plugins : automatic image resizing

Posted on April 7, 2007
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Plugins that save you time are some of the most useful. This plugin makes handling images much easier, and is particularly useful if your WordPress theme suffers from layout problems if the main content column is over-wide due to large images. Sometimes the sidebar will wrap below the main column, rather to the side, because there is no room for it on the side due to the wider content.

This plugin deals with this issue by allowing you to set a maximum width and height for images used in your posts. This would be set to the maximum allowed by your layout, meaning the problem should never happen. It does this in one of two ways:

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I’ve included the above screengrab of the options page to give a feel for how well presented and clearly explained thesetup options are. Many a plugin has failed because the help at this stage is unclear. The install and setup was clear, quick and straightforward. I’m not using it on this blog (too control freaky), though I’ve tested it on a couple of others and the resize works well, gives clear crisp resized pics, and saving the bloggers time when featuring large screenshots.

The future 

One idea for future versions would be to create a third option, basically maintaining both a resized version and the original on the server, and adding a link to the original full size image. This would allow me, for example, to upload a single full screen grab of a theme and drop this into my post full size and let this plugin do the rest. Saving a round trip to photoshop for every post would be valuable for a lot of people.

Download and more information at SolDesign.

Another useful resource at the SolDesign site is this CSS conversion for email utility. Most email packages hate seperate stylesheets, so inline CSS is the way to go. This utility eats your stylesheet and html and spits out email ready inline css formatted html. Amazingly useful if you need to email pretty content on a regular basis.

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Comments

5 Responses to “plugins : automatic image resizing”

  1. Aaron on April 7th, 2007 9:30 am

    That’s a useful tool. I’m not a big fan of Google’s Blogger platform but one thing it does beat WordPress hands down on is the way it handles images.

    I’ve been waiting for someone to create a plugin which emulates the Blogger way of doing images and this is a step in the right direction.

  2. Ernst on April 15th, 2007 12:30 pm

    Have installed the plugin and it shows and “works” on the option page, but when I try to upload a picture the field where I click upload dissapears( Only white) and there is no code comming up in the post field. I have tried with different users and with Yes and No selected in “Permanently resize…. on the option page.

    What can be the problem?

  3. Ernst on April 15th, 2007 12:34 pm

    I now see that the file actually gets uploaded. the problem is that I´m setting up this WP site for many users and it would be nice to make it as simple as possible for the Authors to post. Do you have any suggestions?

  4. The wordpress guy on April 16th, 2007 12:50 am

    I’ll run another test on another site I run and see if I can reproduce. I don’t have this problem on the current installs I have. Do you have any other plugins running that alter the post page?

  5. Ernst on April 16th, 2007 1:50 am

    I have a Easy Inline SWF, FLV Embed and a Quicktime Embed. Hummm? Thanks alot!

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