Cropped thumbnails: I thought it was a common, simple procedure but I was wrong
August 9, 2010 4:37 PM Subscribe
How do you make a gallery of thumbnail images which are cropped out of a section of the image?
They are everywhere. How do you make a gallery of thumbnail images which are cropped out of a section of the image? Like so (at the bottom). And not like so.
The thumbnails need to be uniformly sized but not stretched. I need to do this without having access to the server I'm uploading the gallery to -- I can't install any scripts.
They are everywhere. How do you make a gallery of thumbnail images which are cropped out of a section of the image? Like so (at the bottom). And not like so.
The thumbnails need to be uniformly sized but not stretched. I need to do this without having access to the server I'm uploading the gallery to -- I can't install any scripts.
Response by poster: Actually it's just simple Wordpress.com and I think they used to be able to do this before. But now for the life of me I can't figure out how to how to do it with Wordpress 3.0. I seem to remember that the default Kubrick theme did this. The first actually is a Wordpress gallery, just not the kind I need.
Re: ImageMagick, unfortunately I'm not good with CLI' but if it's my last resort...
posted by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious at 5:00 PM on August 9, 2010
Re: ImageMagick, unfortunately I'm not good with CLI' but if it's my last resort...
posted by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious at 5:00 PM on August 9, 2010
You should be able to do this with the standard WP gallery just by giving a height and a width to the thumbnails with CSS.
I've always hosted my own sites so I'm not sure about getting around wordpress.com limitations, but if you have access to the "Settings" menu on the dashboard, just put in height and width values for the thumbnails and check the box for "crop to exact dimensions".
(If that's not do-able, put up a link to the page, I bet there's a workaround . . . )
posted by ella wren at 5:37 PM on August 9, 2010
I've always hosted my own sites so I'm not sure about getting around wordpress.com limitations, but if you have access to the "Settings" menu on the dashboard, just put in height and width values for the thumbnails and check the box for "crop to exact dimensions".
(If that's not do-able, put up a link to the page, I bet there's a workaround . . . )
posted by ella wren at 5:37 PM on August 9, 2010
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Would help to know what is available on your server - ImageMagick perhaps?
posted by wongcorgi at 4:47 PM on August 9, 2010