[Plugin: Meteor Slides] DIfferent Dimensions per slideshow

Hi Jacob, you can use metadata to resize specific slideshows. Check out this post for more info.

Alternatively, you could add additional post thumbnail sizes to your theme’s functions.php file and create a custom slideshow loop for that size if you need more flexibility.

Very cool. Only problem is that the aspect ratio has to be different. Same width, different height. The images I upload are the correct dimensions, but get overriden by the the_post_thumbnail(‘featured-slide’) function, I’m assuming. Is there any way around this?

Do I need to copy a function from the plugin dir to edit in my functions.php? If so, which one?

Thanks for the quick response. Loving the plugin and using it for most of my client sites.

-J

Multiple sizes with the same ratio are easiest, but different ratios are doable depending on the sizes.

What are the dimensions of the two sizes? If they are the same width but one is taller, I’d set the slideshow settings to match the dimensions of the tallest slideshow. Then the larger slides won’t be cropped, and slides that are smaller than the slideshow dimensions should be unchanged.

Only need to edit your functions.php if you don’t want the smaller size to be shrunk from the larger. Creating a second size would be a higher quality for the slides. But it doesn’t sound like you need to shrink any slides, just set the height of certain slideshows to be shorter.