Post thumbnails won't change size - wordpress

I'm listing a lot of products on one page, and untill recently I used dimensions 390px*238px. Now I have to change the dimesions to something else, I updated get_the_post_thumbnail method with new parameters, page reloads and shows everything like I wanted it to be.
But, on next refresh, everything goes back as it were. When I inspect the elements, image that is displayed indeed has class attachment-390x501, but it's width, height and src attributes show 390, 238 and path/to/website/uploads/2012/11/Profile_IS_20180-390x238.jpg.
Is there a way to change my thumbnail dimensions? Here's the code I use currently:
<?php
// previous dimensions were 390x238
echo get_the_post_thumbnail($product->ID, array(390,501));
?>

You can set the size of the thumbnails by adding a line to your functions.php file and then display the new image size.
Add this to functions.php, you can change the numbers if you need to as that is the dimensions. Also, you can repeat this line as many times as you'd like to set different size thumbnails, just change new_custom_size to a unique name for each new size.
add_image_size( 'new_custom_size', 390, 501, true );
Then display your featured image with this:
<?php the_post_thumbnail('new_custom_size'); ?>
You will need to regenerate your thumbnails once you set the size in the functions.php file and before you display it on the page/post. I highly recommend the Renegerate Thumbnails plugin for this: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

use add_image_size and rebuild thumbnails

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How to Fix Common Image Issues in WordPress

I am learning to develop WordPress theme and I am unable to find out how to align images, resize or crop them, or display them in a gallery format.
Image Alignment
CSS handles the alignments of images. When a user uploads an image and selects how their image will be aligned, WordPress simply adds a class based on the user's selected alignment (e.g. alignleft, alignright, aligncenter, etc.)
A complete list of such WordPress generated classes can be found here in WordPress codex.
Resize and Crop
It is recommended to use the default image sizes and manipulate the images with CSS, so that the site doesn't generate additional images unnecessarily and thus increase the size of the WordPress folders.
However, if you do need to resize or crop images when they're uploaded, as a theme developer, you can use the add_image_size() function in your theme's functions.php file.
Here are the parameters that this function takes:
add_image_size( string $name, int $width, int $height, bool|array $crop = false )
Here's an example use of the function:
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Gallery
To show the images in a gallery format, you either need to create a custom gallery view using css and js (or use one of the gallery css/js plugins), or use the default WordPress gallery shortcode.
An example usage of the shortcode in the WYSIWYG editor or the block editor (or even page builders)
[gallery ids="123,345,456,567"]
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I'm making a child theme to the Twentyfifteen theme in wordpress. The theme has a function in it's functions.php that I wan't to remove:
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If you do not want to support thumbnails (now called featured images), then add the following to your functions.php:
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Hi I just started today on creating my first Wordpress Theme and I am trying to create a featured Image for each post.Aldo I have managed to acomplish that it seems that the sizes I am giving it are not taking effect.Here is my code:
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}
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}
It seems that my featured images are not always set to the same size.For example if the image is smaller then what size I set it will remain the same , for big images the width is the same but for some the height is different.
What am I doing wrong here?
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From the codex:
This feature must be called before the init hook is fired. That means
it needs to be placed directly into functions.php or within a function
attached to the 'after_setup_theme' hook. For custom post types, you
can also add post thumbnails using the register_post_type function as
well.
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