Help sought with thumbnail sizing

I’m having trouble producing correctly-sized thumbnails, and am hoping someone can help. (I am using the default thumbnails display option.)

I want to have thumbnails at 150×94 pixels, the same size ratio as my post featured images.

Sometimes the thumbnails produced are the right ratio (using the featured image.jpg), but at other times they are 120×120 stretched to fit (using featuredimage+120×120.jpg).

I have tried variations on adding add_image_size( ‘yarpp-thumbnail’, 150, 150, true ) to the functions.php file of my theme, but each breaks the site.

I have tried editing the line in template_thumbnails.php
$post_thumbnail_html = get_the_post_thumbnail( null, $dimensions[‘size’] );
to
$post_thumbnail_html = get_the_post_thumbnail();
but this results in all the thumbnails being 150×150.

I think I need to either put in fixed dimension of 150×94, or remove the option where it sometimes uses the 120×120 version of the image, but I can’t quite figure out where to do either.

I don’t want to mess with the basic WordPress thumbnail media settings, since all the other thumbs on my site work fine (and, if they are of the featured images, show as 150×94.)

Can anyone help? I have very limited knowledge of php, so idiot-proof advice appreciated.

Many thanks,

John

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