Hi Jackson,

Unfortunately, we do not consider to adds more sizes for category avatar currently, as for now we do not intend to shows the category avatar as that big in size (that is why it named as avatar as the first place )
However, you can create a ticket under feature request for this

Hi Fadhli,

(that is why it named as avatar as the first place )

You guys named it Avatar and I was just using your terminology. I know avatars are not meant to be big but who defines the size of Avatar? Since avatars are usually small, it doesn't mean it should be that small.

I think I already posted a feature request for this. Like I said your choice of "Avatar" size is too limiting for creativity. Maybe you guys need to change the name to Category Cover Image so you don't think that it should be small as 160px.

Thanks,

Jackson

Thanks Jackson for your input and submit it for feature request

I agree, whilst it's nice to have a tiny little image to associate with categories what i often need is to display nice large images to link through to the posts or header images (just like with blog posts), I'd like to see a similar level of control over category images as we have for post images.

True to that and perhaps rather than calling it a category avatar, we should really call it a category image that can be made up of any size. If you decide to upload 9000x9000, the HTML would format it to it's respective size that needs to be rendered in EasyBlog and it can then be modified using css however the site owner wants.

I guess that would make more sense?

Yeah just loosen up the definitions of the category image as we might like to use them in other ways/places than just a tiny graphic next to posts - for example full-width images on the category listing pages or as blocks to show off the subcategories.

I had to end up manually creating a page with blocks and images on it then manually linking through to each blog category and will need to come back to revise that each time we add/change the blog categories, whilst that seems like something which should be able to be automatically created by Easyblog.

So like with the post covers we can dictate different widths/types of category image in the main config then are able to have these displayed on category pages or modules?

Thanks for seconding Simon.

Mark, can you make that as a Christmas Gift to us? If I'm not mistaken, the post cover has 3 sizes created automatically based on the settings. Categories can use the same code too and I don't think you guys need to code it from scratch.

Thanks,

Jackson

We are actually getting a lot of complaints from customers that our extension creates too many variant for images I am not sure if it is ideal to actually create multiple variants for the category picture as that would lead to another discussion with other customers complaining about disk usage

Yeah I understand it's a balance between the extension being overly heavy (doing too much) and feature-rich. Would the images not only be created if they were actually being used?

Perhaps if you just added in an option, in addition to the category avatar, for a *single* category image, with dimensions specified in the global params and potential to override in relevant modules?

Yeah, in a way this could be created on the fly but it's also tricky when doing things like this. A proper caching mechanism needs to be in place and it needs to be laid out carefully.