[theme-reviewers] Post formats

[michael at mfields.org]

One of the most useful features of TimThumb IMO is it's ability to
regenerate image sizes on the fly. This functionality is not offered in
core although there are hooks provided to enable custom resizing. One of
the best implementations of this can be found in this plugin:

http://austinmatzko.com/wordpress-plugins/filosofo-custom-image-sizes/

-Mike

> When we asked the question the first time, the only response that we got,
> with respect to functionality that could not be handled by core WordPress
> Post Thumbnail functionality, was creating Thumbnails of external images.
> I
> think that this use case is enough of a niche that it is an exception, and
> one that should not dictate the rule.
>
> All other functionality within TimThumb can be implemented using core
> WordPress Post Thumbnail functionality, as far as I can tell.
>
> Chip
>
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Edward Caissie
> <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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".
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Cais.
>>
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