[theme-reviewers] TimThumb

[Chip Bennett]

Fair enough - but should a *Theme* (as opposed to a *Plugin* - by
definition, not dependent upon a given Theme) be controlling a site's
CDN/caching?

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Gene Robinson <emhr at submersible.me> wrote:

> Not every use case involves image leeching. What about Amazon S3 linking?
> That is one very large reason for having an external post thumbnail
> capability.
>
> Gene
>
> On Oct 12, 2010, at 4:16 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:
>
> > External image as Post Thumbnail? Hotlinking images = bad. :)
> >
> > It's true: the core Post Thumbnail functionality requires the image to
> exist in the WordPress database.
> >
> > What's the use-case for needing external images as Post Thumbnails?
> >
> > (And doesn't that require PHP to have allow_url_fopen() enabled? That's
> not usually the default setting, is it?)
> >
> > Chip
>
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