How to scale up featured post thumbnail?

You can use the native WordPress image_resize function to scale up images. WordPress provides a hook called “image_resize_dimensions” which you can use to overwrite the default cropping settings. Here is a modified function which will support scaling up: function image_crop_dimensions($default, $orig_w, $orig_h, $new_w, $new_h, $crop){ if ( !$crop ) return null; // let the wordpress … Read more

Get the first image from post content (eg.: hotlinked images)

If you want display an image that is inserted into your content (a hotlinked image, for example), you must use a function like this (source): add in functions.php: function catch_that_image() { global $post, $posts; $first_img = ”; ob_start(); ob_end_clean(); $output = preg_match_all(‘/<img.+src=[\'”]([^\'”]+)[\'”].*>/i’, $post->post_content, $matches); $first_img = $matches [1] [0]; if(empty($first_img)){ //Defines a default image $first_img … Read more

Generate Thumbnails only for Featured Images

This function will generate an image by temporarily registering an image size, generating the image (if necessary) and the removing the size so new images will not be created in that size. function lazy_image_size($image_id, $width, $height, $crop) { // Temporarily create an image size $size_id = ‘lazy_’ . $width . ‘x’ .$height . ‘_’ . … Read more

Automatically replace original uploaded image with large image size

Add this to the functions.php file in the theme folder. It replaces the original image with the large image set in settings. You might want to setup a new image format and use that as the new original size though. function replace_uploaded_image($image_data) { // if there is no large image : return if (!isset($image_data[‘sizes’][‘large’])) return … Read more

Add image size if page template

This has always been a bugbear for me – the lack of on-demand image sizing, and the subsequent number of files you can end up with if you have lots of sizes! I can see the logic behind your efforts – the trouble is, add_image_size only truly comes into play at point-of-upload. As such, is_page_template(..) … Read more