Justin Tadlock

Get the Image is one of the most advanced thumbnail/image scripts ever created for WordPress.
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.
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.
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!
<h3>Before using</h3>
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.
<h3>A little history</h3>
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.
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.
The plugin has been downloaded 100,000s of times and is used on millions of sites as part of WordPress theme packages.
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.
<h3>Professional support</h3>
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).
<h3>Plugin Development</h3>
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>.
<h3>Donations</h3>
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>.
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.

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.

Presswell

benplum

Presswell Art Direction helps simplify how custom image thumbnail sizes are defined, cropped, and generated.
Features
<ul>
<li>Control image cropping with hot-spots</li>
<li>Select custom image sizes in the WordPress editor</li>
<li>Dynamically generate image thumbnails</li>
<li>Delete all cached thumbnails</li>
</ul>
Image Cropping
Presswell Art Direction adds the ability to set a focal point hot-spot for all images in the media library for fine grain cropping control. Simply identify where the subject of the photo is and the plugin will crop all custom image thumbnails to ensure it stays in frame.
Thumbnail Sizes
Presswell Art Direction adds an easy to use interface for defining and editing custom image thumbnail sizes. Custom image sizes will be available for selection when inserting images in the post editor.
Dynamic Images
Presswell Art Direction prevents custom image sizes from being generated automatically. Only standard WordPress thumbnails will be generated when a new image is uploaded. All other image sizes will be dynamically generated when called via code or requested via URL, saving server space when many custom image sizes are defined. Note: URL based image generation requires that <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks" rel="nofollow ugc">pretty permalinks</a> are enabled.
<h4>Documentation</h4>
pwad_add_image_size( $args )
<ul>
<li>$args (array) (required) – Keyed array containing <code>name</code>, <code>key</code>, <code>height</code>, <code>width</code>, and optionally <code>thumbnails</code> values; Thumbnail keys are prefixed with parent’s key like ‘[size]-[thumbnail]’</li>
</ul>
Example:
<pre><code>pwad_add_image_size( array(
 'name' => 'Square',
 'key' => 'square',
 'width' => '1200',
 'height' => '1200',
 'thumbnails' => array(
 array(
 'name' => 'Medium',
 'key' => 'medium',
 'width' => '800',
 'height' => '800',
 ),
 array(
 'name' => 'Small',
 'key' => 'small',
 'width' => '400',
 'height' => '400',
 ),
 ),
) );
</code></pre>
pwad_get_image( $attachment_ID, $size_key, $thumbnail_key )
<ul>
<li>$attachment_ID (int) (required) – ID of image attachment</li>
<li>$size_key (string) (required) – Image size identifier; Overload using ‘[size]-[thumbnail]’ pattern</li>
<li>$thumbnail_key (string) (required) – Image size thumbnail identifier</li>
</ul>
Returns an image tag.
Example:
<pre><code>$square_large = pwad_get_image( $img_ID, 'square' );
$square_medium = pwad_get_image( $img_ID, 'square', 'medium' );
$square_small = pwad_get_image( $img_ID, 'square-small' ); // Overloaded
</code></pre>
pwad_get_image_src( $attachment_ID, $size_key, $thumbnail_key )
<ul>
<li>$attachment_ID (int) (required) – ID of image attachment</li>
<li>$size_key (string) (required) – Image size identifier; Overload using ‘[size]-[thumbnail]’ pattern</li>
<li>$thumbnail_key (string) (required) – Image size thumbnail identifier</li>
</ul>
Returns a keyed array containing the <code>file</code>, <code>url</code>, <code>path</code>, <code>height</code>, <code>width</code>, and <code>mime-type</code> values.
Example:
<pre><code>$square_large = pwad_get_image_src( $img_ID, 'square' );
$square_medium = pwad_get_image_src( $img_ID, 'square', 'medium' );
$square_small = pwad_get_image_src( $img_ID, 'square-small' ); // Overloaded
</code></pre>

Presswell Art Direction

Really easy to use, and integrated perfectly with the front end of the site without any extra javascript or CSS required. Perfect add-on.

Very well done

Control how custom image thumbnail sizes are defined, cropped, and generated.

Get the Image vs Presswell Art Direction