Description
Hwinote iCatch Editor adds a modal editor to the WordPress post edit screen. It lets you create a featured image while previewing the final canvas.
Main features include:
- Image size presets and custom canvas sizes.
- Background image upload, clipboard image paste, background color mode, zoom, and position adjustment.
- Title text customization, drag positioning, resizing, and rotation.
- Rectangles, circles, arrows, lines, text boxes, speech bubbles, and pasted image layers.
- Layer controls, duplication, delete, bring forward, send backward, snapping, guide lines, Undo / Redo, and reset actions.
- Pre-save checks before generating and saving the featured image.
- English-based UI with bundled Japanese translation files.
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Installation
- Upload the plugin folder to
/wp-content/plugins/, or install the ZIP file from the WordPress admin plugin screen. - Activate the plugin from the Plugins screen.
- Open a post or page edit screen.
- Use the “Hwinote iCatch Editor” box to open the modal editor.
- Generate and save the image to set it as the featured image.
FAQ
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Does this plugin require an external API?
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No. The current editor generates the image in the browser and saves it through WordPress Ajax.
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What image format is saved?
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The generated featured image is saved as PNG.
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Can I paste images from the clipboard?
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Yes. Open the modal editor and use the paste button or Ctrl/Command + V, depending on browser support.
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Is the plugin multilingual?
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Yes. The plugin uses an English-based UI and includes Japanese
.poand.motranslation files.
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Contributors & Developers
“Hwinote iCatch Editor” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
1.4.1
- Renamed the plugin to Hwinote iCatch Editor with the requested slug hwinote-icatch-editor.
- Updated the text domain, file names, and uniquely prefixed declarations and Ajax hooks.
- Removed the unnecessary load_plugin_textdomain() call for WordPress.org distribution.
1.4.0
- Polished the shape toolbar icons, including centered duplicate and CSS-rendered arrow icons.
- Updated Tested up to to WordPress 7.0.
- Added wp_unslash() before sanitizing POST values.
- Improved translated modal output by using directly escaped strings instead of modal-wide replacement output.
- Removed remaining Japanese-only source comments.
1.3.0
- Changed the admin UI base language from Japanese to English.
- Added Japanese translation files.
- Localized PHP and JavaScript UI strings, including Ajax messages.
- Updated the readme to an English WordPress.org-ready format.
1.2.0
- Added and refined the modal canvas editor with tabbed controls.
- Added rectangles, circles, arrows, lines, text boxes, speech bubbles, pasted image layers, layer ordering, duplication, and delete controls.
- Added background image zoom and position controls, background color mode, snapping, guide lines, reset actions, and pre-save checks.
- Added Undo / Redo controls and moved them to the modal footer for easier access.
- Improved inline text editing and horizontal / vertical text handling.
1.1.0
- Improved featured image generation from the post edit screen.
- Added image size presets, custom canvas sizes, title styling, drag positioning, resizing, and rotation.
- Improved saving generated PNG files as WordPress media attachments and setting them as featured images.
1.0.0
- Initial release.