Justin Tadlock

<p>Get the Image is one of the most advanced thumbnail/image scripts ever created for WordPress.</p>
<p>It is used everywhere from small blogs to large, enterprise-level solutions like <a href="http://vip.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress.com VIP</a>.  Get the Image offers something for everybody. Much of the reason for its success is because it uses standard WordPress code and methods for doing what it needs to do, which is to simply grab images.</p>
<p>The plugin was designed to make the process of adding thumbnail, featured, slider, gallery, and other images to your blog much easier, but it’s so much more than that.  It is an image-based representation of your WordPress posts.</p>
<p>This is a highly intuitive script that can grab an image by custom field input, WordPress’ featured image, post attachment, or extracting it from the post’s content.  Plus, a lot more!</p>
<h3>Before using</h3>
<p>Please note that Get the Image requires that you understand and know how to edit your theme’s PHP code, at least to the extent of copying and pasting one line of code.  If you’re not comfortable doing this, it’s best to ask that your theme author integrate the code necessary to support this plugin.</p>
<h3>A little history</h3>
<p>The original plugin was in launched 2008, which means it has several years of solid testing and development behind it.  It was created at a time when WordPress had very little native media support.  At the time, it was mostly used as a “thumbnail” script for magazine-/news-style sites.  But, it has grown into a much more flexible script over the years.</p>
<p>Even with WordPress’ more recent advancements in image management, many users still continue using this plugin because it offers a more robust image script than core WordPress.</p>
<p>The plugin has been downloaded 100,000s of times and is used on millions of sites as part of WordPress theme packages.</p>
<p>Other image plugins have come and gone, but Get the Image has stood the test of time with several years of successful installs and happy users.</p>
<h3>Professional support</h3>
<p>If you need professional plugin support from me, the plugin author, you can join the club at <a href="https://themehybrid.com/club" rel="nofollow ugc">Theme Hybrid</a>, which is a professional WordPress help/support site where I handle support for all my plugins and themes for a community of 75,000+ users (and growing).</p>
<h3>Plugin Development</h3>
<p>If you’re a theme author, plugin author, or just a code hobbyist, you can follow the development of this plugin on its <a href="https://github.com/justintadlock/get-the-image" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a>.</p>
<h3>Donations</h3>
<p>Yes, I do accept donations.  If you want to donate, you can do so from my <a href="https://themehybrid.com/donate" rel="nofollow ugc">donations page</a> or grab me something from my <a href="http://a.co/flUb0ns" rel="nofollow ugc">Amazon Wish List</a>.</p>
<p>I appreciate all donations, no matter the size.  Further development of this plugin is not contingent on donations, but they are always a nice incentive.</p>


Get the Image

Nice plugin, I use it for all of my sites.



Just works

An easy-to-use image script for adding things such as thumbnail, slider, gallery, and feature images.

Fabien Quatravaux

<p>Sometimes, your website design requires to turn pictures in black & white : for example in a gallery display, you can have all thumbnails in grayscale and bring up colors when the mouse is hovering it.<br />
This plugin will make it possible without the need to manualy create the grayscale variant of each picture.</p>
<p>In your theme’s <code>functions.php</code>, instead of using WP <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_image_size" rel="nofollow ugc">add_image_size</a> function, use <code>grayscale_add_image_size('custom_size', xxx, yyy, $crop, $grayscale)</code> (with <code>$crop</code> set to <code>true</code> if you want to crop the image, and <code>$grayscale</code> set to <code>true</code> if you want a grayscale version of the image). Then, you can use <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_post_thumbnail" rel="nofollow ugc">the_post_thumbnail</a> or any thumbnail function to get your grayscale image :</p>
<pre><code>the_post_thumbnail('custom_size-gray')
</code></pre>
<p>A gamma correction is applied automatically to make the black & white pictures look good. From version 1.2, You can tune this gamma correction with the <code>grayscale_gamma_correction</code> filter. Your filter would have to return a float number that will be use as the <code>outputgamma</code> parameter of the <a href="http://php.net/manual/fr/function.imagegammacorrect.php" rel="nofollow ugc">imagegammacorrect</a> function.</p>
<h4>Known bugs</h4>
<ul>
<li>Grayscale images are not generated when the original image size is smaller than the specified thumbnail size.</li>
</ul>


Grayscale

Automatically create grayscale thumbnails for a given image size.

Get the Image vs Grayscale