Title: Timthumb Alternative
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Timthumb Alternative

 *  Resolved [Doug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicoblog/)
 * (@nicoblog)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timthumb-alternative-1/)
 * Hello there!
    I think some might agree timthumb is not the best way to generate
   thumbnails. So searching alternatives i found a very interesting article about
   the vt_resize function, which i think it’s an awesome alternative to timthumb.
   I am no coder so i don’t dare to modify this plugin to see if it works but i 
   think it wouldn’t be too hard to implement to Ajay.
 * Here the article explaining how this functions work and how to use it:
    [http://academe.co.uk/2013/08/resizing-of-images-in-wordpress-from-within-a-template/](http://academe.co.uk/2013/08/resizing-of-images-in-wordpress-from-within-a-template/)
 * I think it would be a big plus for this plugin, but not sure if it’s even possible
   to do. I know Ajay is always looking to improve this plugin so i figure asking
   wouldn’t hurt.
 * Thanks for reading!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/top-10/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/top-10/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/)
 * (@ajay)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timthumb-alternative-1/#post-4640310)
 * Hi, thanks for the suggestion. The tutorial above actually uses some deprecated
   functions in WordPress.
 * I’ve got another alternative called [BFI_Thumb](http://bfintal.github.io/bfi_thumb/)
   which I plan to implement subsequently.
 *  Thread Starter [Doug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicoblog/)
 * (@nicoblog)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timthumb-alternative-1/#post-4640327)
 * Wow that sounds great! Thanks for your hard work on this plugin!
 *  Plugin Author [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/)
 * (@ajay)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timthumb-alternative-1/#post-4640336)
 * You’re welcome
 *  [dtmp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtmp/)
 * (@dtmp)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timthumb-alternative-1/#post-4640603)
 * Where are you on implementing this? All the talk about how bad timthumb is makes
   me nervous.
 *  Plugin Author [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/)
 * (@ajay)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timthumb-alternative-1/#post-4640604)
 * Timthumb isn’t bad, in my opinion. However, Ben is no longer supporting it.
 * I’m rewriting Top 10 massively which would be in the next few weeks.
 *  Plugin Author [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/)
 * (@ajay)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timthumb-alternative-1/#post-4640610)
 * I’ve released v2.0 which adds an alternate to Timthumb via pre-registered image
   times or your own custom image type.
 * Timthumb support will be removed in v2.1

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