News: As of version 0.18, Image Pro Plugin works on Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Please update and enjoy!
Image Pro WordPress plugin is a totally different approach to Image and Media management in WordPress. Now you can easily add, edit, resize, remove images. It fully replaces WordPress image upload system with a completely new one, which is faster and more fun to use.
Already know what it does and want it? Download it here! (please, read readme.txt first)
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Check the video below (2 minutes) to see exactly what this plugin can do for you.
Ideal for content editors with limited IT knowledge, but also a powerful tool for web developers and bloggers, this plugin helps you do the following:
- view and manage all media files on in WordPress
- drag and drop media upload (directly from your desktop)
- drag and drop media from the media panel to the post to insert an image
- smoothly resize any image in the post (real server-side resize, not just changing the width of the img tag like WordPress does)
- save time by spending less time attaching files and resizing images and more time creating quality content for your site/blog
So, … what does Image Pro plugin look like?
1 – This is the media library. It is at any time visible when editing a post or a page. It can be searched for certain file names and filtered by certain file types.
2 – Selected image properties. It expands whenever you click an image in the post and allows you to set different properties
Upload files? Drag drop them from your Desktop!
Just drag any image, document, flv, swf file from your desktop inside the media manager, and it will be automatically uploaded. You can also drag many files at once.
Add an image to a post and resize it
It’s simple. Just drag the image from the media library to the post directly! When you’ll drop the mouse, the image will be inserted.
After that, click on it and you’ll see the resize handlers. Use them to resize the image.
1 – Click on the image so it gets the resize handles. Also, when clicking, the “Selected image” panel expands in the right side of your post
2 – Drag the resize handles until you are satisfied with the image size. You will also see the current dimensions in the bottom-right corner of the image while dragging
3 – The image gets resized. You can repeat steps 1-3 anytime you want on any image.
Change image properties
Click the image. “Selected image” panel will appear to the right side of your post.
Align your image
1 – Align left: The image stays left, text stays right
2 – Align right: The image stays right, text stays left
3 – Align none: No text can stay near the image
I have to write this somewhere, so it might as well be here: The plugin is young, I’ve secured it as much as possible, but I cannot be made responsible for any losses or issues that may occur due to usage of this plugin! Everything on this page is offered “as it is”.
Languages/technologies/software used: WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery UI, File API
This is a revolutionary plugin for image manipulation. I`l recommend this plugin to replace the default WP image manipulation one.
This plug in was awesome and easy to use.
Apart from regular media gallery here
1. we can simply upload files by dragging them from PC into wordpress.
2. easily change the image without effecting the size and other aspects.
3. this is aligning perfectly which could be easier enough for any content writer
Finally,
Thanks a lot for the plugin.
Really, really, good.
Nice concept but what about linked images to the original and Featured image ??? Your concept is brilliant but some important features of WP are absent.
Hi Li-An.
Thank you for your suggestions. I’ve added them to my features list.
Firefox only??? I see that the wordpress page states: Firefox 5.0 (should work on any Firefox >= 3.6; it only works on Firefox!)
Will you be adding support for other browsers later on?
Hi.
I wanted to launched a functional plugin as early as possible, and that’s why I focused mainly on features. I’ll try and support other browsers in future. I believe that, as a content manager or admin, you are able to easily install Firefox.
Please keep in mind that WebKit (the browser engine behind Safari and Chrome) does not support the drag handles of the picture, so you cannot resize it from TinyMCE (or any other WYSIWYG editor). As my plugin highly revolves around this, that’s why it won’t work.
Internet Explorer, on the other hand, had some clicking issues inside the iframe for the moment.
I do understand, the issue is that everybody has a fixed set of browsers they are using, i.e. me, I have set up Chrome exactly the way I like and need it. To use your plugin I would have to switch between browsers since I am not going to completely move my working environment from Chrome to Firefox. A pity its not working in Chrome too
Is there a way to turn off the message the the plugin is not working for I.E and Crome users. I love the plugin but would like the warning message to go away in other browsers.
