Custom image size WordPress

Question

I'm building a custom blog listing page for a Wordpress site and trying to use a custom image size. The height of the images should be a hard 300px. All images are taller than this, so not worried about smaller images.

The width I would like to be 500px. This is where I'm having issues. I'm trying to use the Wordpress add_image_size function for this, but I keep getting a crop of exact dimensions.

Example, I use the following code, and it gives me an exact 300x300 pixel image:

add_image_size( 'blog-two', 500, 300);

I've even tried adding the hard crop value to this and not getting the desired result of a 500x300 pixel cropped image.

add_image_size( 'blog-two', 500, 300, true);

Is this function depreciated? Or am I missing something?

Answer 1

Did you add the add_image_size() to your functions.php file, if so your code should function properly?

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