WordPress post featured image and alignment

  • Resolved willemb2

    (@willemb2)


    6 years, 1 month ago

    I saw a message that MailPoet 3 now would support image alignment. So I’m making a new attempt to migrate our newsletter from v2 to v3.

    Our monthly full newsletter is created for 90% from WordPress posts, some as full post and some as excerpts with “read more” links. Like on the website (Enfold theme) the featured images are thumbnails and they play an important role for the reader to recognize the category and decide whether they need to read the article. In the newsletter the featured images are 150px wide, with titles and text wrapping around it. Screenshot from a part of the newsletter. This looks great on all desktop- and smartphone email clients we could find. Only on smaller phones (sub 5″) you have to hold it horizontally, otherwise the text is too small.

    Now I’m trying with MailPoet 3.11.0. I do get a featured image when I use a WordPress post, but…
    1. Only when I use the excerpt option. When I check full post it disappears. Why oh why ????
    2. The text does not really wrap around the image. It looks like the image and text are being put in separate, fixed width columns. That makes the image way too big and if the (excerpt-) text is a bit longer it looks awkward. I cannot find a way to adjust the column- and image width.
    On smartphones (tested with Outlook for Android and Apple Mail/iOS so far) it does not work at all: the image appears centered above the text.

    Is this the full story behind “we now support image alignment” or am I missing something? I searched the KB https://beta.docs.mailpoet.com/ with terms like “image alignment” and “wrap text”, but I cannot find a description.

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  • Hi Willem,

    The featured images are only displayed when you select the “Excerpt” option. The “Full Post” option will display the post content with its images, but not the featured image. You can add the featured image manually if it’s important for you to have it when displaying also the full post.

    You’re right, the text does not really wrap around the image. The image alignment allows you to set the image on the right or left to the text, and they are, indeed, in two separate columns. We’d suggest you adding spaces to make the image centralized and fit with the text block size.

    All our templates are responsive, that’s why you see the blocks one above the other when checking it on mobile devices.

    Please let us know if you need any further assistance and we will be happy to help you!

    Thread Starter willemb2

    (@willemb2)

    But why, MailPoet, why? Why no featured image for full post, like in MailPoet 2? Why no text wrapping like in MailPoet 2? Why are you so stubborn in keeping these “most frequent asked features” out of MailPoet 3? There are many complaints about it in the review section of this site, but your only response is a confirmation that “this is not possible in MailPoet 3” You don’t even bother to explain why we are not allowed to do this. Is it violating some technical standard? Or an EU regulation?

    I’m a newsletter sender, but of course I’m also receiving many newsletters and most of them have small images aligned left (or alternating left/right) with text wrapped around it. And one of them is like ours created with MailPoet 2, I can tell by the message source.

    We keep our fingers crossed that version 2 keeps working.

    Plugin Author MailPoet

    (@mailpoet)

    Hello Willem, to answer your questions in more detail. You’re right, we don’t explain it enough!

    > Why no featured image for full post, like in MailPoet 2?

    Because many users use one of the images in the body of their post as a featured image as well.

    If MailPoet shows both, they’ll duplicate in this case.

    We decided to only use 1 and enforce it.

    Why enforce it? Because MailPoet is already quite complex and we fear “featuritis”, or bloating our solution with a million options.

    >Why no text wrapping like in MailPoet 2?

    Because image wrapping in some email clients doesn’t work well.

    We had too many complaints about it, so we decided not to support full wrap anymore for the convenience of the majority.

    In fact, we’re one of several emailing solutions to have dropped support for it.

    The reality of email clients: there’s no standards at all in the 20+ email clients available. Don’t forget that there’s mobile too, which is 50% of all opened emails.

    It’s a true minefield, for which we do a pretty good job at avoiding the common pitfalls.

    Let us know if you have more questions!

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