Sure, another user already asked me this and I replied him in a comment above. Just go to src/requirements.php, line 17, and replace it with “return true;”
Hi, I think this plugin is brilliant, I use safari, so when I need to use your plugin I will use firefox, but I cannot stand firefox, so I need to switch back and forth.
Is there a way that I can turn off that “NOT WORKING” message that appears on top of the WP control panel, its irritating the heck out of me, most plugins you can dismiss these messages.
Is it somewhere in the php files so I can just delete it?
Better yet, make it work in safari.
I have noticed a couple of bugs, nothing major, but, sometimes when I drag an image to the post, and then re size it, it pixelates. Then I delete it and try a few more times and it starts working again.
It would be nice to have the usual wordpress icons that normally hover over images that you insert, so that you could add meta and links and frames etc..
I think this plugin is so great, thanks so much for all your hard work!
XChrissy
Hi,
Thanks for your comment.
To turn off the browser support, go to src/requirements.php, line 17, and replace it with “return true;”
To show the default WordPress image buttons, just go to src/view/css/editor.css, line 79 and remove the rule “#wp_editbtns”
I’ve explained in the comment above why it won’t work on Safari (and Chrome). It’s basically a missing feature of the browser. However, I am looking to provide extended browser support, if possible.
oh, I just remembered another project I tested which also supported drag and drop, maybe you can see how they are doing it? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wplupload/
Hello, as I said earlier in my comments, it’s not the drag and drop that’s not supported. It’s the resize handles of the images. So basically Google Chrome & Safari (and any other WebKit browser) won’t show the resize handles near the image. Uploda is fine. But because drag handles are not implemented by WebKit, I had to make it unsupported for it.
If you just want to use it as an uploader, but not as a resizer, go to src/requirements.php, line 17, and replace it with “return true;”.
thanks that is good enough.
still have a look at the other plugin I linked to its got a few amazing features and supports HTML5, GEARS, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus and will fall back to regular HTML4 when no other option available. Besides its got chunking for uploads and client-size resize
I wasn’t advertising it since it doesn’t seem supported anymore rather than as an inspiration for you
Great plugin!
How to edit the CSS Class of each image? I add shadow effect on each image that’s defined as a css class.
Thanks!
My plugin hides the default WordPress image buttons, but if you go to src/view/css/editor.css, line 79 and remove that rule (#wp_editbtns), you will be able to see those buttons again, and use the properties button to open the full image properties. Then, click Advanced settings tab, and under Advanced image settings, use CSS class
Mihai, Thank you for creating such a useful plugin!! I love it! This may be a silly question but can you tell me where I can find the CSS file you reference? Is it part of the WP site itself, in the database, or in your plug-in? I can’t locate it.
Hi, all my css-related files are in
/your-blog-dir/wp-content/plugins/image-pro.../src/view/cssMihai.
This plugin looks great! I use WordPress mostly as a CMS and lots of clients ask if its possible to create some sort of gallery (for different post types).
Is it possible to attach multiple images to a post without putting them in the content?
Thanks!
Though this feature is not present, it’s really easy to achieve:
src/js/dragdropupload.js, line 93. Replacexhr.open('POST', this.url + "?name=" + file.fileName, true);withxhr.open('POST', this.url + "?name=" + file.fileName + '&id=' + jQuery('#post_ID').val(), true);Then, go to
src/request/upload.php, line 48. Replace$attach_id = wp_insert_attachment($attachment, $filename, 0);with$attach_id = wp_insert_attachment($attachment, $filename, intval($_GET['id']));In this way, any media you upload will be attached to the current post/page, even if not added to it.
Heads Up!
The instruction film on your website isn’t working!
Hi. The video presentation works fine, it is an embed from Vimeo. Make sure you either use a HTML 5 capable browser, or have the latest Flash Player plugin installed.
Hi,
I’ve just installed your plug in and activated it.
I can see no trace of it when I go to new posts.
