[theme-reviewers] TimThumb

[Marty Martin]

TimThumb is from the devil.

Seriously, as someone who hosts a lot of WP sites... TimThumb is a
nightmare.

Marty

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> So, here's all I can really determine that TimThumb offers, that can't be
> accomplished through use of core Post Thumbnails functionality: image
> filters <http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/2010/08/timthumb-image-filters/>.
>
> I can see image filtering being useful for Theme designs.
>
> But, should we be checking to ensure that Themes aren't just using TimThumb
> to make thumbnails (which should be done using the core Post Thumbnail
> functionality)?
>
> Chip
>
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>
>> I'm completely unfamiliar with TimThumb. What is it, and what does it do?
>>
>> It looks to me like it's just an image thumbnailer/resizer - which is
>> exactly what core Post Thumbnails does.
>>
>> So, should we even be allowing new Themes to be using TimThumb? Does it do
>> something that can't be accomplished with the core functionality?
>>
>> Chip
>>
>>  On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Gene Robinson <emhr at submersible.me>wrote:
>>
>>>  I don't use tim-thumb but two themes I just reviewed were using it.
>>> I'll have to go back and look into them regarding this. The tickets were:
>>> Sriwijaya <http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1333>  and Syailendra<http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1428>. Also
>>> could someone look at my final comment on Syailendra<http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/query?keywords=~theme-syailendra> as
>>> I am unsure if Chris is cc'd on this ticket by simply commenting.
>>>
>>> You are welcome to assign me another theme if you like. When is training
>>> complete or is there a milestone to reach?
>>>
>>> -Gene(emhr)
>>>
>>> On Oct 12, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Edward Caissie wrote:
>>>
>>> @Gene -
>>>
>>> Around the end of August several themes were noted to be using an older
>>> version of timthumb that had a potentiall security issue associated with the
>>> code as it was written. The timbthumb script itself was corrected before
>>> then but there were still older versions in use on some repository themes.
>>>
>>> If you are using timthumb you can get the current version here if need
>>> be: http://code.google.com/p/timthumb/
>>>
>>>
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