[theme-reviewers] Post formats

[Chip Bennett]

There are great plugins (such as Regenerate
Thumbnails<http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/>)
for on-the-fly Thumbnail resizing - which, realistically, should only be
required when a new Theme is installed.

That said, while I'm fairly confident that we can find/propose workable
alternatives for almost any reason given for using TimThumb, I have no
problem with letting Theme Authors offer such reasons. So, I think you've
got a good working basis for a Guideline.

Chip

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> I agree that post_thumbnail() for the most part should be handling image
> thumbnails, but as you noted there are exceptions which would preclude
> TimThumb from being prohibited. The basis I am working from is if the code
> could be caught and stopped by the upload script in a perfect world then in
> our imperfect world it would be a required item. Since there are exceptions
> to the rule when TimThumb could be viable then it should be noted as such.
>
> I would suggest, we put it forward along the lines of: if TimThumb is being
> used within a theme then it should be explained why it is required over the
> core functionality of post_thumbnail().  No explanation, no approval; and,
> of course, the explanation has to be sensible. The explanation has to be
> somewhere reasonable as well, which brings another item: the 'readme.txt'
> file inclusion. Another item for 3.1 ... and likely another thread for
> clarity of discussion.
>
>
> Cais.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>
>> 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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