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.

Grégory Viguier

<p>This plugin is meant for developers, it allows to attach a thumbnail to taxonomy terms.</p>
<h4>UI for setting the thumbnails</h4>
<p>The thumbnail can be added on term creation or later on the term edition page.<br />
The terms list has a column displaying the current thumbnail (so far, no specific action here).<br />
The plugin uses the “new” media window (the one used since WP 3.5), not the old thickbox.<br />
I made some extra efforts to enhance accessibility. I’m not an a11y expert but the UI is not only a “Add thumbnail” button. For instance, the new <code>wp.a11y.speak()</code> is used when available. Please give me feedback if you think it can be improved.<br />
Works with or without JavaScript.<br />
If JavaScript is enabled, thumbnails are set via ajax in the term edition window, no need to update the term.<br />
By default, the UI is displayed for all public taxonomies, but this can be filtered that way:</p>
<pre><code>add_filter( 'sftth_taxonomies', 'my_taxonomies_with_thumbnail' );

function my_taxonomies_with_thumbnail( $taxonomies ) {
    unset( $taxonomies['post_tag'] );
    $taxonomies['my_custom_tax'] = 'my_custom_tax';
    return $taxonomies;
}
</code></pre>
<h4>Template tags</h4>
<p>Find them in <code>inc/template-tags.php</code>.<br />
<strong>Important note: for WP 4.4+, these functions use <code>term_id</code>. For WP < 4.4, they use <code>term_taxonomy_id</code>.</strong><br />
I tried to mimic the post thumbnail functions:</p>
<ol>
<li><code>get_term_thumbnail_id( $term_id )</code>: Retrieve term thumbnail ID.</li>
<li><code>has_term_thumbnail( $term_id )</code>: Check if a term has a thumbnail attached to it.</li>
<li><code>the_term_thumbnail( $term_id, $size = 'post-thumbnail', $attr = '' )</code>: Display the term thumbnail.</li>
<li><code>get_term_thumbnail( $term_id, $size = 'post-thumbnail', $attr = '' )</code>: Retrieve the term thumbnail.</li>
<li><code>set_term_thumbnail( $term_id, $thumbnail_id )</code>: Set a term thumbnail.</li>
<li><code>delete_term_thumbnail( $term_id )</code>: Detach a thumbnail from a term.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Store the data</h4>
<p>From WordPress 4.4, the term metas API is used.<br />
Below WordPress 4.4, there are two ways to store the thumbnail IDs:</p>
<ol>
<li>Use term metas with the plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/meta-for-taxonomies/" rel="ugc">Meta for Taxonomies</a>.</li>
<li>Use an option (an array association of <code>term_taxonomy_id</code> => <code>thumbnail_id</code> integers). The option name can be customized by defining the constant <code>SFTTH_OPTION_NAME</code> in <code>wp-config.php</code>.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Get terms</h4>
<p>Use <code>get_terms()</code> with a specific parameter to retrieve only terms with a thumbnail:</p>
<pre><code>$terms = get_terms( array(
    'with_thumbnail' => true,
) );
</code></pre>
<p>From WordPress 4.4, you can also use a small helper to build your meta query:</p>
<pre><code>$terms = get_terms( array(
    'meta_query' => array(
        'relation' => 'AND',
        array(
            // Any meta query.
        ),
        sftth_meta_query(),
    ),
) );
</code></pre>
<p>Below WordPress 4.4, if you use the plugin <em>Meta for Taxonomies</em>, you should always cache thumbnails.<br />
When using <code>'with_thumbnail' => false</code> you will retrieve all terms, even those without a thumbnail, but the thumbnails will be cached, saving calls to the database later:</p>
<pre><code>$terms = get_terms( array(
    'with_thumbnail' => false,
) );
</code></pre>
<h4>Uninstall</h4>
<p>When uninstalling the plugin, you can decide to not delete the thumbnails, simply define a constant in <code>wp-config.php</code>:</p>
<pre><code>define( 'SFTTH_KEEP_DATA', true );
</code></pre>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<ul>
<li>US English</li>
<li>French</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<p>Should work starting from WP 3.5, but tested only in WP 4.2.2+ so far.</p>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<p>Photo used for the banner by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/n1colas/2598073727/" rel="nofollow ugc">Nicolas Janik</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/" rel="nofollow ugc">CC BY 2.0</a>).</p>


Taxonomy Thumbnail

Does the work well

So easy to use, writing this review takes longer than using and understanding the plugin.
*****

Get the Image vs Taxonomy Thumbnail