I can not do that images are displayed with more than 200px high.

Hi, make sure you upload the slide images after setting the slideshow dimensions. To get the best quality, size the slide images to exactly the same size as the slideshow dimensions in an image editor, then upload them to the slide posts.

Same problem here ??

And your advice doesn’t help: “make sure you upload the slide images after setting the slideshow dimensions”

Please code it more foolproof, thanks!

@tanganjika Can you post a link? Did you set the slideshow dimensions before uploading your slide images?

Also, you can regenerate the slide image size by using Regenerate Thumbnails.

Dear Josh,

At first let me thank you for your handy plug-in. I use it on several sites, but for the first time I don’t grasp what it it doing!

This page here is very simple:

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[meteor_slideshow metadata="width: 400, height: 400, align: 'center', random: 1"]

[meteor_slideshow]
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The metadata won’t resize anything, nor does setting “Slide Height” in the Settings.
Thumbnails are displayed correctly everywhere, hence I don’t know how regeneration can benefit.

Cheers, mate!

@tanganjika The slide image sizes need to be regenerated because the slideshow dimensions were changed after uploading the slide images. The slide image are sized when they are uploaded, so if the slideshow size has changed, you need to reupload the slide images or regenerate the image sizes.

Thumbnails are fine elsewhere because you haven’t changed the size of those thumbnails. Here is the original image you uploaded:
https://kukutrust.org/website/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/t2.jpg

And the cropped version that is currently being loaded:
https://kukutrust.org/website/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/t2-400×200.jpg

Remove that slide image and re-upload it and you should see it sized correctly.

Thanks Josh,

I start to grasp where the problem really is — and how to fix it!

Just a further question: what will happen, if I don’t set a default picture size in the Meteor-Settings, and thereafter upload the images? They will just be stored in the default WordPress sizes — right?

Thereafter I could define my slideshow according to the original picture size by setting it in the metadata=”width: 400, height: 400″

This would leave me the opportunity to use a 2nd slideshow with different pic-size…

?? Cheers

They will always have slide image size, the slideshow dimensions have default values and those will be used.

When you upload an image to WordPress multiple versions are generated at different sizes, WordPress creates thumbnails, small, medium, and large versions. And your theme may generate featured images sizes, as well as plugins such as Meteor Slides.

However, in Meteor Slides, the slide image size is set based on the slideshow dimensions and that version is what is loaded in the slideshows, it doesn’t load the thumbnail, small images, etc.

Thanks, Josh!

You’re welcome!