I have checked the log and it reads as follows:
2011-07-28 16:54:08 – INFO –> When saving post id = , 0 thumbnails will require processing
2011-07-28 16:56:38 – ERROR –> [phpThumb] – “/home/theyr/public_html/wp-content/plugins/image-pro-wordpress-image-media-management-and-resizing-done-right/src/view/img/tif.png” does not exist
2011-07-28 16:57:34 – INFO –> When saving post id = , 0 thumbnails will require processing
2011-07-28 16:59:02 – ERROR –> [phpThumb] – “/home/theyr/public_html/wp-content/plugins/image-pro-wordpress-image-media-management-and-resizing-done-right/src/view/img/tif.png” does not exist
2011-07-28 16:59:36 – INFO –> When saving post id = , 0 thumbnails will require processing
2011-07-28 16:59:45 – ERROR –> [phpThumb] – “/home/theyr/public_html/wp-content/plugins/image-pro-wordpress-image-media-management-and-resizing-done-right/src/view/img/tif.png” does not exist
Can you help please?
Many thanks,
Mike
From what I see, you are trying upload a tif image. There’s nothing bad with it, but keep in mind that tiff can’t be resized with PHP. Not because of my plugin, but because PHP graphics library (GD).
However, it’s not that error that concerns me (it’s because i don’t have an icon for tiff files), but the INFO above. It seems somehow the plugin is unable to get your post id.
What version of WordPress are you using? If you don’t see the plugin at all, you should try clicking “Screen options” while editing the post and see whether “Available images” and “Selected image” are checked. If not, check them.
Nice plugin. I will try it today.
Regards,
Sandor
This is nice, but I feel it is seriously lacking by not having the ability to manually set an image width or height for the post. In my experience (and requirement) far more (repetitive consistency) is needed in the display sizes of images – than can be obtained by visual dragging & dropping.
Thanks for the feature idea. I will consider adding a resize box with input values.
Hello !
Great plugin, I love it but I have a feature idea.
I use Firefox browser with your plugin, but sometimes I have to use another browser.
I have read the comments here and seen that we can switch a lot of things to exclude messages and css tricks.
The idea to help a lot of users, is to put an option to make the plugin be always activated, but just “really working” with Firefox. Instead of just a message with other browsers, you can make the option automatically switch to the base wordpress system with a no compatible browser. So we can have the best of the used browser.
Thx a lot for attention and plugin !
Thanks for this feature idea. Added to the “features list”
thank you >>>>>>>
hi
I want to manage and foldering my media and I can t.
could you add this option to your plugin?
If you Do, please announce me from email
Thanks for your feedback. I will be thinking of adding a category/tagging system for the images.
I also kindly ask you to implement foldering (I was used to use ImageManager by Soderlind because of that). It would be great to be able to categorize images into folders.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Added it to the feature list.
Mihai.
I too would like folders. I went looking for a folder management system and ran across your plugin which I’ve installed and will gladly use… however I have too many images to just pile up in the uploads folder.
As an alternative, NextGen Gallery supports folders. If you could read the /uploads/gallery directory, that would allow me to manage my media via NextGen and use your tool for individual image/video placement.
Thanks
Hi John,
I’ve noted down your suggestion to my suggestions list
Thanks,
Mihai.
Good plugin – thanks.
3 comments:
+1 for file folders – I have tried other plugins but they don’t cover selcting images by folder from the Edit post screen etc.
Also – your plugin failed to install because the plugin folder name is far too long – once I had shortened it it did install.
Finally, if I go to Media Library , Edit Media screen pops up a dialogue window with just the message “undefined” and an OK button. Window disappears at that point, but something is wrong here!
(Using WordPress 3.5.1, no other plugins enabled)
Hi Chris!
1. When you say folders, do you refer to organize the pictures in folders?
2. Yes, but it only happens on Windows. Unfortunately that is not something I can change
3. Strange. If the message appears in the Image library, I do not think it is a Image Pro issue. What happens if you disable the plugin? Does the message persist?
I get the same ‘undefined’ error. Any idea what causes this?
Hi, Please provide a screenshot and more details about your setup.
Thanks,
Mihai.
Great application. It needs a category system to make it pretty near perfect IMHO.
This plugin looks great; Google Chrome also supports image drops, so you could probably extend support to that.
Also, the major feature that I would love to see and may try implementing myself is auto-resizing the images to a default max width / height. Or at least putting in the right menu the small / medium / large radios to quickly change the images size.
