mmacfadden

Bluehost support figured it out. I had the wrong Site URL. I had http://domain.com/directory.

It was supposed to be just http://domain.com

I probably had a hard time finding a solution, because I introduced a mistake by changing the Site URL… Hopefully this helps someone else!

I figured it out. See below:

/* Create widgetized sidebars for each course*/
function course_sidebars() {
	$terms = get_terms( 'course' );
	if ( ! empty( $terms ) && ! is_wp_error( $terms ) ){
		foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
			if ( 0 == $term->parent ) {
				register_sidebar( array(
					'name' => $term->name,
					'id' => $term->slug . '-sidebar',
					'description' => 'This is the ' . $term->name . ' widgetized area',
					'before_widget' => '<aside id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
					'after_widget' => '</aside>',
					'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
					'after_title' => '</h3>',
					)
				);
			}
		}
	}
}
add_action( 'init', 'course_sidebars' );

I hope this helps someone some day.

Quick addition. The size for twentyfourteen should actually be 1038 not 1024

I realized, after playing with this plugin, that my error was of the user variety. This plugin does in fact crop the image, but it won’t change the image type that your page or post theme is using.

In other words, just because I registered a new image size that manual crop recognized, my post was still pulling in the default featured image size. Manual crop worked as it should, I just needed to modify my child theme to call in the correct image type.

Thanks for a great plugin.