In most cases, it’s not programmatically possible to alter content on a LightCMS site. That’s not to say that the CMS lacks flexibility, just that some advanced scenarios require careful planning to implement in a way that’s both elegant and functional.

That said, we recently discovered a little gem hiding away on every LightCMS site that helps us remain more agile in our development. It’s a script called ‘ResizeImage.aspx’ and it makes it a snap to reuse a single image across your site in a variety of sizes and formats.

The script is available at http://yoursite.com/ResizeImage.aspx. It has several paramaters:

Examples

The easiest way to learn how to use this trick is to see it in action, so here are a few examples to get you started.

Original image:

Resized to max width of 128px:

Squared off at max width/height of 64px:

Limitations

• The image has to be locally hosted. Remotely linked images will not work.
• Height and/or width must be specified

More info

There’s a post about this on the LightCMS support forums in case you want to ask any more questions about this functionality.

Note: This is not an officially supported feature of LightCMS. As stated in the forum, this functionality could change or be removed at any time. Use at your own risk.