Great job though.
Thanks,
Google Chrome may support image drops, but it doesn’t support dragging handles.
Thank you for the feature requests.
Mihai.
Yes!! Many thanks for releasing your beautiful idea to the public Mihai!
It’s also got many new cool features now. =D
Maybe being able to add custom fields, like; “Photographer:” or “Creator:” or “Artist:”,
that could also be displayed as byline under a posted image would add to the awsomeness
of your fantastic plug-in.
Best wishes, and huge thanks again!! =D
Hi Mihai — After reading the comments, it sounds like this plugin uses the GD image library to do the resizing. Is that correct? I ask because I’m having a problem with the native WordPress image resizing whereby image quality and sharpness is reduced on resize. I assume your solution would yield the same results?
Hi Daniel,
Yes, my plugin uses GD for resizing. However, keep in mind that if GD would not be installed, resizing would not work at all, so perhaps it is a different problem. If not, please contact me through the contact form of the site and show me how the images look upon resizing, perhaps there is something I can do to help.
Thanks,
Mihai.
This looks to be a truly revolutionary plugin and magnificent improvement to the way WP works. We all love WP, but at the same time there are many areas where it drastically needs improvement… and image handling is one of them!
As a Safari guy who grudgingly uses Firefox when he has to, I’d love to see complete Safari (or even Chrome) integration too. Of course, I’m sure you have 1000 things to do with this plugin at any one time. Still, the demo is VERY IMPRESSIVE.
I went looking for a bulk image uploader, and found a radically better way to handle images in WP in general. Really, really cool! I can’t wait to try this…
Thanks for all your hard work and…
Keep up the great work!
Great plugin, just wondering how could I implement it in a custom post type. Could it be possible to add images to a custom field instead of the editor? Thanks
Hi Mihai – I’ve been pulling my hair out having to upload images one at a time. Your plugin is absolutely super and I don’t even mind that it only works in Firefox. It’s worth going to Firefox to use it and then going to Chrome for other things. Really, really cool plug in. You really saved my day. I look forward to future updates and will be contributing as soon as I can.
Best regards!
One of dazzling plugins I’ve ever seen.
At the moment not suitable for me because I have to use custom post types and it works only in standard posts.
Maybe you can build in some right management also so an author with reduced right levels should not be handle the whole media library, it is a hole in the base wordpress. As is the insert single image into post or insert a gallery of your images, manage of your galleries that are hardly understandable for me, etc. Your plugin is really revolutionary as somebody wrote above. Regards!
Hi,
I am glad you like the plugin.
Thank you for the suggestion related to right management. Added it to the feature list
Mihai.
Great plugin, and definately needed as a substitution for the WP image handling, but why doesn’t it work for IE?
I use WP as a CMS for clients, most of whom use IE and it seems a little too much work to ask all of them to change their browser just to use a particular plugin.
Is there a IE version on the way?
Cheers.
Hi,
The reason it does not work on IE is that IE does not support drag and drop file uploads.
Mihai.
Hi
Looks a great plugin but how do I enable it for custom post types?
many thanks
Andy
Very nice Plugin!!!
Nice plugin. I recommend not to show (load) all the images in the box called “Available images”, for my site is showing an Warning: filesize() “funtion.filesize”, in file: getimages.php line 34. It would be great to have an option to delete those images that appears as “image not found” and are not linked to any other post or page. It also be great to have the posibility to select more than one image to do work with them, for instance to delete them. The most importan think it would be not to load all the images at once, but only load them while scrolling, not to load the server
. I also recommend to check if jQuery is already loaded by the theme or other plugin has done it, not to load it twice and have issues.
Thanks for the plugin, it is very nice.
Hi Vera,
Thank you for the kind words related to my plugin.
- filesize warning: sometimes, wordpress database is not in sync with the files on the disk, so that attempting to get information related to a file will trigger this warning. as far as I know there are plugins that fix this issue by deleting the files in the db that do not have a counterpart on the disk. To just ignore this error (won’t fix your invalid links), juts go to line 34 in getimages.php and add a “@” in front of the filesize function so that the warning won’t be issued. But again, this won’t fix the problem, it will just silence it!
