Showing full image proportions after user uploads an image

When you upload the image, WP generates several image sizes registered to
it. WPUF shows the thumbnail version. If some parts are cutoff, may be it’s
doing a hard crop to manage that size.

If you want to down scale it, I would suggest to do it via CSS. Shouldn’t
be tough.

Thanks but I don’t think CSS helps since the image itself is delivered as a thumbnail via PHP.

But I solved this accidentally since I created a function elsewhere. In your WPUF Pro “Featured Image size”, it displays results from the functions.php if you add something like this:

if ( function_exists( 'add_image_size' ) ) { 
	add_image_size( 'category-thumb', 300, 9999 ); //300 pixels wide (and unlimited height)
	add_image_size( 'homepage-thumb', 220, 180, true ); //(cropped)
}

But one tip for the developers:

It would be great if we could replace the default image with something else a different size if the Post does not have an image if we select “Show Featured Image”.

Is it possible to a bigger image size, maybe for example the wp default medium size?

Hmmm, I just found that I still have a small issue with images. Form the backend and from WPUF, uploading appears fine, but on the frontend, the images are still thumbnails and I can;t seem to fix them. I have tried CSS and changing PHP code, but the actual size appears set on the backend. My meaning is it is not being affected by CSS. Can I send you a link to a sample page so you can take a quick look at it?

Sorry for replying late. But I don’t see any reason why the small image is being set as feature image. WPUF doesn’t do any scaling by it’s own and sets the featured image as it was originally uploaded. Are you printing the image in a smaller version in your theme?

Thanks for your help. For each Post we have 1 featured image and up to 3 other images. So in the WPUF Form I have 2 areas for image uploads: one is the featured image upload and the second is the area to upload the other 3 images. The reason we must use one featured image is because other plugins and themes incorporate a Featured Image without tweaking.

OK, I solved this 🙂 I did something stupid and was not paying attention to my code. In my PHP for that image I had this:

$large_image_url = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id(), array(160,60));

So I changed it to this and it now works fine and shows the full size image (up to 2048 pixels):
$large_image_url = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id(), array(2048,2048));

Glad to know you got it works 🙂

PS: Just wondering are you really allowing users to upload 2048px width & height max images?
Doesn’t it slowing down the site? i mean how do you handle it?

Yes 2048px are fine for us since these open as new windows now and we will soon make them open in a lightbox. These are often high-resolution images that companies want to post, so the originals are available to users. We have a maximum 1MB size too. Most images will not be 2048px but we want to still give users that option~