[Plugin: Thumbnail For Excerpts] Thumbnail Size

yes i am having the same problem.

I want my thumbnail images to be a maximum of 100×50 in size, so I need this thumbnail to resize the longest side to fit within these constraints.

as it stands if I set these options within the plugins admin page the width size always overrides the length size, so never stays within the size limits I’ve set.

i.e. I have an image of 10×100 I want it displayed as a thumbnail in excerpts. I’ve set thumbnail image size within admin to 50x100px and it makes this image 50×500 high! so always breaks the size constraints.

need to resize the thumbnail by the longest size, otherwise its useless if your constrained to a limited area to show the thumbnail.

Hope someone can help.

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I could be wrong, but here’s what I think is happening.

This plugin isn’t generating thumbnails, it’s using the thumbnails that wordpress creates when you upload an image (I discovered this because I changed the setting in this plugin to 300×300 and my images came out all pixelated– the reason being that it was scaling a 150×150 image– the default thumbnail size that wordpress generated an image for when I uploaded my images– up to 300×300).

What you need to do if you want your thumbnails a specific size is in WordPress, go to “settings > media” and change the thumbnail size to be the proportions / size you want. Note that this will only affect images that you upload after you change that setting (unless there’s another plug-in that can automatically go through your images and regenerate thumbnails.)

The “Thumbnails for Excerpts” plug-in can scale down that thumbnail to whatever size you want, but it’ll be the same proportions. If it forced your 150×150 thumbnail to 100×50, it’d be all distorted.

Hope this helps.