- nice ideea related to multiple images processing, noted down
- I am just loading the image list, the image thumbnails are loaded as you scroll. However, I will consider loading dynamically even the list so that the initial impact on page load is minimum
- I do not load jQuery. Just jQuery.scrollTo plugin. Perhaps there is another plugin that loads jQuery in your installation?
Thanks,
Mihai.
please update for the current WP version 3.2.1, thanks
Hi Gap,
This plugin works excellent with WP 3.2.1.
Do you experience any kind of issue with it?
Thanks,
Mihai.
I confirm it is working on 3.2.1
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Mihai,
Is Image Pro supported on MU instances?
Hi Matt,
No, at the moment it does not work on MU instances. However, this is the first feature I will add on the next release, as it is asked by a lot of users.
Mihai.
Wow! Nicely done. Simple and helpful throughout. The video was a great selling tool. I am convinced that you really had the end-users needs in mind when you wrote this.
Thanks for your time and effort!
A~
how can I insert caption to a picture managed by this plugin?
Hi,
At the moment you can’t add captions to the image (only alt text). Thanks for the suggestion, and will consider adding this feature in the next release.
Mihai.
I think this is a very great plugin, very useful and easy.
I just have one suggestion to make it better, so it will be nice to have the posibility of filter images from the post gallery, or a pagination system, because ir we have a lot of images in the multimedia gallery, the page takes a several time to load all the thumbnails.
Thanks for your code time!
Hi J Eme,
I’m glad you like this plugin!
It already has a filtering image feature. Just type some letters into the search text field in the available images panel, and you’ll see that only the images matching that text will be loaded into the view.
Currently, the images list is loaded at once, but the thumbnails images are loaded as you scroll.
I’ll also think about a pagination/tagging system in order to work great on hundreds/thousands of images and also preload the list structure, not only the thumbnail images.
Mihai.
Hiya,
Looks great. 3 years ago, we developed a plug-in for a client, moretolifemag.co.uk whereby you could insert an image, resize and crop it for a thumb and featured image – and it would also display on the slider if requested.
There’s some features here (yours and ours) that WordPress users would really find to productivity boosters. Can your plug-in crop too! It’s awesome! It’d be great if it showed the dimensions too, as it resized so you could drop it into a theme’s column.
Big congrats – great work
Hi Ken,
My plugin doesn’t currently do image manipulation but it may be an idea to link it with WordPress Image Editor. Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve added it to the feature list.
so sad that it work only with firefox
Do you plan to work on a multi browser version ?
Hi Blackspirit,
Please check the comments above regarding cross-browser implementation.
Mihai.
Fantastic plugin but I’ve recently been getting the message:
“Cannot get response after file upload”
When I try to upload images. The status bar freezes and doesn’t reach the end.
Any ideas of what could be the problem? I just moved to another server and have been having this problem since. I tried many things, checked folder permissions, made changes to .htaccess and nothing.
Thanks
Hi Vlad,
Here are some questions so I can figure out why uploading doesn’t work:
- do you have enough free space left?
- can you upload files through the normal WordPress file upload feature?
- can you please send me your log file in image pro? (/wp-content/plugins/image-pro…/logs/impro.log).
PS: your mail server says your email is invalid
Thank you,
Mihai.
Hi Mihai,
I’m getting a message that says “ImagePro plugin cannot run on this browser!
)
ImagePro currently supports only Firefox. When you’ll see what it does, you’ll understand why
The plugin is currently NOT WORKING. So to use it, use Firefox ”
However, I am using Firefox (8.0). Any idea why this is hapenning?
Thanks,
Jason
Hi Jason,
Are you using any plugin that alters the browser ID (user agent)?
This is the only explanation I can find for this.
Could you try http://youruseragent.info/what-is-my-user-agent and tell me what does it appear under “Your user agent string is:” ?
Thanks,
Mihai.
Hi Mihai, thanks a lot for giving us the way to manage images as even wordpress doesn’t. You did and still continue to do a great job. Please let me know when the new version will be available, and if it will have a resize box with input values as a new feature.
