Guaranteed Image Sizes

The answer to you question can be found here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10722466/how-do-i-force-wordpress-thumbnails-to-stretch-to-fit-if-uploaded-image-has-smal Add this code to your functions.php to strip the hardcoded width and height of the images that are integrated inside WordPress: add_filter( ‘post_thumbnail_html’, ‘remove_thumbnail_dimensions’, 10 ); add_filter( ‘image_send_to_editor’, ‘remove_thumbnail_dimensions’, 10 ); function remove_thumbnail_dimensions( $html ) { $html = preg_replace( ‘/(width|height)=\”\d*\”\s/’, “”, $html ); return $html; … Read more

Category page with gallery for each post

install an image gallery plugin like this one http://wordpress.org/plugins/image-gallery-reloaded/ and have a gallery set in each of your posts, then edit your theme’s category template and have a look at the loop, if it uses the_excerpt() then you have to alter it to the_content(). This way, you will have a gallery list in the category … Read more

Is there a way to target only images within the loop?

That depends. There is the_post_thumbnail which will echo the “featured” image and get_children can grab all attachments. Certain kinds of images aren’t attached though, so you can’t easily get those. Reference http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_post_thumbnail http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_children