Ben
Ben is a lifelong Nintendo fan who likes to build websites, and make video games. He buys way too much Lego.
WordPress and Games
Having post thumbnails is fantastic, they really liven up a post, but until recently one of the best ways to do this was to use my image resize script, TimThumb. Loads of sites use it, but now that the_post_image function has been announced it may become redundant.
Initially I thought it was great – it will make WordPress theme authors lives easier – but after mulling it over I realized there are some fundamental features missing:
Don’t get me wrong, I think the addition is fantastic, especially for those who don’t want to spend time working out how to do it the ‘hard’ (aka custom) way, and I am sure many will use it. However from a personal point of view I will be taking the function apart to see what I can learn, but within my themes I will continue using a combination of my custom code and TimThumb.