Subcategory image is too tiny. How can I change it?

[uapone]

Hi,

I have a catalog with a few categories that have sub categories.

Now, when viewing the category page (front office), I see the thumbnails of the sub category images.

But, the size is too small to my liking, so I thought this should be easy to change in preferences - images.

 

The medium size, as I noticed, is used as the sub category thumb, and all product sidebars (new / viewed etc.)

 

So in the medium image, I set the "apply to category" radio to false and created a new size, and set it to only apply to categories.

 

This does not work. Is there a way to set a different thumbnails size to sub category thumbs and medium product (80x80)?

 

Thanks.

[rseigel]

Have you looked at Preferences > Image?

[musicmaster]

Do you use the default template? If you have an alternative template it may be that some things are hard coded in their Category.tpl template file.

 

Do you use 1.4 or 1.5?

 

Can you look at the source code of your of your webpage and tell us how the link to the images looks like. The fault can be at different levels:

- it may be that the image still points to the old "medium" format

- it may be that the new format has not the right size.

- it may be that it points to the right picture but that the link still contains the "height=80 width=80" attributes.

[uapone]

Yes, I have an alternative template. I'm using 1.4.7.3

In category.tpl template file the subcategories DIV shows:

 

 

<div id="subcategories">

<h3>{l s='Subcategories'}</h3>

<ul class="inline_list">

{foreach from=$subcategories item=subcategory}

<li>

<a href="{$link->getCategoryLink($subcategory.id_category, $subcategory.link_rewrite)|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}" title="{$subcategory.name|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}">

{if $subcategory.id_image}

<img src="{$link->getCatImageLink($subcategory.link_rewrite, $subcategory.id_image, 'medium')}" alt="" width="{$mediumSize.width}" height="{$mediumSize.height}" />

{else}

<img src="{$img_cat_dir}default-medium.jpg" alt="" width="{$mediumSize.width}" height="{$mediumSize.height}" />

{/if}

</a><br />

<a href="{$link->getCategoryLink($subcategory.id_category, $subcategory.link_rewrite)|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}">{$subcategory.name|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}</a>

</li>

{/foreach}

</ul>

<div class="clearblock"></div>

</div>

 

How should I change it?

 

Thanks

[musicmaster]

Can you also have a look at the source code (html-code) of your category pages?

[uapone]

Hi,

under the category page source code I found height="20px" in the img class of all my subcategories images. That might be the problem, right? And how should I change them?

Thank you

[yewster]

Hi,

I have a catalog with a few categories that have sub categories.

Now, when viewing the category page (front office), I see the thumbnails of the sub category images.

But, the size is too small to my liking, so I thought this should be easy to change in preferences - images.

 

The medium size, as I noticed, is used as the sub category thumb, and all product sidebars (new / viewed etc.)

 

So in the medium image, I set the "apply to category" radio to false and created a new size, and set it to only apply to categories.

 

This does not work. Is there a way to set a different thumbnails size to sub category thumbs and medium product (80x80)?

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

You need to edit "CategoryController.php" in the "controllers" directory:

 

Goto "line 142" or find "'mediumSize' => Image::getSize('medium'),"

 

Replace

 

'mediumSize' => Image::getSize('medium'),

 

With

 

'mediumSize' => Image::getSize('

TheNameOfYourNewSize

'),

 

TheNameOfYourNewSize is the name of the new image size you mentioned and created in your post.

[uapone]

Actually, I found the css document under my theme###/cache that control the image size. After I change that, everything is fine now. Thank you for all the help.