Images are used in different ways by WordPress.You can use a theme with images in layout, place images within your post/page content, display images next to visitor's name called avatars etc
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How can I add an image upload field directly to a custom write panel?
I've added a new page under "Pages" in the wordpress admin, and added several custom fields. I'd also like to be able to add an upload image field to the page editor - is there some way to do this via ...
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User-friendly cropping of post thumbnails?
Is there a way to let my users define the crop area of a post thumbnail? The thumbnails always are existing post attachments, I would rather not create an extra attachment per thumbnail.
The post ...
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Filter to remove image dimension attributes?
I'm working on a site based on a fluid width css template which sets a max-width on images to the width of the column containing them, and I need to remove the inline width and height dimension ...
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Restricting Users to View Only Media Library Items They Have Uploaded?
I want users to be able to upload photos using add_cap('upload_files') but in their profile page, the Media Library shows every image that's been uploaded. How can I filter that so that they can only ...
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Creating an Image-Centric Custom Post Type?
Does anyone have any tips for creating an image-centric custom post type?
To elaborate, my blog has rotating header images, shown below:
The two images in the top left are randomized, and exist as ...
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How To Retrieve An Image Attachment's Alt Text?
I am using an attachment.php file to show large versions of images that have been clicked on elsewhere. I'd like to pull the image alt text as a caption under the image with javascript, but the alt ...
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Resizing images to the actual size used in the editor?
Is there a way to resize images to the actual size they will be shown in the post? I have users that import a large image and then resize it in the visual editor. This is easy, since they can just ...
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How to automatically add rounded corners to thumbnails?
I want to created automatically rounded corner thumbnails for a particular project I'm working on, using something like this: ...
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How can you set maximum width for original images?
Case:
I have a client that doesn't know much about the digital world. However what she does know is how to get the photo's from her camera on to the computer and in WordPress. However she doesn't know ...
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How can I make add_image_size() crop from the top?
I have a series of posts, all with featured images, but I need to be able to customise the crop top right corner. In this instance, I need them to be cropped from top right, but it would be useful to ...
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What's the best way to use the Featured Image for responsive web design?
I have a brilliant idea and since WordPress already takes care of some of the work, I just need to find a good method to make this work.
I am working on a project that needs to be responsive to all ...
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What is a good alternative to using $content_width for image optimization?
The $content_width GLOBAL in WordPress effects many themes and even some plugins by limiting the size of images and embeds in posts, it is a requirement for themes submitted to wordpress.org.
It is ...
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How does WP media uploader create the 3 different sized images, and how can I duplicate it
I have finally!! got this thing I've tried about 12 times to make and 12 different ways, but finally got it to work,... sort of.
I made a custom metabox for uploading and attaching images to posts, ...
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Minimum Dimensions Requirement for Featured Image?
I am creating a baseball website with multiple Authors. From past experience, no matter how well you know someone personally, it doesn't mean they will follow or even read your instructions.
That ...
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Can I attach image to post without adding it to post?
another question about image.
Can I add/attach images to post without adding it to post? The reason behind this is so that I can manipulate it whatever I want using API.
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Adding Category/Tag/Taxonomy Support to Images/Media
I've been trying to add category, tag, or custom taxonomy support to images (or all media, though I'm only concerned with Images). I've got it part-way figured out with:
add_action('init', ...
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How to insert pictures without hard coded dimensions?
How can I insert pictures into a post without any hard coded dimensions (e.g. <img src="" alt="" /> instead of <img src="" alt="" width="" height="" />)? I don't want my users to switch to ...
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Changing JPEG compression depending on image size
Short. I want ''large' images compressed by 90%, and 'medium' to be by 60%. Has many af you know, sometimes larger images suffer from high compression, but other small images don't.
This function ...
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Add default Backgrounds
Is there code or a plugin that would make it possible to add default backgrounds, like you can with default headers in Twenty ten. Seems like the same frame work for backgrounds and headers.
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How to check if image is already stored in a site's post database? (network)
I currently have configured Wordpress so that a post can be copied to other sites within a Wordpress network. However, a post may be broadcast more than once, and I want to check if the image is ...
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Add an alignment option for images
A rare event - I want to do something in WordPress but have no idea how to go about it and searching turns up literally nothing.
When you're inserting an image into a post, you get alignment options: ...
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Media Upload Folder - how to manage
Situation :
When uploading an image via the media uploader, WP automatically makes at least 3 additional sizes, that comes to 4 images including the original one. Most of the time, the images will be ...
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Programmatically get images by URL and save in uploads folder
I am involved in a large migration from another CMS to WordPress. We have a copy of the database and have worked out how to extract the content and programmatically create WordPress posts from it ...
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what the best way to include images from the template's images folder?
what the best way to include images from the template's images folder? is it by using get_bloginfo('template_url')? I understood that its better to hard code the path to the images folder since this ...
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Masking wp-content/themes/name/images to just images directory using htaccess
I'm trying what I thought would be something really simple of masking my url but cannot seem to get it to work. I want to be able to link to images in my img tag without having to type in the full ...
