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What is your take: TimThumb vs. WordPress Thumbnails? The great debate

Can you explain to me why timthumb is much better than WP image resizer inside wp core function?

Any other image manipulation script?

thanks

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Its some what of an old (bad) habit of developers from back when WordPress did not have thumbnail functionality or the add_image_size() function that can be used to create custom image size.

The only thing that timthumb does better is side to side cropping instead of the WordPress built-in center box cropping.

Don't get me wrong timtumb is still good but needs a little work for better security with that being said there is a new fork called WordThumb which works in the same way but without the vulnerability.

and if you are looking for a total different approach alternative then check out phpThumb

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  • Aren't those arguments that you pass as href a vulnerability too? I mean anyone can mess with your server CPU by requesting resizing of the same image like 2353253265226 times, running filters on it and what not
    – onetrickpony
    Commented Aug 5, 2011 at 22:17

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