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.

Mizuho Ogino

<p>By uploading a PDF attachment, this plugin convert the cover page to jpeg and attach it as a post thumbnail file. It also allows displaying a thumbnail icon and inserting PDF link with a cover image into the editor.</p>
<h4>Available only for WordPress 4.0+, also only on the server which  ImageMagick and GhostScript are installed.</h4>
<p>This plugin hooks to the media editor and generates the first page image of PDF by using ImageMagick with GhostScript. It requires no setup, just activate the plugin via the admin install page. Allow to set a PDF as an image.</p>
<h4>How it works</h4>
<p>This Plugin replaces and extends the following features.</p>
<ul>
<li>Generate cover image of PDF by using ImageMagick. Generated Image has different size variations and is attached to PDF.</li>
<li>Register Generated Image as Featured Image (post-thumbnail) of PDF.</li>
<li>Display Generated Image as icon instead of Mime-type Icon in Admin Page.</li>
<li>Hide Generated Image file itself in Media Library. (v1.2 or later)</li>
<li>Replace link text with JPG when inserting PDF to Text Editor.</li>
<li>Delete Generated Image when deleting PDF from Media Library.</li>
<li>Allow to manage and output Generated Image and PDF on manually in template file. (see Other Notes.)</li>
<li>Allow to set PDF as Featured Image and to use functions in the same way as image file. (v1.2 or later, see Other Notes.)</li>
<li>Allow to control maximum size of Generated Image and other default settings in Plugin Page. (v1.3.4 or later)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Generated Items</h4>
<p>A generated image file is registered as post children of a PDF file and it has different size variations. Files build a tree like below.</p>
<ul>
<li>my-file.pdf (Your PDF)
<ul>
<li>my-file-pdf.jpg (Generated Cover Image of Your PDF)
<ul>
<li>my-file-pdf-1024×768.jpg (Large Size)</li>
<li>my-file-pdf-300×225.jpg (Medium Size)</li>
<li>my-file-pdf-150×150.jpg (Thumbnail size)</li>
<li>…(And Your Custom File Sizes)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Insert HTML into the editor</h4>
<p>Select a PDF file in the Media Uploader and insert it into the the editor. An output HTML is automatically rewritten like below.</p>
<pre><code><a class="link-to-pdf" title="dummy-pdf" href="http://exmaple.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/dummy-pdf.pdf" target="_blank"><img width="227" height="320" class="size-medium wp-image-9999 thumb-of-pdf" src="http://exmaple.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/dummy-pdf-pdf-227x320.jpg" alt="thumbnail-of-dummy-pdf" /></a>
</code></pre>
<p>*If you are using a document viewer plugin (like GDE) and want insert html which is made by it, select “Default (Title)” of “media” selector.</p>
<h4>Get thumbnail in template file</h4>
<p>A generated image ID is stored in [‘_thumbnail_id’] custom field of a PDF attachment post. An image ID is exportable by using get_post_thumbnail_id($your_pdf_id) or get_post_meta($your_pdf_id, ‘_thumbnail_id’, true) functions in a template file.</p>
<pre><code>$pdf_id = 'your PDF file ID';
if ( $thumbnail_id = get_post_thumbnail_id( $pdf_id ) ) {
echo '<a class="pdf-link image-link" href="'.wp_get_attachment_url( $pdf_id ).'" title="'.esc_attr( get_the_title( $pdf_id ) ).'" target="_blank">'.wp_get_attachment_image ( $thumbnail_id, 'medium' ).'</a>';
}
</code></pre>
<p>Or more simply, you can call images and link to PDF files by wp_get_attachment_image($your_pdf_id, $size) and wp_get_attachment_link($your_pdf_id, $size) functions. (v1.2 or later) *If the plugin is deactivated, this function just will return empty.</p>
<pre><code>$pdf_id = 'your PDF file ID';
echo wp_get_attachment_image ( $pdf_id, 'medium' );
echo wp_get_attachment_link ( $pdf_id, 'medium' );
</code></pre>
<p>If you call all PDFs that are attached to the post. You can get them by get_posts function.</p>
<p>Examples.<br />
Dynamically get PDFs that are attached to the post.</p>
<pre><code><?php
$pdfs = get_posts( 'posts_per_page=-1&post_type=attachment&post_mime_type=application/pdf&post_parent='.$post->ID );
if( $pdfs ): foreach( $pdfs as $pdf ):
  $thumbnail_id = get_post_thumbnail_id( $pdf->ID );
  if( $thumbnail_id ):
    echo '<li>';
    echo '<a href="'wp_get_attachment_url( $pdf->ID )'" class="link-to-pdf">';
    echo wp_get_attachment_image ( $thumbnail_id, 'medium' );
    echo '</a>';
    echo '</li>';
  endif;
endforeach; endif;
?>
</code></pre>
<h4>Set PDF thumbnail as Featured Image</h4>
<p>The plugin support you to set PDF as Featured Image. (v1.2 or later)<br />
Strictly explaining, when you set a PDF as Featured Image, the plugin automatically set the thumbnail which is registered with this PDF.<br />
