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SimpleRecentThumbs is a widget plugin that shows a list of thumbnails from recent posts with featured images, optionally filtered by a category. Other than setting up the widget details, no configuration is required.
The thumbnails are in a widget-standard unordered list. The widget CSS class is widget_recent_thumbs and the thumbnail links are class post_thumb.
Leaving the category field empty will have the widget use thumbnails from all posts; posts without featured images will not be listed. Without a category specified, the “more” button option will do nothing.
Thumbnail size is as specified in the Media settings for WordPress.
SimpleRecentThumbs has no extra requirements and has been tested with the twentyten through twentyfourteen themes.
Development on this plugin has halted. Other developers should feel free to use the Apache-licensed code for their own projects.
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09/28/14
<h3>License</h3>
Copyright 2014 Christian Wagner
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SimpleRecentThumbs

SimpleRecentThumbs is a widget plugin that shows a list of thumbnails from recent posts with featured images, optionally filtered by a category.

maff

The plugin is actually just a port of a plugin/snippet I wrote for <a href="http://www.modxcms.com" rel="nofollow ugc">MODx</a> a while ago (<a href="http://modxcms.com/phpThumb-Package-1522.html" rel="nofollow ugc">see here</a>). It scans your content’s source code for <img> tags with width and height attributes and passes them to <a href="http://phpthumb.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">phpThumb</a>, a great PHP image editing library, which handles the resizing and editing of the image. Additionally, by passing parameters to phpThumb using a query string, it’s possible to edit the image in several ways (take a look at <a href="http://phpthumb.sourceforge.net/demo/demo/phpThumb.demo.demo.php" rel="nofollow ugc">phpThumb’s demos</a>).
The simplest way to get resized images is to specify width/height attibutes in your HTML. AutoThumb will use the given values and remove the attributes from your page’s output. When you take a look at the URLs of the example images found on the plugin home page, you will see that the <img>-tag’s src-attribute points to a file called image.php in the plugin’s directory. This file takes the image source and several other parameters and passes them to phpThumb, which will generate and output the final image (of course images will be cached).
To prevent evil people playing with the query string and letting your server generate tons of different images, the plugin generates a hash which is a combination of the query string and a secret password you set in phpThumb’s config file. So every call with different parameters (even the same image with different sizes) has another unique hash and it’s not possible to generate new images without knowing the secret password.
See the <a href="http://ailoo.net/projects/autothumb/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin page</a> for more details on the plugin.
All development is done on <a href="https://github.com/maff/wp-autothumb" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>. If you have ideas, enhancements, etc. feel free to fork the project and send a pull request.
For any issues please use the <a href="https://github.com/maff/wp-autothumb/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">Issue Tracker</a>.

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