Hi -

I'm pretty, pretty sure that there is an option somewhere to enter the path to the default-thumbnail which yould be displayed in those cases where no "post thumbnail" has been set. I know that because my installation is set up to do exactly that. But now I would like to change that path. Where is that? I thought it must be somewhere in Atahualpa. I did not modify the functions.php for this...

Also I tried to use the "Crop Post Thumbnails" option in Atahualpa. What I want to achieve is to have a uniform width x height of 300 x 200px and for all my excerpt images (which will be the post thumbnails). But entering these values on the Atahualpa "Post Thumbnails"-options page and, of course, turning on "Crop Post Thumbnails" does not achieve that. What happens is that the thumbnails outside of the 2:3 ratio will just be scaled so that ONE dimension fits the target size - no cropping.

I am using Ata 3.5.3, WP 3.0.4

To have a default thumbnail I think you may need to use a plugin. As for the size issue there is an interaction of the Atahualpa thumbnail setting and the WordPress Settings>Media settings. After changing the size in the Setting>Media you may have to use a plugin to regenerate the thumbnails.

Thanks for your reply!

Originally Posted by lmilesw

To have a default thumbnail I think you may need to use a plugin.

Are you totally sure? As I said, I already have a default thumbnail and I don't use a plugin for that. I do remember that I set this up after the release of WP 3.0 last summer, but I have no clue how I did it. It definitely is no modification of the WP code since it survived all the updates and I am, as I stated, quite sure that I did not modify the Ata functions.phph either (at least i can't find any code or path there related to this).

Originally Posted by lmilesw

As for the size issue there is an interaction of the Atahualpa thumbnail setting and the WordPress Settings>Media settings. After changing the size in the Setting>Media you may have to use a plugin to regenerate the thumbnails.

OK, I changed that but still get the same result.

Any more ideas?

I cannot think of a theme setting for path to default thumbnail. After you changed Media settings did you regenerate the thumbnails?

Originally Posted by lmilesw

I cannot think of a theme setting for path to default thumbnail.

OK, maybe I AM imagining things and did solve this another strange way.. But it sure would be cool to have a plugin that automatically sets up default post thumbnails.

Originally Posted by lmilesw

After you changed Media settings did you regenerate the thumbnails?

I did, but it seems there was a hiccup. I now regenerated them for the second time and it finally works.

Thanks a lot, your support is much appreciated!