You can call thumbnail by using get_the_post_thumbnail function.</p>
<pre><code>echo get_the_post_thumbnail ( $post->ID, 'medium' );
</code></pre>
<p>May you want pdf file from the post thumbnail.</p>
<pre><code>$thumb_id = get_post_thumbnail_id ( $post->ID );
$pdf_id = get_post( $thumb_id )->post_parent;
if ( $pdf_id && get_post_mime_type ( $pdf_id ) === 'application/pdf' ){
  $pdf = get_post($pdf_id);
  echo '<a class="link-to-pdf" href="'.wp_get_attachment_url($pdf_id).'" title="'.esc_html($pdf->post_title).'" target="_blank">'.get_the_post_thumbnail().'</a>'."\n";
}
</code></pre>
<h4>Display attachment data with in caption</h4>
<p>The plugin allows you to insert [caption] short-code into the post content area as when insert an image. If you want to display attachment title, description, file type, file size and so on, use img_caption_shortcode filter in your functions.php.<br />
Here’s an example code…<br />
    function add_attachment_data_in_caption( $empty, $attr, $content ) {<br />
        $attr = shortcode_atts( array( ‘id’=>”, ‘align’=>’alignnone’, ‘width’=>”, ‘caption’=>” ), $attr );<br />
        if ( 1 > (int) $attr[‘width’] || empty( $attr[‘caption’] ) ) return ”;<br />
        if ( $attr[‘id’] ) {<br />
            $attr[‘id’] = ‘id=”‘ . esc_attr( $attr[‘id’] ) . ‘” ‘;<br />
            $attachment_id = explode(‘_’, $attr[‘id’]);<br />
            $attachment_id = $attachment_id[1];// get attachment id<br />
            if( get_post_mime_type ( $attachment_id ) === ‘application/pdf’ ){<br />
                $attachment = get_post( $attachment_id );<br />
                $bytes = filesize( get_attached_file( $attachment->ID ) );<br />
                if ($bytes >= 1073741824) $bytes = number_format($bytes / 1073741824, 2). ‘ GB’;<br />
                elseif ($bytes >= 1048576) $bytes = number_format($bytes / 1048576, 2). ‘ MB’;<br />
                elseif ($bytes >= 1024) $bytes = number_format($bytes / 1024, 2). ‘ KB’;<br />
                elseif ($bytes > 1) $bytes = $bytes. ‘ bytes’;<br />
                elseif ($bytes == 1) $bytes = $bytes. ‘ byte’;<br />
                else $bytes = ‘0 bytes’;<br />
                $attr[‘caption’] =<br />
                  ‘title : ‘ .$attachment->post_title. ‘<br />‘ . // title<br />
                  ‘caption : ‘ .$attr[‘caption’]. ‘<br />‘ .// caption<br />
                  ‘size : ‘ .$bytes. ‘<br />‘ . // file size<br />
                  ‘filetype : ‘ .get_post_mime_type ( $attachment_id ). ‘<br />‘ . // file type<br />
                  ‘description : ‘ .$attachment->post_content. ‘<br />‘; // description<br />
            }<br />
        }</p>
<pre><code>    return 
      '<div ' .$attr['id']. 'class="wp-caption ' .esc_attr( $attr['align'] ). '" style="max-width: ' .( 10 + (int) $attr['width'] ). 'px;">' .
      do_shortcode( $content ). '<p class="wp-caption-text">' .$attr['caption']. '</p>' .
      '</div>';
}
add_filter('img_caption_shortcode', 'add_attachment_data_in_caption', 10, 3);
</code></pre>
<h4>Generate thumbnails of all PDFs in the media library</h4>
<p>You can generate thumbnails of any already-uploaded PDFs.<br />
Activate the plugin and Click “Generate Thumbnails Now” link in “settings”. (v1.3.3 or later)</p>
<h4>Change attachment link attributes</h4>
<pre><code>function pigen_filter_attachment_link ( $html, $attach_id, $attach_url, $attach_output ){
  $attach_title = get_the_title( $attach_id );
  $html = '<a class="link-to-pdf" href="'.$attach_url.'" rel="attachment wp-att-' .esc_attr($attach_id). '" title="'.esc_attr( $attach_title ).'" target="_blank">' .$attach_output. '</a>';
  return $html;
};
add_filter( 'pigen_filter_attachment_link', 'pigen_filter_attachment_link', 10, 4 );
</code></pre>
<h4>Change thumbnail attributes</h4>
<pre><code>function pigen_filter_attachment_output ( $attach_output, $thumbnail_id, $thumbnail, $size, $align ){
  $attach_output =  '<img src="'. $thumbnail[0] .'" alt="'.get_post_meta( $thumbnail_id, '_wp_attachment_image_alt', true ).'" width="'. $thumbnail[1] .'" height="'. $thumbnail[2] .'" class="'.( $align ? 'align' .$align. ' ' : '' ). 'size-' .esc_attr( $size ). ' wp-image-'.$thumbnail_id.'" />';
  return $attach_output;
};
add_filter( 'pigen_filter_attachment_output', 'pigen_filter_attachment_output', 10, 5 );
</code></pre>
<h4>Modify imageMagick’s Settings</h4>
<p>Filters allow you to add your own modify imageMagick’s behaviour by hooking.</p>
<p>Sample usage for imageMagick user.</p>
<pre><code>function pigen_filter_convert_file_basename( $file_basename ){
  $file_basename = str_replace( '.jpg', '.png', $file_basename );
  return $file_basename;
};
add_filter( 'pigen_filter_convert_file_basename', 'pigen_filter_convert_file_basename' );

