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Would you recommend this hack over the arthemia template method?
It utilizes timthumb but this seems to be lighter and does not require the custom field. Will this work if i don’t upload images in wordpress?
I would like to have an image folder on my server instead of uploading in wordpress.

Here is another way to display thumbnails, I dint use the automatic resize script as it will be additional load on server.

http://swiftthemes.com/2009/10.....ess-theme/

I agree with your mind, thanks for your methods, I will use this code in my blog.

Hey Fikri, we implemented this over at http://OnThisIsland.com but it landed us in two hot pots… Firstly the database was being battered everytime the index page or category pages were loaded. Secondly the single file timpthumb.php was being accessed hundreds of times simultaneously, leading to high loads and complaints from our host.

To fix this, we simply editted the timpthumb.php file to save the cached thumbnails name as a custom field automatically, and slightly adjusted the code from wprecipe to first check for the cached thumbnail before generating a new one using timthumb.php

This speeded up the loading of the main pages immensely… for more info check the post here : http://inztinkt.com/blog/2009/.....ur-server/

Hope this helps

It seems like there’s always something new being released related to Wordpress, and it’s so great to see so much work being done on a great open-source blogging platform.

Thanks for this post, it’s help me to create thumb without using custom fields.
great sharing Fikri

I am very much a newbie compared to your other posters. My theme (from Elegant Themes) already uses timthumb.php so I’ve been doing the custom field approach. I inserted the code into functions.php, but then got a little nervous on implementing the rest.

Is there a way to do your hack in combination with code that is pulling thumbnails from the custom field. For example, can I add the code to the “if” statement “// if there’s not a thumbnail”? Here’s the thumbnail code currently inside the loop:

<a href="” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to “><img src="/timthumb.php?src=&h=120&w=120&zc=1&q=100″ width=”120px” height=”120px” alt=”" />

Any advice you have would really be appreciated! I dread going back and adding custom fields to my old posts as it takes away time from adding new content!

Thanks,
Melanie

That didn’t work either. Can someone email me? I don’t know how to paste the php code in a comments field so all of it appears. Ugggh!

I don’t know how to Create php file and where to paste in the function Php files. My function php files already have some…..
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register_sidebar(array(‘name’=>’sidebar2′));
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My question is where I have to paste the source code in the function php files. is it with in the loop or outside the loop.

@Fikri – Thank you so much for this great solution! It worked perfectly, and it allowed me to streamline on the number of plugins. The other really good part, is that it generated thumbnails on the fly that I did not create previously, because I turned that off in WP. We’ll see how the new WP 2.9 feature will compare to this.

@Angelica – very cool, thanks!!

Very helpful! I’m using a theme that already has TimThumb integrated so I’m good to go!

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Lovely post! helped me lot ! thanks

Is there a chance that the function getImage() could return the height of the pic ? Am no php developper but i’d need this function. Thanks.

Although Wordpress 2.9.1 have new feature to do it simple, your post gimme some new ideas. thanks

Although this approach has been phased by WP 2.9’s thumbnail capability, we can still take something home from that PHP code.

Thanks for taking the time to write it

Thanks for this grat tip, I just tried it out and it workes great