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.

Dario Ferrer

<p>WP Smart Image II is a WordPress plugin which gives you a whole control over the thumbnails that you wish to show with posts and pages (e.g. the index of a website).</p>
<p>This plugin combines the best image management functionalities in WordPress and turn their handling in a very easy job.</p>
<h4>How works WP Smart Image II</h4>
<p>WP Smart Image II takes all WordPress image functions and put on your hands in a simple and right way.</p>
<h4>“Right way”?… Are there wrong ways to show post images?</h4>
<p>Yes! Custom fields (e.g.) is a very wrong and annoying way to do this job. If you are used custom fields to assign images to posts, with WP Smart Image II will forget all the extra work and will enjoy the real process automation that has been in WordPress all this time and probably you never knew existed.</p>
<h4>What’s the problem with WordPress native image engine?</h4>
<p>No problem! Otherwise, the <a href="http://www.wordpress.org" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress</a> image engine is one of the most advanced and flexible ones so far. WordPress offers a wide range of functionalities and tags, which allows for and easy handling of images and files, associating them with posts, categories, pages and other elements with total freedom.</p>
<p>However, the problem with all these funcionalities is that finding the propper way to associate data and get a specific result can get really hard. In an attempt to do that, many people have tried to do it by setting through custom fields, ignoring that WordPress has a large platform with many resources at our disposal to do that.</p>
<h4>What isn’t Wp Smart Image II?</h4>
<p>It is not a filter that works inside the content. WP Smart Image II only works in the template areas and it’s use is focused to the template’s file system.</p>
<p>It is not a plugin that changes other functionalities behaviour. It’s a resource that lets you take advantage of the already existing functionalities provided by WordPress.</p>
<h4>What you can do with WP Smart Image II</h4>
<p><strong>General</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>A wide range of functionalities using a single tag.</li>
<li>A plugin that uses the WordPress resources in a very productive way and does not overload your system.</li>
<li>Stable, reliable and always working.</li>
<li>A tool with many, many options to give you the control over your design, blogging or development.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Design & layout</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Add <code>"width"</code> and <code>"height"</code> attributes through CSS or HTML methods.</li>
<li>Personalize the <code>"alt"</code> and <code>"title"</code> attributes if they haven’t been configured yet.</li>
<li>Choose between the four presets WordPress sizes: <strong>Thumbnail</strong>, <strong>Medium</strong>, <strong>Large</strong> and <strong>Full</strong>. Additionally, you can create new plugin preset sizes with <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/max-image-size-control/" rel="ugc">Max Image Size Control</a>, and easily handle them through WP Smart Image II.</li>
<li>Customize the generic images and its paths for all the sizes.</li>
<li>Link the image to the article or leave it without a link.</li>
<li>Add a link to the full version of the image from the thumbnail or any size.</li>
<li>Add a link to the image’s attachment page from the thumbnail or any size.</li>
<li>Show random images per post (instead only one).</li>
<li>Show preset images at the posts list if images are not setting to appear in the content. Also you can choose to leave it without images.</li>
<li>Adapt the tag type to website DTD for a right W3C valitation.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Web Development</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Choose between “echo” or “return” the tag.</li>
<li>Add custom CSS classes and ID to properly handling the images through CSS, javascript, PHP and others web resources.</li>
<li>Get the image url instead of the whole tag.</li>
<li>Easily add and define attributes to image’s links, as <code>"rel"</code>, <code>"class"</code>, <code>"id"</code> and <code>"target"</code>.</li>
<li>Literally slice the image data in pieces and post them separately (width, height, mimetype, ID, etc.)</li>
<li>Choose to run the plugin under <strong>PHP mode</strong>, without need to db queries for common tasks.</li>
<li>Add custom attributes as you wish (as javascript events) and apply dynamic data tho them.</li>
<li>Handle multiple images per post directly or in <code>array</code> mode as well.</li>
<li>Switch easily between double or single quotes for tag attributes.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Blogging</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Choose the image to show throught a friendly widget in the editor.</li>
<li>Choose any image from your Media Library and assign it to the post.</li>
<li>Show/hide thumbnails in RSS feeds.</li>
<li>Customize sizes in RSS feeds.</li>
<li>Assing titles of the images directly from your editor box</li>
<li>Choose any image from your Media Library and assign it to the post, even if the image isn’t attached to the post.</li>
<li>Use The Post Thumbnail editor box to manage images processed under the WPSI engine.</li>
</ul>
<p>Enjoy designing!</p>
<h4>Localization</h4>
<ul>
<li>Dutch (nl_NL) – Rene from <a href="http://wpwebshop.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Webshop</a></li>
<li>Russian (ru_RU) – Vladimir from <a href="http://www.shinephp.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">ShinePHP</a></li>
<li>Spanish (es_ES) – Dario Ferrer</li>
</ul>
<p>If you have been translated this plugin into your language, please let me know.</p>


WP Smart Image II

Powerful, reliable and lightweight plugin which helps you to easily show post images and handle them. Essential tool for web designers and developers.

Get the Image vs WP Smart Image II