Comments on: WordPress Excerpt – How to Style It

By: ShibaShake

ShibaShake — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:43:12 +0000

For proper cropping you can set image sizes by going to Settings >> Media.

You can also add additional sizes through PHP.
http://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/wordpress-image-size

By: Marian

Marian — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:26:14 +0000

nice work…
is it possible that the images will be cropped and not being resized?
greets

By: Daniel M

Daniel M — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:03:11 +0000

Hi thanks for the guide you took time to write, I’d like to know how I can change the height of the excerpt??

By: ShibaShake

ShibaShake — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:32:41 +0000

You can use the excerpt_more filter -
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt#Only_in_version_2.9_and_higher_of_WordPress

By: ben

ben — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:25:32 +0000

Hi im just trying to figure out how to remove a “read more” button on specific exeprts, only the ones I choose. any ideas? how do i make the read more dissapear on short exepts?

By: ShibaShake

ShibaShake — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 19:22:06 +0000

Hello Kristo,
I wrote this tutorial some time ago so I don’t remember the exact context. I think it may have to do with browser and theme compatibility. Specifying just one of the parameters, I think, did not work on some of the older browsers or some of the WordPress themes I was experimenting with. In particular, if the img height is pre-specified in CSS, it may not be overridden.

This is my best guess anyway For newer installs I would just use the standard WordPress thumbnail feature that shipped with 2.9.

By: Kristo

Kristo — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:01:29 +0000

Hi, thanks for the nice “Add thumbnail images” function. I found it to be useful.
However, I’m not so sure about necessity of the “resize_image” function. Firstly – it made the page loading much slower, secondly – why not use only the “width” parameter in the image tag (without “height” parameter)?
It resizes images proportionally and doesn’t need any additional functions…

By: ShibaShake

ShibaShake — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:57:34 +0000

Hello Mark,
Yeah when I wrote this article, the Default theme was still Kubrick, I should update it at some point.

I just visited the page above and saw that you have added thumbnails to it. Glad you found a solution.

By: Mark Divers

Mark Divers — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:12:27 +0000

I tried the “Add Thumbnail Images to Your WordPress Excerpt” but could not get it to work. I could not find anything in index.php that said
, but I could in the loop.php file. It occurs in a few places in that file. Hee is the sumary page I want to add thumnails to…

http://randdesertmuseum.com/site/category/johannesburg/johannesburg-mills/

Thanks for any help you can give me! I started with the Twenty Ten theme, this may be the problem.

Mark Divers

By: ShibaShake

ShibaShake — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:22:41 +0000

Yeah sure just test for the image before rendering the div. Something like this -

$image = get_first_image();
if ($image) :
	?>
        
            the_permalink() ? rel="nofollow">">
              $image, get_the_title(), 200, 0); ?>
           
        
	
endif;