Archive for the ‘TimThumb’ Category
TimThumb is a free image cropping and resizing script, design with simplicity and ease of use in mind. You can download TimThumb from Google Code
Using TimThumb Part 4: Moving the Crop Location
Moving the crop position around is by far the most popular feature that has been requested for TimThumb. And today it has been officially released!
To be honest the cropping code was something I had put off as I wanted to keep things nice and easy to use; but then a month ago I found a comment on the TimThumb Google Code page that gave me a nice simple method for adding the alignment code.
Using TimThumb Part 3: Image Filters
So far I have documented the basic TimThumb functionality, and how to resize images that are on external domains and now things can get interesting. In this part I will talk about some of the features that have been available for a while, but never officially documented - Image Filters.
Image FiltersWhen I talk about image filters I mean the types of effects you can get in Photoshop or most other image ...
Using TimThumb Part 2: External Websites
Of all the TimThumb feature requests the most popular are being able to crop an image from a specified location, and being able to load images from external websites. Resizing images from external images was added at the start of 2010 and seems to be working really well.
Like all things TimThumb I tried to make it as easy as possible to use the external images feature, however I had to keep security ...
Using TimThumb part 1: Getting Started
TimThumb has always been built with simplicity in mind. However there are a few things it can do that have not been exposed before.
Inspired by a comment from RBhavesh I have decided to write a series of posts in which I will show you how TimThumb should be used - and introduce some new functionality.
In this post I will discuss the basic usage of the script - the minimum parameters to ...
How to Make TimThumb Work With WordPress mu
TimThumb is a popular image resizing script that was created for Mimbo Pro - but it's never worked properly with WordPress MU, so I wanted to change that.
The reason it doesn't work is quite simple. Because of the way WordPress MU runs multiple blogs it uses a server rewrite rule to point to media uploads. This in turn means that the file paths for the images do not ...
TimThumb Beta Test
A couple of weeks ago I posted a brief history of TimThumb, the image resizing script I am responsible for. I said in the conclusion that I was looking for beta testers, and I am, however I have been a bit slack at sending out the script to the people who ask.
So, I thought I would upload it for everyone to download so that we can give it to a ...
A Brief History of TimThumb
When we were building Mimbo Pro - Darren came up with the idea of automating the image thumbnail resizing.
This was all part of making the theme site as easy as possible to maintain. Initially it was based loosely on phpThumb stripping out all the fluff and making it nice and streamlined.
Development was started by Tim ...
