Instead of simply reusing image which already exists in the post page content, the plugin anticipates that you will want to use large images for your featured images, but to do so intelligently.
Display Featured Image for Genesis allows you to select default, or fallback, Featured Image.
This is optional setting and applied intelligently if your feed is set to output the text, Featured Image will be added to the beginning of your post content as width image. if your feed is set to output only the summary of your content, the Featured image will be added to the beginning of your summary as thumbnail, aligned to the left...
Applies to the page...big-leader the container which holds the leader backstretch image and the post page Title and excerpt or description...featured-image-overlay style appended to the post page title if Move Excerpts option is not selected ...excerpt and.archive-description are styled as unit.
These are the containers for the post page archive taxonomy title and description if Move Excerpts option is selected...featured is appended to the output directly above the post page content...
As of version 3.0.0, most questions support requests have been implemented as options on the settings pages, including setting sitewide preferred image size setting image size per content post type setting preferred fallback images for content types, search results, and 404 pages changing the default hooks priorities the plugin uses for image output..
Height Pixels to Remove setting tells the plugin to subtract that number of pixels from the height of the user's window, regardless of the size of that window.
If you need to control the size of Featured Image output with more attention to the user's screen size, you will want to consider CSS approach instead.
You can use Maximum Height setting, which will affect all screen sizes, or add something like this to your stylesheet, or CSS panel in Customizer..big-leader { max-height 700px } @media screen and {.big-leader { max-height 300px } }.
As of version 3.0.0, you can change the location of the large featured image without code by going to Appearance > Display Featured Image for Genesis, and then the Advanced tab..
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