The Get the Image plugin for WordPress is one of my favorite plugins because it handles all of the work when I need to display thumbnails on my site archives. It can do so much more than thumbnails though.
I was recently contacted about adding some extra features to the script for some client work. Fortunately for you all, the client agreed to let me release the changes back to the WordPress community in an update to the plugin.
What does the plugin do?
The plugin basically runs through a list of things, checking for an image:
- Check for images by custom field key.
- If no image, grab an attachment image.
- If no attachments, scan the post content for an image (new feature).
- If no images at this point, the script can be set to a default.
There’s also quite a few new features you can set:
- Custom CSS class.
- Order of attachment image to check for.
- Image width.
- Image height.
- Ability to return for use in your own function.
Get the latest version
If you’re using one of my themes, don’t install this plugin as it is integrated into your theme.
All instructions are included in the readme.html file included with the download. It is especially important that you read this if you’re upgrading from a previous version as a few things have changed and you’ll need to update your template files.
- Description: This is a highly intuitive script that gets an image either by custom field input or post attachment.
- Version: 0.3
- Requires: WordPress 2.5+
- Support: Support forums
- Download the plugin
Please don’t use my contact page or the comments section below to ask support questions. Use my support forums at Theme Hybrid, which is where I handle all support questions for my WordPress projects.
The new features are what I’m looking for! Thanks a lot, Justin (and your client)
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Your plugin is the best when it comes to images. I manage about 6 blogs with daily updates, and it saves me a lot of boring work.
Se7en — No problem. Some of the new features are pretty cool.
j. noronha — Yeah, sometimes I’m a little lazy with posting images, and I just let the image script handle it. I could imagine formatting images for six blogs is tough.
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Thanks for the plugin. It works fine for me.
Why The Default Image doesn’t work on me? I was tried to follow the instructions.
feir — Cool. I’m glad it’s working out for you.
@Justin
Why the default Image doesn’t work on me? I was tried on version 0.3 It’s didn’t work when there are no image available.
Please help and thanks for the wonderful plugins
Jauhari — Please take note of my policy on plugin support. This is mentioned in the post itself and within the plugin’s
readme.htmlfile.@justin
I am sorry about it, I will go to support forum.
Thanks
whow!! Nice plugin. And i specially like these new features you have included, great job justin. Thank you.
Deleted for wasting Justin’s time, space, and energy.
CG — First, let’s get a few things straight. This is my personal blog. How I choose to run it is up to me. There is not some form of a democracy here. What I say goes. I do value others’ opinions, but stating opinions without knowing all of the facts are meaningless here and will not be tolerated.
I have decided to delete your comments because they have not been productive to the overall discussion here.
With that said, version 0.3 has a bug in it that is noted on the plugin’s page, which you reported. This was the first moment I knew about the bug, and I thank you for pointing it out. I will not go about updating all of my blog posts about the Get the Image plugin with this information. I don’t have the time for it. Known issues will stay on the official plugin page.
Now, this discussion is over. Any further comments on the matter will be discarded.