Thanks again
Anselmo from Rome
Hi Anselmo,
Thank you for your feedback. I added it to my list of features. I currently do not have a new planned release, but when I will, you’ll see it in your WordPress Plugin Update
Thanks,
Mihai.
Hi,
Your plugin looks nice (not tested yet in realf life).
How is it handling the upload of big pictures ? I mean pcitures from cameras are nowadays often very large in pixels and MB, and I’d like those to be resized upon upload so that they are not occupy so much space on the server. Is your plugin doing something like that when doing the drag and drop upload ?
Can it “crop” pictures to be uploaded ?
Congratulations anyway!
Hi,
My plugin cannot crop images. Big images are resized exactly like the other ones. If you server is fast and allows lots of memory allocation, it’s going to be fine. If not, you may experience errors.
In the future I may have a settings page where such settings like (resize to X*Y if picture is huge) may exist.
Mihai.
Great plugin, we just started using this on my wife’s blog!
5 stars for Mihai. I had an issue setting this plugin up on my website and Mihai fixed the problem quickly. Amazing support, especially for a free plugin. Thanks Mihai!
Thanks for this… A suggestion?
I don’t know how easy it is, but you know how your “Available Images” section creates pretty rounded corners? How easy would it be for you to add like a drop-down list or something with many different “frames/borders/etc.” we can select and then apply for the particular image we drag into the post?
Is that possible, or are the pretty borders only a back-end thing, and too much of a problem or overhead to be front-end?
Thanks…. And ditto to some of the other already recommendations.
Thanks for the recommendation!
Rounded corners would be easy to make (through CSS), but they won’t work on IE8 (website visitors on IE8 won’t view them). So the only solution would be to make them server-side.
I’ve added it to the features list.
Thanks,
Mihai.
Hi, very nice plugin! is there a way, to insert the images with their full size? or do i always have to scale them up?
Hi Andyh,
At the moment no. However, this seems like an easy-to-implement feature, and I’ll add it to the features list.
Mihai.
Hi, great plugin! Is there currently a way to select more than one file at a time? So, for example, if I wanted to delete multiple pdf files, is there a way to select more than one for deletion at a time?
Thanks!
Hi Leo,
Right now it is not possible to select / delete multiple files at once. The plugin is focused on individual management of content.
However, you can delete multiple files by going to the wordpress Media library. It supports removing multiple files at once.
Mihai.
Big thanks for this plugin, my brother wanted a website to put some of his stuff up onto, after searching for a plugin to handle images easily I found yours, definitely the best of breed, easy to install, but more importantly easy to use.
i really really like your plugin
maybe an enhancement: could you add a rgba-background to the selection when cropping (cropping a white image is a pain)? even cool would be a better selection where i can resize from every position of the square – not only from top.
thanks a lot
Hi Thomas!
Cropping? My plugin does not do cropping, it only does resizing. What did you want to say?
Thanks,
Mihai.
Mihai
I am so excited to find your plugin, but I am having trouble activating it. I get this:
Fatal error: Call-time pass-by-reference has been removed in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/devwp/wp-content/plugins/image-pro-wordpress-image-media-management-and-resizing-done-right/src/paths/default.php on line 140
Why is that?
Hi Birgitte,
You’re most likely using PHP 5.4. In that case, some code from my plugin triggered this error. I’ve fixed it, and you can download the new version (0.17) or update from your WordPress plugins inside your dashboard.
Let me know if it fixed the problem.
Thanks,
Mihai.
As of version 0.18, Image Pro Plugin also works now on Chrome and Safari.
Mihai.
powerful plugin , thanks very much
I downloaded the plugin and am unzipping the file. It is saying ‘Password Needed’ or I can Skip File. Can you tell us more about this? For now I Skipped this file, can I go back and enter the Password if needed?
That is rather strange. The zip file is not password protected.
Have you tried installing Image Pro through WordPress? (Plugins -> Search -> Image Pro -> Install)
Mihai.
Mihai
Very nice work well done.
1. I look at your video and cannot seem to get the right side bar edita area, how do I get this to show?
2. How can I use this with captions? is this on your to do list
Thanks Mike
Hi Mike,
Glad you like the plugin!
