THE MOLITOR FORUMS » Topic: controlling the crop of the lead image http://www.themolitor.com/forums/topic/controlling-the-crop-of-the-lead-image THE MOLITOR FORUMS » Topic: controlling the crop of the lead image en-US Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:55:11 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.themolitor.com/forums/search.php THE MOLITOR on "controlling the crop of the lead image" http://www.themolitor.com/forums/topic/controlling-the-crop-of-the-lead-image#post-17452 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:57:04 +0000 THE MOLITOR 17452@http://www.themolitor.com/forums/

Hi there,

Yes. Images that are "attached" to a post/page will appear in the gallery. Images get attached to a specific post/page when they are uploaded from that posts/pages edit screen using the "add media" button.

To avoid this attachment, upload the image from the "media" page (not the post/page edit screen). This way you can still locate the image and use it as a featured image without it being attached and included in the gallery.

I hope that makes sense. Let me know if you need clarification on anything.

Thanks!

Chris

canart on "controlling the crop of the lead image" http://www.themolitor.com/forums/topic/controlling-the-crop-of-the-lead-image#post-17445 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:33:51 +0000 canart 17445@http://www.themolitor.com/forums/

Thank you.

Is there a way to prevent the featured image from being displayed in the Gallery in the sidebar?
I need to figure out a way to prevent there being two versions of the same image in the gallery (cropped feature version, and regular version).

Thanks!

THE MOLITOR on "controlling the crop of the lead image" http://www.themolitor.com/forums/topic/controlling-the-crop-of-the-lead-image#post-17400 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:11:05 +0000 THE MOLITOR 17400@http://www.themolitor.com/forums/

Hi there,

The featured image sizes are controlled in functions.php. You can see the following WordPress code on line 69-73...

//FEATURED IMAGE SUPPORT
add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails', array( 'post','page' ) );
set_post_thumbnail_size( 600, 350, true );
add_image_size( 'slider',900 ,350, true );
add_image_size( 'small',50 ,50, true );

For more info about WordPress featured images and the options available, please review this article: http://tinyurl.com/yavouoz

Thanks!

Chris

canart on "controlling the crop of the lead image" http://www.themolitor.com/forums/topic/controlling-the-crop-of-the-lead-image#post-17388 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:44:34 +0000 canart 17388@http://www.themolitor.com/forums/

When I tried to edit the thumbnail crop in wordpress, I got a message saying "could not set that as the thumbnail." And then the post doesn't show up on the slider, even though it's set to display there. Sometimes the message doesn't pop up, but the image doesn't get cropped either way.

canart on "controlling the crop of the lead image" http://www.themolitor.com/forums/topic/controlling-the-crop-of-the-lead-image#post-17387 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:33:43 +0000 canart 17387@http://www.themolitor.com/forums/

How would one control how the image gets cropped? I know Wordpress lets you apply a specific crop to thumbnail only, but it doesn't seem to be working to make the image work for the slider.

As it is now, we have to manually crop an img file for use on the slider, and then post the full version on the post itself. But then we end up having two versions of the same image in the gallery.