Hi! I'm showing my recent blog posts on my main page. The current first post "Rundreise um den Grand Canyon" has a featured image. It looks like the full size image is used here. I think it would be better to use a smaller version of the image here, not?
And it looks like this is the case on every blog post!
You can assign a smaller image via the Backend to the featured image and it would simply show there. You will have to resize the image vie the WP native Image Editor .
Thats a possibility but then the featured image in my post is heavily unsharp! IMHO I think that I should be able to set a high resolution image as featured image and that in stuff like the masonry blog layout, I always see a smaller version of the image. Wordpress gives the possibility, so why not use it. It will never be neccesary to use the full resolution image in the blog overview, don't you think?
And one other point why I can't just upload a smaller featured image: My wordpress blog is not new and I've got a bunsh of posts already published. I don't want to edit each and every post to a smaller featured image!
I am sorry but we can not help explain wordpress default features or why wordpress uses big or small featured images. Salient Theme uses standard Wordpress features so a little google search should explain how to use these features of wordpress.
But as war as I know, when you call an image url in a template, you can define, which image-size of an image you want to use. And in my opinion it makes more sense to use a smaller version of the featured image in the masonry blog layout, because the width will be smaller then the width of the featured image in the blogpost itself!
Even for optimizing the page load time, there is no reason to load the full image here and resize it down in html to less then 50% of the original size. If you do that, why not use the already resizes, smaller version instead? That's something you have to do in the template. Wordpress does not load the right image size on it own. You have to tell wordpress in the template, which size to use.
Oh I forgot: All my words are "as far as I know"! ;) I'm not a 100% wordpress developer, but I know some wordpress coding stuff. So perhaps your developers know better than me :)
The recent posts element does serve a smaller version of the featured image but it's true the masonry display does not - your argument is a fair point and i've noted to look into practical ways to do that :)
Hi! I'm showing my recent blog posts on my main page. The current first post "Rundreise um den Grand Canyon" has a featured image. It looks like the full size image is used here. I think it would be better to use a smaller version of the image here, not?
And it looks like this is the case on every blog post!
Hey Niklas!
You can assign a smaller image via the Backend to the featured image and it would simply show there. You will have to resize the image vie the WP native Image Editor .
All the Best,
-T
ThemeNectar Support Team
Thats a possibility but then the featured image in my post is heavily unsharp! IMHO I think that I should be able to set a high resolution image as featured image and that in stuff like the masonry blog layout, I always see a smaller version of the image. Wordpress gives the possibility, so why not use it. It will never be neccesary to use the full resolution image in the blog overview, don't you think?
And one other point why I can't just upload a smaller featured image: My wordpress blog is not new and I've got a bunsh of posts already published. I don't want to edit each and every post to a smaller featured image!
Hey Niklas!
I am sorry but we can not help explain wordpress default features or why wordpress uses big or small featured images. Salient Theme uses standard Wordpress features so a little google search should explain how to use these features of wordpress.
Thanks
ThemeNectar Support Team
But as war as I know, when you call an image url in a template, you can define, which image-size of an image you want to use. And in my opinion it makes more sense to use a smaller version of the featured image in the masonry blog layout, because the width will be smaller then the width of the featured image in the blogpost itself!
Even for optimizing the page load time, there is no reason to load the full image here and resize it down in html to less then 50% of the original size. If you do that, why not use the already resizes, smaller version instead? That's something you have to do in the template. Wordpress does not load the right image size on it own. You have to tell wordpress in the template, which size to use.
Oh I forgot: All my words are "as far as I know"! ;) I'm not a 100% wordpress developer, but I know some wordpress coding stuff. So perhaps your developers know better than me :)
Hey!
The recent posts element does serve a smaller version of the featured image but it's true the masonry display does not - your argument is a fair point and i've noted to look into practical ways to do that :)
Cheers
That's enough for me, thanks :)