1. The right side bar area can be triggered by going to the top right button called “options” in the posts edit window and selecting the image properties box. Then, just drag an image into the editor from the Image Pro and click on it. The right side bar should appear. Let me know if that worked for you!
2. For the moment you can’t. This feature is requested by many users and is likely to be the next one I’ll implement.
Mihai.
I’ve tested your nice new Image Pro plugin today on some images in 1 of our WP sites & find it very easy to use.
Initially, the image thumbnails weren’t displaying within the Available Images section below the Post Editor. So I deactivated/activated all plugins & finally found the official AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget plugin to be the culprit (not the first time it’s affected others, who knows why!). As a result, I’ve deactivated Add This plugin for now because it was annoying not seeing thumbnails until the image was added into a post.
SUGGESTED REFINEMENTS
1. In your original WordPress Image Management Plugin, there was the ability to proportionally resize images to specific values; as shown in http://www.mihaivalentin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/hover-resize.jpg. This feature is missing from Image Pro. Generally, we like to use a certain image width in our posts, over & over again. It would be great if we could set this width (in Image pro settings?) as a preferred DEFAULT when using Image Pro.
2. When inserting numerous images into a post/page, it would be a time-saver if Image Pro retained the selected Alignment (Left, Center, Right) during a post/page editing session so we don’t have to keep selecting Left, Left, Left, Left, Left etc…
3. Sometimes during a post/page editing session, we just want to quickly adjust the size of an individual image using a typed width value instead of dragging a corner handle to manually resize. This is similar to 1. above, but letting us override the DEFAULT width for 1 instance.
There are times when dragging is better for us, & there are times when typing a width to size an image is better.
Always, the proportional resize should be the DEFAULT. Goodness, what bloody idiot wants to resize an image by squashing it vertically or horizontally?
4. Is cropping a function that can be easily added to Image Pro (instead of using your button Edit In Library > Edit Image > Image Crop)? Would be handy if you can!
5. Selecting multiple images together doesn’t appear to be possible using the usual Ctrl or Shft or even Alt keys. Can this capability be added somehow/sometime?
6. One final improvement: We’d really love it, & I’m sure others would agree, if we could use Image Pro to EXPORT/IMPORT all images with their Alt-tags & Title text (& other media types too) between websites that we own. Now that is powerful!
Overall, Image pro has SO MUCH going for it as User Friendly. Especially for website developers/salespeople/marketers like us — who started in graphic design for print. Well done. Shall send a Paypal donation too.
Hi Brent,
Im glad you like Image Pro Plugin. I’ll answer related to the refinements, one by one:
1. That functionality was indeed removed. However, I plan in adding a settings page in the future where you can define width/height profiles. Then the profiles would be used to resize any image you click on. When you’ll select the profile, the specified dimension will be applied.
2. This also sounds like a nice candidate option for the plugin’s future settings page. (remember alignment)
3. Sure thing. Besides the profiles, a “Custom” size would be picked, in which users will put the values directly.
4. Crop is a favorite feature request among my users. I haven’t made a research related to what would imply, but surely I added it with +1 to my crop feature requests
5. No, it would not be possible by drag and drop. The drag and drop from Image Pro to the post is handled by the default dragging and dropping of the images implemented in the browsers. So dragging and dropping multiple images between them would not work this way. However, a jQuery UI drag and drop implementation would be possible, but I do not think this will be on my short-list for the moment.
6. Interesting feature. Aren’t there plugins that manage this kind of import/export of images/posts/etc in WordPress?
Mihai.
After I upload a file, it sometimes does not show the blue upload progress thing, sometimes it only shows it partially, and then I get the message: “Cannot get response after file upload”. When I first started to use this wonderful plug-in it never showed this message and it just uploaded and showed it right away. Just one day this started to happen.
The funny thing is after pressing F5 the picture is uploaded to the directory sometimes and shows it in the “available images” section. Other times it doesn’t show in the available images section and I have to upload it through the normal wordpress section. I have enough space to upload to (saw the advice you gave to vlad).
