The AHA moments
I tried the suggestions but nothing worked. The problem still remained:
In my blog roll on my Home page, the 2 published posts had random-sized thumbnails as featured images. One image was just too big, so it appeared cropped above its corresponding excerpt. And it had a rectangle shape, next to the appealing square shape of my original post.
I went to my Media on the WordPress dashboard, clicked on the image to edit it, and changed the dimensions to make it smaller. Still, nothing worked. I spent another hour doing a Google search about my WordPress Theme and customizing featured images, and somehow the AHA moment occurred!
I would go to the original image on my computer, edit the image with Paint, scale it to 350 x 350 and save it as a .png file on my computer. Then I would upload it again in Media Library in WordPress and set it as the new featured image.
It still didn't work! And it's amazing how easily the brain wants to throw in the towel and call it quits!
During that moment of utmost frustration, I went back to my dashboard and as I was staring at my post... I see the "Update" button.
Duh! I had forgotten to Update the post. And lo and behold, after updating and visiting my home page, I was looking at my 2 post excerpts having the same size of featured image. Beautiful symmetry achieved.
As a conclusion, changing the dimensions on the image wasn't solving my issue. I needed to change the Pixel dimensions.
Don't give up easily, technical issues can always be solved!
(And imagine, Microsoft was about to withdraw Paint from Windows but it turned out to be so useful to me. Also using it for taking screenshots quickly. Yay for Paint!)
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Just a thing or two that is not done can have the wrong effect.
I always, when faced with this issue, copy the image(s), from the editor and paste it into my word processor. I then make the 'adjustments' and copy and paste it back into the editor.
Great that you found the answer to your question depending on yourself only, sometimes the solution is simpler than we imagine, we assume that solution would be complicated, and later we find it very easy but we don't usually start with the easy options when we encounter any difficulty.
Thanks for your comment Rawan!
That's true, our mind goes to complicated solutions first when the answer can be so simple! I didn't want to ask such a specific question here because I thought it only had to do specifically with my WordPress theme. So I searched on the forums of the theme developers instead :)
I definitely learnt something new that I can apply later on!
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Hello Nicky!
Thank you so much for sharing your AHA Moment! It just feels amazing when we find out how to do by ourselves!
Nicky, you are a true problem solver! Similar things happens to me. The most easiest things doesn't work and I spend hours of trying to find the solution. If I don't find out how to do I do ask a question here at WA and often the answer is actually easyto solve - I just thought it must be more complicated and didn't see the simple answer.
Wish you lots of great moments building your online business!
:-)
Thanks, girl!
Yes these moments are so satisfactory, especially after starting to get those negative "why even bother" feelings but you persevere and finally the problem is solved!
Cheers to problem solving and perseverance, have a great day :)