Samuel Aguilera

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<p>This plugin adds cropping, resizing, and rotating functionality to WordPress’ image upload and management dialogs. Scissors also allows automatic resizing of images when they are uploaded and supports automatic and manual watermarking of images. Additionally, images that are resized in the post editor are automatically resampled to the requested size using bilinear filtering when a post is saved, which improves the perceived image quality while reducing the amount of data transferred at the same time.</p>
<p>Please note that WordPress versions 2.8 and older are not supported! Scissors Continued is an edited copy of Scissors v1.3.7 which stopped working in v2.9 and up.</p>


Scissors Continued

Scissors Continued enhances WordPress' handling of images by introducing cropping, resizing, rotating, and watermarking functionality.

Atte Liimatainen

<p>Generates base64 encoded, downscaled and blurred versions of media library’s images, which can be used f.e. as a placeholder.</p>
<h3>Inspiration</h3>
<p>After Wolt showcased their <a href="https://blurha.sh/" rel="nofollow ugc">Blurhash</a> technique, I wanted to make something similar to WordPress. Instead of encoding images to base83 like the food delivery company does, I went with base64 so development experience was easier.</p>
<h3>How to start using the plugin</h3>
<ul>
<li>Install and activate this plugin in your environment
<ul>
<li>The plugin should generate blurs for each image on the activation.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Check an image’s details in your media library. It should have listing of all generated blurs.</li>
<li>To get a blur to a template, use <code>get_post_meta()</code>. Check example theme in <a href="https://github.com/AttLii/image-blur" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin’s repository</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Customization</h3>
<p>The plugin provides few filters, so developers can modify generated blur images to their needs. By default, generated images are 8 pixels wide and passed once through gaussian blur function, which will result in roughly 250-1000 characters long string. To change these, use following hooks:</p>
<pre><code>function modify_image_blur_width( int $width ): int {
  return 15;
}
add_filter("image-blur-modify-width", "modify_image_blur_width");

function modify_gaussian_blur_strength( int $strength ): int {
  return 10;
}
add_filter("image-blur-modify-gaussian-blur-strength", "modify_gaussian_blur_strength");
</code></pre>


Image Blur

Generates base64 encoded, downscaled and blurred versions of media library's images, which can be used f.e. as a placeholder.

Scissors Continued vs Image Blur