Feature Image Difference Sizes on Main Page and on Archives

[BloggerDave]

Hi, my blog is

https://www.dsoemarko.us/christian/

If you go to the main/landing page, the featured images are shown in thumbnail size (what I want), but if you click on the Archives (any month), the featured images are shown in large or full size.

I believe the attribute to change is “FI Size – Excerpts” because I can change other attributes related to FI and Excerpts (like location, alignment, hide/not hide). However, the “FI Size – Excerpts” doesn’t seem to change anything. No matter what I change it to, the main page always display thumbnail size, but the archives always show full/large size.

What do I have to change so that Archives will also display thumbnail size?

[BloggerDave]

PS: I also manage another site: https://notbreadalone.org/

But on this site, the sizes of featured images work as expected. They both show as thumbnail size on the main page as well as on the archives page.

Strange.

 

[scrambler]

I think Archive page take the Full post setting for the Featured Image.

Try changing the Feature image size in the Full post settings.

[BloggerDave]

<< I think Archive page take the Full post setting for the Featured Image. >>

That isn’t exactly it. There is an option to use Full post for Archive, but I didn’t use it, so my Archive is still showing excerpt.

If I check the option of “Use full post for Archive” and turn on “Do not hide” for full-post feature image, then the feature images will be shown, but still with full/large size.

So just now I checked “Full post for archive” but “turn off on all device” for full-post feature image, and it can be a workaround because it is showing full post text (instead of excerpt), and the small image is actually from the text itself.

So something is still not right.

[scrambler]

It is working for me.

If I uncheck the option “use full post for archive ” so the archive shows excerpts, and if I set the Featured Image Excerpt post size to thumbnail, the archive shows thumbnail.

You may have something interfering withe the theme.

Two things to check.

1. Make sure you are not using any optimizer of CSS and JS. Weaver already optimizes its js and CSS, so using these plugins will break the theme. If you have to use them for something else, make sure to exclude all theme files from the optimization. But as a test start by deactivating them.
2. Try temporarily deactivating ALL non weaver plugins, if it works then, reactivate one by one to find the culprit.

And right now, your monthly archive page are showing thumbnail featured images

[BloggerDave]

Hi Scrambler,

My archive page were showing thumbnail featured images because I did something unusual: I checked the “use full post in archives” but “hide feature images for full post.”

But I do want to use excerpts because my excerpts are slightly different from the actual posts.  If I uncheck “use full post in archive,” then the feature images become large again even though it is set to thumbnail.

This is how my archive looks right now:

https://www.dsoemarko.us/christian/?m=201410

I did what you suggested, disable all non Weaver plugins, but it is still the same.

Interestingly, I have another site which I use the same latest verison of WP and latest version of Xtreme, but the archive are showing correct feature image size.

This is the archive page of the other site:

https://notbreadalone.org/?m=201912

 

[scrambler]

OK, so here is what is going on, even if I am noy sure why.

The featured image is set to thumbnail (150px), but there is an inline CSS rules that says width:40% and that grows it back up.

So we need to find out where that inline CSS comes from that sets the width at 40%….

 

[BloggerDave]

Thanks for the information. With that, I was able to check more.

In the setup for post, there is an option for “FI Width, Excerpts” but it is only available for Xtreme Plus (so I cannot change it). I think the default in the past was probably 0, but now it defaults to 40. That is probably how we get the CSS rule of width:40%.

The reason I think so is because I downloaded the theme related current setting (the wxt file), and I found “post_excerpt_fi_width” in it. Comparing my two sites, I found this:

the website with correct size feature images on archive has

“post_excerpt_fi_width”;s:1:”0″;

whereas the website with incorrect size feature images on archive has

“post_excerpt_fi_width”;s:2:”40“;

If that is indeed the problem, the question now is how I can turn this setting to 0. I thought about modifying the wxt file and upload it, but the setup page says “Note: Any Weaver Xtreme Plus settings will not be restored for Weaver Xtreme Free version,” so I don’t think it will work.

Any suggestion?

(PS: I also think if an option is only available in paid version, the default for the free version is set to not using it.)

[scrambler]

This reply has been accepted as the best answer.

The default is probably not 40% because I do not have that.

SO modifying the wxt file and loading it may actually fix the issue. worth a try.

 

[BloggerDave]

It works!  😀

Example from the new archive page (exactly how I want it):

https://www.dsoemarko.us/christian/?m=201610

 

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