Developers of free plugins still have some responsibility to either pull their “crap” down off the web, or take one minute to tune in to the compatibility as new versions of WP are developed. It’s a common courtesy, rather than wasting people’s time. Let me go learn .php and I’ll get back to you (give me a break).
Developers of free plugins still have some responsibility to either pull their “crap” down off the web, or take one minute to tune in to the compatibility as new versions of WP are developed. It’s a common courtesy, rather than wasting people’s time. Let me go learn .php and I’ll get back to you (give me a break).
While I agree that many plugins lack the polish that could make them dead simple to use, there are a couple of things to consider; 1) You get what you pay for, and 2) The FYI on this particular plugin is listed as Compatible up to: 2.6.2. It’s compatibility in 2.7.x is not guaranteed.
Hi People, I’ve also come across a few problems when installing this plugin, but that was mostly when running on an old PHP installation. I have to say it’s pretty well-coded and thought through actually. The thing is that WP Post Thumbnail requires a few things from your PHP server (Like a recent PHP install and GD support), and requires that your folders are CHMOD-ed the right way. I actually love the fact that I can create multiple thumbnails per post through an XML file. The plugin doesn’t collide with running JQuery libraries, and don’t forget it is still in version 0.1. Version 0.2 looks very promising actually.
Other than that I wish to add: If you don’t like the PHP “crap – plugins”, don’t use them. Or even better, make them work the way you want to, solve the bugs and help improve it.
how exactly do you get the thumbnails to show up in the post? I see the preset1 thumb on the main blog page but I’m not sure how to implement them within the post.
Once you get the thumbnail in the post, can you click on it to enlarge it?
Does anyone know if there is a way to stop the plugin from optimizing the images? I’d love to use this (nice and simple for clients) but even when I set the jpeg quality parameter to 100 the final images quality is still compromised.
eggnog, I’ve found that to get a reasonable result you have to give the plugin high quality jpegs to work with, for example 90%-100% compression only in Photoshop save to web, and then set the compression level of the plugin to 90%.
Alternatively you can use pngs, which it seems to work much better with, but you have to use PNG-8s, as it doesn’t seem to support the transparency of PNG-24.