function pigen_filter_convert_imageMagick( $imageMagick, $before_name, $after_name, $max_width, $max_height ){
  $imageMagick = "convert -density 150 -quality 80 -background black -flatten {$max_width}x{$max_height} {$before_name} {$after_name}";
  return $imageMagick;
};
add_filter( 'pigen_filter_convert_imageMagick', 'pigen_filter_convert_imageMagick', 10, 5 );
</code></pre>
<p>Sample usage for imagick extension user.</p>
<pre><code>function pigen_filter_convert_file_basename( $file_basename ){
  $file_basename = str_replace( '.jpg', '.png', $file_basename );
  return $file_basename;
};
add_filter( 'pigen_filter_convert_file_basename', 'pigen_filter_convert_file_basename' );

function pigen_filter_convert_imagick( $imagick ){
  $imagick->setImageBackgroundColor( 'black' );
  $imagick->setCompressionQuality( 80 );
  $imagick->setImageFormat( 'png' );
return $imagick;
};
add_filter( 'pigen_filter_convert_imagick', 'pigen_filter_convert_imagick' );
</code></pre>
<h4>Automatically save image/PDF as featured image</h4>
<p>Automatically set PDF thumbnail as featured image.</p>
<pre><code>function save_pdf_thumb_as_featuredimage ( $post_id ) { 
    if ( wp_is_post_revision( $post_id ) ) return; 
    if ( get_post_type( $post_id ) !== 'post' ) return; // set your post type
    if ( get_post_meta( $post_id, '_thumbnail_id', true ) ) return; // post already has featured image
    $attaches = get_posts ( 'post_parent='.$post_id.'&numberposts=-1&post_type=attachment&post_mime_type=application/pdf&orderby=menu_order&order=ASC' );
    if ( $attaches ): foreach( $attaches as $attach ):
        if ( $thumb_id = get_post_meta( $attach->ID, '_thumbnail_id', true ) ){ // if pdf has thumbnail
            update_post_meta( $post_id, '_thumbnail_id', $thumb_id );
            break;
        }
    endforeach; endif;
}
add_action( 'save_post', 'save_pdf_thumb_as_featuredimage' );
</code></pre>
<p>Automatically set first image/PDF as featured image.</p>
<pre><code>function save_thumbnail_as_featuredimage ( $post_id ) { 
    if ( wp_is_post_revision( $post_id ) ) return;
    if ( get_post_type( $post_id ) !== 'post' ) return; // set your post type
    if ( get_post_meta( $post_id, '_thumbnail_id', true ) ) return; // post already has featured image
    $args = array(
        'post_parent' => $post_id,
        'post_type' => 'attachment',
        'numberposts' => -1,
        'post_status' => null,
        'orderby' => 'menu_order date',
        'order' => 'ASC ASC'
    );
    $attaches = get_posts($args);
    if ( $attaches ): foreach( $attaches as $attach ):
        if ( $attach->post_mime_type == 'application/pdf' ){
            if ( $thumb_id = get_post_meta( $attach->ID, '_thumbnail_id', true ) ){ // if pdf has thumbnail
                update_post_meta( $post_id, '_thumbnail_id', $thumb_id );
                break;
            }
        } elseif ( preg_match("/^image\//", $attach->post_mime_type ) ) {
            update_post_meta( $post_id, '_thumbnail_id', $attach->ID );
            break;
        }
    endforeach; endif;
}
add_action( 'save_post', 'save_thumbnail_as_featuredimage' );
</code></pre>


PDF Image Generator

Also ties in really nicely with the media uploader, the image is set as the 'icon' field of the attachment, as one would want. PS The feature for generating images for existing pdfs is at the bottom of the settings - scroll down to see (unlike me the first time)!

Super stuff. Works perfectly.

Very impressed with how quick and easy it was to get up and running with the generated pdf views.

Great Little Plugin

Generate automatically cover image of PDF by using ImageMagick. Allow user to insert PDF link with thumbnail into editor and set as Featured Image.

Get the Image vs PDF Image Generator