Featured Author homepage module doesn't use crop setting

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Featured Author homepage module doesn't use crop setting

1r.orrison
Mar 22, 4:12 am

The Featured Author module on the homepage doesn't use the crop setting from the author page gallery.

For example, David Louis Edelman is currently a featured author, but the image isn't showing his face:


Cropping has been set nicely, and is used on his author page:

2kristilabrie
Mar 22, 7:44 am

I didn't see any when I refreshed a few times, so I'm not sure how prevalent this is, but I've let the developers know.

For the devs: this page https://www.librarything.com/home#books

3r.orrison
Edited: Mar 22, 10:54 am

It's usually easy for me to find one. Sara Zarr wasn't cropped properly on the Featured Author module, I checked her author page and the photo wasn't cropped reasonably there, so I fixed the crop on the author page and checked Featured Authors - the cropping there hadn't changed.
Compare her photo on her author page to this:


Edit: This is the crop setting introduced at https://www.librarything.com/topic/354692#8296046

4knerd.knitter
Mar 22, 12:23 pm

Fixed.