidebars") {
				$thumb_width = 446;
				$thumb_height = NULL;
				$video_height = 335;
				} else {
				$thumb_width = 370;
				$thumb_height = NULL;
				$video_height = 260;
				}
				$gallery_size = 'thumb-image';
			} else if ($blog_type == "masonry") {
				if ($sf_sidebar_config == "both-sidebars" || $fullwidth == "yes") {
				$item_class = "col-sm-3";
				} else {
				$item_class = "col-sm-4";
				}
				$thumb_width = 480;
				$thumb_height = NULL;
				$video_height = 360;
				$gallery_size = 'thumb-image';
			} else {
				$thumb_width = 970;
				$thumb_height = NULL;
				$video_height = 728;
				$gallery_size = 'blog-image';
			}

And change the bottom ‘970’ width

– Kyle

[benjiphig]

Thanks Kyle.

What would I need to actually make the content of the post page wider too?

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Add this to your custom css:

.content-wrap.col-sm-8.col-sm-offset-2 {
  margin-left: 0;
  width: 100%;
}

– Kyle

[benjiphig]

Hero. Thanks dude.

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

No problem

– Kyle

[benjiphig]

Hey Kyle,

Child theme installed. Deleted everything in the functions.php file and added the code you mentioned, but getting a syntax error.

“Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/boycalle/public_html/cardinal/wp-content/themes/cardinal-child/functions.php on line 77”

Can you help please?

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Will check this for you now

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Please add one more ‘}’ at the end. Looks like I missed it off

– Kyle