Thumbnail size on main blog page

  • Hi.
    How to get the main blog page to call smaller thumbnail files for the masonry view?
    Currently it’s using sizes 1200x— How to get it to call thumbnails say 300x— (i.e. medium)?

    Attempting this to solve problem of slow initial load time due to large amount of posts; can’t use the built in limit feature because of the nature of the site; Trying to get lazy loading working but, as well as this reckon can get away with smaller sized thumbnails giving the most obvious speed improvement.

    Many thanks

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  • Theme Author Anders Norén

    (@anlino)

    Hi @ceol,

    I’ll add a todo for adding a setting for non-retina thumbnails in a future update. Could be a while though, since I’m in the process of updating all of my old themes with Gutenberg support.

    – Anders

    Thread Starter ceol

    (@ceol)

    Thanks @anlino.
    I nearly got this sorted but not quite:

    in functions.php

    // Custom Image Sizes
    add_image_size( ‘hamilton_preview-image’, 1200, 9999 );

    changed size to 800 and then used regenerate thumbnails plugin which halved file sizes while still looking pretty decent (depending on the original image aspect ratio).

    However, monitoring loading activity shows that original 1200 images are being called before the new smaller 800 images.

    It would be great to have a temporary manual fix for this in the meantime as a way of dealing with loading pages with tons of posts in low bandwidth situations?

    Many thanks

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