WordPress.org

Author: Dario Ferrer (@metacortex)

With WP Smart Image you can:

• Choose the image to show throught a friendly widget in your post editor.
• Choose between the four presets WordPress sizes: Thumbnail, Medium, Large and Full.
• Link the image to the article or leave it without a link.
• Showing images in the posts list, even if those images are not setting to appear in the content.
• Get the image url instead of the whole tag.
• Personalize the alt and title attributes if they haven't been configured yet.
• Add custom CSS classes and ID to properly handling the images through CSS, javascript, PHP and others web resources.
• Add a link to the full version of the image from the thumbnail or the medium size one.
• Add "width" and "height" attributes in CSS or HTML ways.
• Personalize the generic images and its paths for all the sizes.
• Add and define attributes to image's links, as "rel", "class", "id" and "target".
• Choose between "echo" the function or pass it through PHP parameters.
• Show/hide thumbnails in RSS feeds.
• Integrate the power of both WP Smart Image and Max Image Size Control plugins.
• Show random images per post instead of only one.
• ... And combining all this options as you wish!

What is Wp Smart Image?

WP Smart Image is the tool that combines the best image managment functionalities in WordPress and handles them to facilitate it's use.

If you are used to personalized fileds to assign images to posts, with WP Smart Image 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.

But what's the problem with Wordpress native image engine?

No problem. The WordPress image engine is one of the most advanced and flexible ones at the moment. 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.

What isn't Wp Smart Image?

It is not a filter that works inside the content. WP Smart Image 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.

Enjoy designing!

Localization

• French (fr_FR) - Valentin
• Russian (ru_RU) - Fat Cow
• Spanish (es_ES) - Dario Ferrer

If you have been translated this plugin into your language, please let me know.