Thumbnailer
Thumbnailer is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to generate thumbnails of images "on the fly" i.e. the script will create a thumbnail of the original image as it is viewed.
It is based on phpThumb() which has many features you can apply to your thumbnails.
Installation
Simply download the script and extract the files to /wp-content/plugins/ then activate it via your control panel.
Download
Download Thumbnailer v1.0Usage
When you write/edit a post you should see a button in the toolbar that says "Thumbnail". Clicking on this will run a script asking you for an image URL, width and height, and then insert the correct code into your post. If you do not see this then follow the example below:
<thumbnail width="120" height="100">http://site.com/image.jpg</thumbnail>
If you do not specify a width or height, the image will show as it's original width or height.
Extending
Because Thumbnailer is based on phpThumb() you can make further changes to it in the phpThumb.config.php file. This is useful if you want to cache the thumbnail for example.
If you wanted to apply further effects to your thumbnails, you simply add more attributes to the <thumbnail> tag. For example, to get this effect you would do the following:
<thumbnail width="250" sx="600" sy="5" sw="100" sh="100" aoe="1">images/disk.jpg</thumbnail>
To use the filter method in phpThumb() to get this effect you would do the following:
<thumbnail width="200" filter="wmi|images/watermark.png|BL">images/disk.jpg</thumbnail>
Note:
| 1. Thumbnailer only comes with the core phpThumb() files for resizing. You will have to download all of the files to use these effects. |
| 2. You cannot have spaces in your attribute values. Make sure you replace these spaces with a _ |
| 3. The latest version of phpThumb() that comes with Thumbnailer is 1.7. If you upgrade your phpThumb() files make sure you set allow_local_http_src to true. |
Help
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