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Image Editor: Featured Image field in Quick Editor

Jess G. — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:56:25 +0000

On that note, why not add a Featured Image field to the Quick Editor?

I bet there’s a plugin for that.

WordPress Feature Request: Extend the Image Editor

Jess G. — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:37:09 +0000

One feature I would like to see in either 3.4 or 3.5: additional hooks that allow a developer to extend the Image Editor.

The Image Editor was introduced in WordPress 2.9, and was a pretty awesome feature. It still is, but I have one complaint: it’s not extendable. At least not in any way that I’ve been able to find from reviewing the source code. It’s actually a shame, really. It’s like the Image Editor was just dropped in and forgotten. A part of that complaint, is that unlike the Scissors plugin (which — from I remember reading at the time — the Image Editor was based on) which allows you to edit any of the available thumbnail sizes, the Image Editor gives you an all-or-nothing option.

Being able to tweak each thumbnail individually is an important feature and it’s too bad that it was left out. Sure, I could use Scissors but I really don’t like Scissors’ interface. There is already a post on WordPress.org’s Extend/Ideas forum on this very subject, though it was last updated about 4 months ago.

That being said, with development on 3.4 currently starting, it might be worthwhile to see if modifications to the Image Editor can be made to allow it to be extended. The next question would be what parts can be extended, and what can’t be extended. Hey, all it takes are a few well-placed hooks!

WP Plugin: Thumbnail Updater

Jess G. — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:48:38 +0000

WordPress 2.9 came with a number of nice new features, specifically the ability to assign thumbnails to posts, and to specify the size of those thumbnails by using functions like add_image_size() in your theme’s functions.php file. Unfortunately, add_image_size() isn’t backwards compatible, meaning that any images that were uploaded before the new sizes were created will not have a corresponding thumbnail. Instead, WordPress will grab the size that most closely matches the post thumbnail size, which is not always ideal.

I created a plugin called Thumbnail Updater to address this problem. Thumbnail Updater adds a button to the Edit Media page for each image that says “Update Image Sizes.” Just click the button to update your thumbnails—it can take a while depending on the size of the images and the server speed.

*new* Download: Thumbnail Updater 1.0

Download: Thumbnail Updater 0.1-beta