Dario Ferrer

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).
This plugin combines the best image management functionalities in WordPress and turn their handling in a very easy job.
<h4>How works WP Smart Image II</h4>
WP Smart Image II takes all WordPress image functions and put on your hands in a simple and right way.
<h4>“Right way”?… Are there wrong ways to show post images?</h4>
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.
<h4>What’s the problem with WordPress native image engine?</h4>
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.
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.
<h4>What isn’t Wp Smart Image II?</h4>
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.
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.
<h4>What you can do with WP Smart Image II</h4>
General
<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>
Design & layout
<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: Thumbnail, Medium, Large and Full. 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>
Web Development
<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 PHP mode, 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>
Blogging
<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>
Enjoy designing!
<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>
If you have been translated this plugin into your language, please let me know.

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.

Aesqe

“File Gallery” extends WordPress’ media (attachments) capabilities 
by adding a new gallery shortcode handler with templating support, 
a new interface for attachment handling when editing posts, and much 
more… Here’s the full list of features:
Features:
<ol>
<li>multiple galleries per post with custom attachment order</li>
<li>a flexible templating system (PHP, CSS, JS) – choose a different 
template for each gallery, even within the same post (4 templates 
included with plugin)</li>
<li>simple, easy to use UI with drag and drop sorting shows attachment 
thumbnails beneath text editor: everything attachments-related is on 
the same screen you’re editing your post on</li>
<li>fully integrated with the visual editor (tinyMCE) – click on the 
[gallery] placeholder image and change any option in the File 
Gallery metabox – changes will be applied instantly</li>
<li>settings page extends the default media settings page</li>
<li>attach copies of items from media library to current post (copies 
data only, not the file)</li>
<li>copy all attachments from another post</li>
<li>unattach (detach) items from current post</li>
<li>media tags = tag your attachments and then use those tags to choose 
which attachments you want to display in your gallery or to filter 
your media library items.</li>
<li>custom fields for attachments</li>
<li>gallery pagination</li>
<li>different background colors for items in media library depending 
on their status = completely unattached (white), attached to other 
posts (red), or attached to current post (yellow)</li>
<li>compatible with “WordPress Mobile Edition”, “Media Tags” and 
“WPML Multilingual CMS” plugins </li>
<li>basic caching of gallery output and frequent queries (transients)</li>
<li>please see the help file for complete list of features</li>
</ol>
<h3>More info</h3>
This plugin uses icons from the awesome famfamfam Silk icon set by 
Mark James. 
“Silk” can be found at: http://famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/
Plugin settings are integrated into media settings page.
Help file is included, you’ll find it in the “help” subfolder.
<h3>Translation Credits</h3>
Hebrew: 
* Maor Barazany – http://www.maorb.info/
French: 
* Jean-Michel Meyer – http://www.li-an.fr/wpplugins/
Italian: 
* Pietro Palli – http://ppal.li/ 
* Francesco Canovi – http://www.blackstudio.it/
Arabic: 
* Wassem Mansour – http://www.sanapix.com
Lithuanian: 
* Vincent G – http://www.Host1Free.com
Polish: 
* Michał Budzik – http://www.mindborn.pl/en/
<h3>Contributors</h3>
Greg Haddow (https://github.com/shaddowgh/) 
Josh Eaton (https://github.com/jjeaton/) 
Andrea Baccega (https://github.com/vekexasia)
<h3>Thanks goes out to…</h3>
<ul>
<li>All the contributors, translators, and people leaving comments, 
bug reports and suggestions on the official page and in the 
WordPress.org forums</li>
</ul>
<h3>Plans for the next versions</h3>
sooner:
<ul>
<li>manage media tags for all selected attachments</li>
<li>audio and video preview on editing screens</li>
</ul>
later:
<ul>
<li>phpdoc all the functions</li>
<li>more detailed description for file_gallery_shortcode function 
(what can be used in ‘orderby’, what do ‘columns’ mean) for beginner programmers</li>
<li>yoxview lightbox http://www.yellow-llama.com/yoxview-gallery-wordpress-plugin/</li>
</ul>
maybe:
<ul>
<li>show attachments’ Custom Fields in the main page of Media Library (custom column)</li>
<li>media library sort by file size or picture dimensions</li>
</ul>
probably not, but who knows:
<ul>
<li>watermarking – probably in another plugin…</li>
<li>when detaching / deleting attachments, just remove them from DOM 
without refreshing the entire file gallery box, but take care of 
originals and copies</li>
</ul>
And thank you for reading this 🙂
aesqe

File Gallery

File Gallery extends WordPress media (attachments) capabilities 
by adding a new gallery shortcode handler with templating support 
(and much more).

WP Smart Image II vs File Gallery