Comic resizing issue

[glych]

Hi! First off, thank you for picking up the Wordpress plugin comic archiving torch. Since Comicpress is no longer supported, I tried to install it and crashed my entire site instead. After researching, I starting with a brand new WP install, this time with Easel, I ran into an interesting problem.

My comics come in two different sizes. M-Sa is one size (about 1500X500 px or so) that is easily reduced down to the proper size when I upload the comics. However, my Sunday comics are twice that size (about 1500X1000 px or so) that is being "sized" and cropped down to the previous size, which is cutting off the top and bottom of the comic. I can change my featured image to the larger sized image and it works fine as a feature, but not as a comic. I've deleted the Sunday comic, tried to re-upload, so the problem is somewhere in the sizing.

This is one of the properly loaded comics:



This is how my Sunday comic is loading:



And this is how I WANT it to look (achieved by loading the large comic file into the "featured image" section of the normal WP theme):



There's not much documentation in the way of the readme to help me figure this out nor that many comment sin the code to figure out where the auto-sizing part of the plugin is. I can stumble through PHP, but nowhere near as elegant as you in programming my own... lost and could really use the incite. Thank you again!

-glych

[Frumph]

Let's start at the top.


This theme you chose. It's using the featured image as the "header" image. And you haven't put in the do_actions() as required / necessary for functionality

So what is happening is you're not *really* seeing the comic there, you're seeing the theme take the featured image and use it for the header.

The comic when shown has section areas and navigation and all that.

p.s. the twentyeleven/twentytwelve/twentyten themes are not supported by Comic Easel because of that, you're going to have to choose another theme to use. (sorry)

[glych]

Okay. Let me try to figure out how to get this working with another theme. If I get stuck again, I'll pipe back in here. Thank you.

-A

[glych]

Hi, I'm back... I seem to be doing something wrong. I changed the theme like you requested, and it was working great. My comics were loaded correctly, they sized up correctly, and when I started on a new batch, I ran into this problem.



I had no "upload as feature," icon like I had before.

I tried a series of themes, some with, some without the "feature image," incorporated into the design, but only the ones set up like TwentyEleven and Twenty Twelve designs (the ones you don't suggest) gave me this option.



Am I looking in the wrong spot? Is there a bit of code I'm forgetting to add? I've been scratching head for 2 days trying not to bother you with this by figuring it out myself, and I'm just lost again...

Thank you in advance for you help.

-glych

[Frumph]

Hi Back!

I looked at the theme you are using and it doesn't support "Post-thumbnails"

On a good note, it's very easy to make it support post thumbnails.

In the THEMES function.php add this line:

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add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );


Then save the functions.php and you should have the featured image ability accessible.

[glych]

That did it! Thank you again!

-glych

[Frumph]

Added to FAQs -> Troubleshoot

http://comiceasel.com/faqs/troubleshoot/