<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
3) Use of TimThumb prohibited (*required* not to use, even for backward compatibility). If we go this route, I will volunteer to put together a tutorial for how to migrate TimThumb-generated images using custom fields over to the WordPress media manager.</blockquote>
</div><br>There are uses for TimThumb other than backward compatibility in some themes. To the best of my knowledge they are not in the repository yet, but they are being considered. I would temper that point with "not to be used for direct backward-compatibility of post_thumbnail" or something to that effect.<br>
<br>TimThumb (current and security-safe) versions may be the most optimal way of integrating other third party functionality. Something to consider before making it "prohibited".<br><br>I think a tutorial on "how to migrate TimThumb-generated images using custom fields over to the
WordPress media manager." would also be very useful to have.<br><br>I still need to read through more items, but the TimThumb issue strikes me as a sensitive subject. I want to get it right the first time it goes into the guidelines rather that having multiple re-writes on it.<br>
<br><br>Cais.<br>