Just a random image in wordpress sidebar

[ardyp]

vuud i just love you


only last thing: how can i set a maximun width&height for the images?


many thanks!

[vuud]

vuud i just love you


only last thing: how can i set a maximun width&height for the images?


many thanks!

You can't.   Not that I know of anyway... maybe something via css? 

[ardyp]

it's strange, actually in melissa's blog she setted maximum dimension for the images:

http://www.melissamanske.com/


on my blog the photos are all 400*300... :'(

[vuud]

it's strange, actually in melissa's blog she setted maximum dimension for the images:

http://www.melissamanske.com/


on my blog the photos are all 400*300... :'(

Can you point to where you are seeing this?  I am very interested in how she does it.

[ardyp]

just click the link, on the right there is first "about" and then "Random Photo"


as you can see the thumbs are something like 100*100

[vuud]

just click the link, on the right there is first "about" and then "Random Photo"


as you can see the thumbs are something like 100*100

That's because that is the size of the images... something that gets set in CPG's config.

She has no additional settings on those images

[ardyp]

ok thanks a lot, i m just making my thumbs littler...

[vuud]

ok thanks a lot, i m just making my thumbs littler...

You can set CpmFetch to tell the browser to scale your thumbs smaller or larger...

Basically like setting the height and width on the image tag (but it is not a max setting, it is a make-it-this setting)

[ardyp]

 

and how can i do that?

[vuud]

and how can i do that?

See the imageheight and imagewidth settings on this page
http://cpmfetch.fistfullofcode.com/docs/manual_1.6/ch06s02.html

If you are going to ask me how, then start here:
http://cpmfetch.fistfullofcode.com/docs/manual_1.6/index.html

Read till the end.

[h2ocello]

For those that need help with it, to get the small sized random photo:

How to make your photos in your WordPress sidebar small enough to fit and look nice!
  1. Login to your photo gallery Coppermine Administrator account
  2. Click Config button
  3. Go down to Files & thumbnails settings
  4. Max dimension of a thumbnail:  choose something small that will fit in your sidebar. I have 150
  5. Use dimension ( width or height or Max aspect for thumbnail): Choose Max Aspect
  6. Click Save New Configuration button on the bottom

Note: This will be the size of all of your thumbnails in your album.  If this changed the size of your thumbnails and now your thumbnails look a little 'messed up' you can fix them in Admin Tools. Make all appropriate backups before proceeding though!

How to resize thumbnails so they look normal again
  1. Login to your photo gallery Coppermine Administrator account
  2. Click Admin Tools button
  3. Choose: Update thumbs and/or resized photos (1). AND What should be updated (2): Choose Only thumbnails
  4. Scroll to bottom.  Select All Albums (3). Click Submit (4).
  5. On next page if not all thumbnails are done click button Process more images. Repeat if more images need to be processed.

[h2ocello]

(My last post is the way *I* fix the image size in the WordPress sidebar -- you can also do it though CpmFetch as Vuud said!) 

[ardyp]

Great!

I finally resolved all my problems, i love you all man, many many thanks from Italy!!!!