Show full image thumbnail

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1. These are two different things:

   How can I set full image thumbnail on category pages

   vs

   Image should be small in dimensions but not been cropped.

   In order to display the full-size image thumbnail, use:

   <?php the_post_thumbnail( 'full' ); ?>
   

   In order to display a box-resized, rather than hard-cropped, image, you need to tell WordPress to box-resize the image rather than hard-crop it, via the add_image_size() call used to create the thumbnail image size..

   • Hard-cropping an image means that WordPress will make the image exactly the size specified by the $width and $height parameters passed to add_image_size().
   • Box-resizing an image means that WordPress will resize the image proportionally, until the longest dimension matches the size specified by $width or $height, as appropriate.

   You define this action in the add_image_size() call in functions.php, like so:

   <?php
   add_image_size( $name, $width, $height, $crop );
   ?>
   

   The fourth parameter, $crop, specifies whether to hard-crop ( true ) or to box-resize ( false ) the image.

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