Background of titles weird

This looks to me to be the size of the thumbnail issue and it doesn’t seem to be the exact size as the other thumbnails. The ideal way to fix this is to check what the setting of the thumbnail is in the Thumbnails tab and ensure that cropping is on. You’ll need to run Regenerate Thumbnails (or similar plugin) to regenerate these to ensure that you have the correct size.

When done, please could you navigate to the Tools > Contextual Related Posts Tools page and clear the cache? You might need to clear other caches should you have any.

Dear Ajay,
thank you very much for your quick reply. I checked that and it was set to cropped image, even “hard cropped” and I did not change anything in the last two or three years.
I am hesitating to regenerate images – if even necessary in this case – because I am using the plugin “Short Pixel” which would then would reprocess all the thumbnails … and this service is not free… ??

Are you able to bypass ShortPixel in this case? The only painful option you have is to create the sizes manually yourself and upload it to the folder.

Thanks, but no, this is no option, that all makes Short Pixel for these images superfluous and for them there would be no image optimization anymore.
I wished there was a code that forces the background to have a fixed height, dependent of the text, but this seems to be no option.

One option I can think of, if you are okay with skewed images is to use CSS to force the size. You can put this in your theme’s CSS or the plugin’s Styles tab. Set the size of the image as per your settings.

img.crp_thumb {
  width: 200px;
  height: 200px;
}

Thank you very much again for your efforts. I tried, but this did not change anything, even with the !important expression in it.

As a total lay as a coder I think the issue is rooted in the fact that the background is not defined as an overlay over whatever other item/pic exists in the Related Post list item – as now, it is dependent on the size of the thumbnail pic (see also the second item where there is no background at all because the pic is even larger). …But how this could be done in the plugin code is way ahead my knowledge… ??
But even now I very much appreciate your care, this is by far not taken for granted! (If I haven′t already rated the plugin with 5 stars a long time ago (nearly six years ago), I would do that now. ?? )

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by wpprup.