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.

Sybre Waaijer

<p>Pro Mime Types adds a nifty (network) admin interface for allowing or blocking many file extensions for uploading media, documents, and other attachments.</p>
<p>It also shows you a list of all allowed MIME types on the site or network.</p>
<ul>
<li>When a MIME type is allowed, users who can upload files can now do so for that MIME type.</li>
<li>When a MIME type is blocked, users see an error that the file isn’t allowed for security reasons.</li>
</ul>
<p>For WordPress Multisite networks, you can enable this plugin in network mode to control MIME types for the entire network.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>You can control many MIME types and extensions for upload via a modern interface.</li>
<li>Pro Mime Types comes preconfigured by enabling many safe MIME types.</li>
<li>View all allowed MIME types for the site (also those enabled by other plugins).</li>
<li>Every MIME type comes with a security summary explaining why you should or shouldn’t allow it. To view the summary, hover the mouse cursor over the big colored icon.</li>
<li>Accessibility is at the forefront. For example, you can use full keyboard navigation, even for tooltips.</li>
<li>Adds text, code, and miscellaneous file types to the Media Library for sorting.</li>
<li>The Media Library gains support for more file types for sorting images, audio, video, documents, spreadsheets, and archives.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Multisite support</h3>
<p>This plugin can run in network mode, where all sites are allowed one set of MIME types. You can configure the allowed MIME types via the network administration UI.</p>
<p>Alternatively, Pro Mime Types can run in single-site mode, where every subsite has custom-allowed MIME types. Only the network administrator can assign these on a per-site basis.</p>


Pro Mime Types – Manage file media types

Pro Mime Types adds a nifty admin interface for allowing or blocking many file extensions for uploading media, documents, and other attachments.

WP Smart Image II vs Pro Mime Types – Manage file media types