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Add new image size to media uploader so users can insert into post?
I would like to create an additional size for uploaded images which my users can then "insert into post". I understand that add_image_size() will add a new image size which I can use in my theme, but ...
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Separate Media Library for each user
I'm creating a theme for a client and one of their requests is to allow users to upload images for their own use, but there may be an option to share the images.
Here are some of the caveats:
Each ...
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Remove images (files) that were generated when using add_image_size()
I have added an image size using this:
add_image_size('property-featured', 484, 393, true);
It's worked very well for the past year and has generated about 1GB of images in that size, but this ...
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Removing Image and Caption Dimension Attributes
This question is an offshoot from the this discussion on removing dimension attributes from images. The solution code provided on that thread works very well except that it has the unfortunate side ...
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Uploading Images in the Link Manager
In /wordpress/wp-admin/link-add.php there is the possibility to add an image to a link, but it belongs to the category "Advanced" and is really a little too advanced for an average user, which needs ...
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WP 3.5 and Galleries - how to count images?
I'm trying to figure out how to count and display the number of images in a gallery with WP 3.5. I was following an old post on Ottopress, querying the DB for attachments but it seems the galleries ...
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Delete the original big size image after upload and leave only 3 images crunched by media gallery
I need to know is it possible to somehow erase the original image uploaded via Gravity form : post image - post field?! With the situation now I receive 4 images. 1 original (can be whatever user has ...
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Add existing images from Media Library in to custom gallery
I have [gallery] inside the post, and I'm interested in a way to add already existing images from media library in to this gallery? once I trying add any image I have only one option - insert into ...
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is it possible to replace the use of gd_lib with imagick or ImageMagick?
i'm looking around for a solution since weeks and can't make anything work yet. the problem is that my server is running debian/lenny and it's not supporting the bundled gd_lib which i need for ...
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Upload images to remote server
I am using Wordpress media uploader to upload images and I was wondering if there is a way to make it upload to my remote server instead of my local server? Example: My wordpress blog is hosted on ...
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Disable image attachment links
Is there a way to disable image attachment links trought a filter in functions.php or something ? I know it's possible to do it manually when you add an image to a post but I want to disable this ...
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New image size version only for the Featured Image file
I'm worried about too many files created when adding a new image size.
All uploaded files will generate the new size, I need a specific image size only for the file set as Fetured image, is there ...
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How to resize images in wordpress without adding any compression or changing the color profile of the images, possible?
As you can guess from the title, Im looking for a solution that allows me to alter the way Wordpress processes/saves its newly created images according to the media settings in the dashboard. This is ...
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Using Image insert control in code
I am adding additional pages to wordpress backend and I would like to use the built-in image uploader and browser. I couldn't find any examples on how to add it to my form.
Assuming that I have a ...
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Retina images - custom syntax for inserting images into post content
I am currently in the process of building a responsive real estate WordPress theme and I'm figuring out how to properly add support for HiDPI screens. I decided to use a JavaScript solution ...
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Navigate with keyboard in Gallery shortcode
I am using Wordpress Gallery shortcode and I was wondering if there is a way to navigate using the arrow keys? Like if I view an single image and used the right arrow to navigate to the next image in ...
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Auto-modifying original [full size] images
Is there a way to make WordPress process Full size images, which by default it leaves unmodified?
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wp_get_attachment_image_src problem
I'm have a problem with the wp_get_attachment_image_src function returning the incorrect url for an image.
My code looks like this:
$image_main_ar = wp_get_attachment_image_src( $image_ID, ...
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What are people using for displaying Image / Media copyright information?
I have tried the 'Image Credit' plugin but it seems flaky (possibly due to interaction with other plugins). What are other people using? The requirement is for each image used to have an associated ...
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Show two different sized featured images on homepage
I would like to have two different sized featured images on my homepage. I currently have all featured images set to 280x200. I would like to have SOME posts on the home page display a larger ...
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Stop wordpress from hardcoding img width and height attributes
I'm wondering if there's a simple way top stop WordPress automatically hardcoding featured image height and width attributes, other than using regex...
As I'm using a flexible grid for my project ...
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Any easy way to automatically set the first inline image in a post as the thumbnail?
Is there a plugin for this? Has anyone done it before?
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Automating a Daily Picture Blog?
I was wondering if anyone could give me some suggestions on how best I could streamline the following;
I have a WordPress blog (privately hosted) which I update daily (well, I normally schedule a ...
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Getting post-thumbnails from another WP site
I have two WordPress installations, one at http://inversekarma.in and the other at http://inversekarma.in/photos. The latter is a photoblog, and its theme uses the standard WP post thumbnails (EDIT: ...
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Impose a Maximum Limit on Image upload size
Clients have been uploading huuuge images, then complaining that the server is running out of memory.
Ofcourse one could bump the amount of memory, but this just introduces an arms race.
What hooks ...
