Guys. It turns out that all the problems that I was having with the featured image dominating the blog feed could be resolved by adding 13 characters of code to the content.php file for the theme. And the problem had nothing to do with your plugin but is likely to do with changes to wordpress featured image and post thumbnail rules.

To take out the featured image in the blog feed and category search results I changed this

<?php if ( ! post_password_required() && ! is_attachment() ) :
				the_post_thumbnail();
			endif; ?>

To this

<?php if ( is_single() && ! post_password_required() && ! is_attachment() ) :
				the_post_thumbnail();
			endif; ?>

Now I can use an excerpt plugin to manage the image as part of the excerpt while maintaining the full size featured image only on individual posts. It’s a great way to tidy up a homepage with lots of people contributing to the site making it easier for readers to scan for posts that are relevant.

Hi Nayem.
I have been testing on localhost running 2012 but when I get some time, early next week, I am going to do a fresh instal and do a systematic test of theme posting without plugin and then with frontend pro to see if I can get a better picture of the problem.

Thanks for getting back to me

Craig

Not a problem Sekander. If there is nothing you can do about it then I will have look at another way to manage it.

Is there any way to stop the plugin from overriding the the image size set in the admin or to prevent it from forcing its way onto the blog-list. I described the problem in the previous comment.

Hi Chris.
Perhaps a big part of the problem I am having is that regardless of the settings > media >image size settings, the image continues to render max post width. I set the large size to 300 but it still renders as 600+. I tried to use Auto Excerpt Everywhere plugin thinking it would control the image size on the home page. While Auto Excerpt Everywhere behaved as expected, [image / excerpt] a copy of the image appears, max width, above the excerpt.

It gives me the impression the the UFP plugin is setting the rules for image inclusion and size.

I am getting so fed up with plugins that require the end user to rewrite code in order for them to meet “realistic” expectations. It stuns me that with all the complex themes that are being built with wordpress that there doesn’t seem to be even one simple theme that allows for straightforward frontend public user submissions.

Frustrated.