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In Word Press, how do I scale thumbnails down a percentage in PHP?

Hi, I'm using word press for my blog. The home page calls the pictures from each post to appear as a thumbnail above the text. The thing is...instead of it resizing the picture to a certain percentage and keeping it proportional, it literally sizes it down and then clips the picture to fit 120 x 120...so the picture is not only super small, but totally cut off. I want the picture to be big enough to see and to be proportional...

www.thankdogblog.com

Here is the php code:

<?php

/* sets predefined Post Thumbnail dimensions */
if ( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) ) {
      add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );

      //home.php, index.php, single.php
      add_image_size( 'homepage', 120, 120, true );

      //page image size
      add_image_size( 'pageimage', get_option($shortname.'_thumbnail_width_pages'), get_option($shortname.'_thumbnail_height_pages'), true );

};
/* --------------------------------------------- */

?>

Thanks a ton!!!!

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ThankDog

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I used what he suggested and then found out I gave the wrong code so it didn't work. But because of that, I was able to tweak the code I found to what he said and it worked!

ThankDog

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Hi gwkg...first, thank you for your time. I realized I gave the wrong PHP code that was actually doing the controlling, so when I used what you said it didn't work. However, when I realized there was another php file, I took your guidance and edited the block of coding with better understanding....

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

                                          <?php $thumb = '';
                                                  $width = 350;
                                                  $height = auto;
                                                  $classtext = '';
                                                  $titletext = get_the_title();

                                                  $thumbnail = get_thumbnail($width,$height,$classtext,$titletext,$titletext, true);
                                                  $thumb = $thumbnail["thumb"]; ?>

THANKS!!!!!