Blog post grid (featured) image problem

  • I recently switched to the OceanWP theme. With my previous theme the Featured image was a certain size (950px x 425px) and so most of my posts have a cropped image of that size for the featured image.

    On my site now, with OceanWP, I have a page for the blog posts, which I edit using Elementor. There is a Section with a Grid of Posts, three columns and five rows. (I think those are all the right terms and the relevant info.)

    For a while everything was fine. I think the Theme automatically filled the thumbnail tile with the featured image and things looked ok.

    Then I screwed something up. I am not sure what. I tried setting new (bigger) default image sizes, regenerated thumbnails, and installed the Smush plugin to optimize images.

    Somewhere in there I seem to have introduced a problem with the thumbnails. Now the ones that have that 950×425 Featured Image have white bars above and below the thumbnail image.

    I was going through every single post – AGAIN – and replacing the Featured Image, when I realized there was some strange behavior: if I just barely resize the browser window, all of those thumbnails suddenly pop into place correctly!

    (In the linked examples, all I did was barely make the browser window smaller (or larger, doesn’t matter).)

    https://nomadicfrog.com/temp/01_problem.png

    https://nomadicfrog.com/temp/02_no_problem.png

    I’ve tried different browsers (Safari, Firefox, Chrome – all on macOS) and I’ve cleared the cache. Not sure if this normal, if it’s something I can fix globally, or if I will still have to go through and reset every single Featured image? It seems like it should be a setting somewhere, but I can’t find it.

    Thanks for your help!

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Thread Starter nomadicfrog

    (@nomadicfrog)

    I guess I should have said “I think the problem started when I did one of those things.”

    It could be that it was there all along and because I was doing so much updating and cleaning up I didn’t notice.

    Hi,

    It looks like the issue is coming from the themisle companion plugin.
    Also, go to Customize > Blog > entry and try to adjust the image size and check.

    Thread Starter nomadicfrog

    (@nomadicfrog)

    Thank you for the very quick response!

    I deactivated the Orbit Fox Companion plugin (not sure when it even got installed – I was experimenting with a Themeisle theme at one point) but that completely removed the grid of posts.

    Apparently that was what I was using to display the posts, and I don’t see an alternative way to display them the same way if I deactivate the plugin.

    At least I learned something about how different plugins affect the editing interface.

    I’m not sure about your second suggestion. As far as I can tell my site doesn’t really use that functionality, as it seems to be separate from the Section / Grid of posts construction that I stumbled upon and used. Nothing I change in that Customize section affects the page that I linked in my original post.

    It seems, though, that my next step is probably to go to the support forum for the Orbit Fox Companion plugin and ask there, unless you have another idea?

    Thanks again!

    Hi,

    Oceanwp theme doesn’t control the designs of the other plugins, Try once coordinate with the concerned plugin support.

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