I am a huge fan of this incredible plug-in but I would really like this problem to be solved because sometimes it drives me crazy when I want to upload a picture fast. I use the latest version of FireFox (16.0.2) and just updated to 0.19 of Image Pro (just now). I was hoping this would solve my problem but no
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Hi Ferry,
Could you please check so you do not have any permissions errors?
Thank you so much.
Your plugin is easy to use
i’m using your .19 version with word press and for some reason on this 1 website i can not see the thumbnail images. If i drag a file it will display in the post and i can resize it just like normal but i dont know why but just today all the thumbnails turned into “image not found” squares. can you help with this? i’ve uninstalled and reinstalled the plug in and nothing has changed.
This doesn´t working good in my site…
I haven´t any thumbnails, drag and drop doesn´t working, under resizing Chrome doesn´t show images pixel size atc…
http://screencast.com/t/UyQvtBhg0zCA
some is caused my webhosting permissions I mean, but some I don´t understand why
- Which version of PHP do you have?
- Do you have GD PHP extension installed?
Works a treat, but have 2 questions.
It works without issue on the “live” site but on my local testing server (localhost) I am having issues, although I can see the names of the thumbnails, I see no actual thumbnails. But I can edit them, and can open them but I cannot drag them into the post
I also have a question re Highslide but that can wait until I see if I sort out the above local issue.
Many thanks in advance
Hi,
Which version of PHP do you use? Try to disable the E_DEPRECATED errors and check if you have GD installed.
Have you considered extending your image pro plugin to the iPad? I would really like that.
Warren
Not until now. I’ve added it to my feature list.
The image area does not show any thumbnails …
only the file names…
if i drag&drop, it doesnt show me the new image either.. is thism plugin broken ?
Hi Daniel,
- Which PHP version are you using?
- Do you have GD extension installed?
- Do you see anything in the error logs?
This plugin is very nice and efficient.
But the problem is on my website!
The files will be uploaded on my website as follows:
http://up.bia2bebar.ir
But the plugin does not support this type.
Please check.
Thanks
Hi. Your site gives me “Access denied” when entering on it.
no my website is:
http://bia2bebar.ir
and my uploadet images to subdomain :
http://up.bia2bebar.ir
this plugin not work in my wordpress panel cause I am upload files to subdomains!
Of course this plugin upload files but not show uploadet files in panel and post!
Hi alireza,
Which WordPress plugin are you using to handle file uploads on a subdomain? I’d like to try and replicate the same issue too!
well done for this great image plugin
hello mihai! this is a very exciting plugin and is recommended as one of scribu’s favorites.
i installed and got “page undefined” message for any posts or pages i opened in editor.
so i de-activated and things are back to normal.
os x, chrome.
thank you!
Hi Suzy,
Check your email, I’ve asked you to provide a screenshot for your issue!
Thanks,
Mihai.
Hi Chris,
This seems like something very nice and I would love to use it. However, after I installed Firefox and tried to drag a drop a picture from the Picture Library, it seemed that something was happening yet the image didn’t come through. In the image section, I see messages saying “Image Not Found”. Please let me know what I did wrong. Thanks in advance.
- Anna
http://ehub35.webhostinghub.com/~llesse5/wp-admin
2013-03-29 19:14:04 – ERROR –> [phpThumb] – phpthumb_functions::ApacheLookupURIarray() failed for “/~llesse5/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/P10107311.jpg”. This has been known to fail on Apache2 – try using the absolute filename for the source image (ex: “/home/user/httpdocs/image.jpg” instead of “/~user/image.jpg”)
Still not sure what I did wrong.
Hi Anna,
Is your PHP installed as an Apache Module or as a CGI? Your path “/~user” can only be resolved by apache lookup if the PHP is installed as an Apache Module.
Mihai.
Sorry Mihai…I am not quite sure how my plug in what installed. I just clicked install and it did. How can I find out for sure? I am totally new to this. Please excuse my ignorance.
Thanks!
- Anna
Thanks for the great plugin! I was searching this for a long time. Unfortunatly I work with Google Chrom, so the plugin was not working for me. But I found a realy simple solution. I wrote my post and put images in it with the plugin. I saved it as a concept. Then I deactivated your plugin. I went back to my post and now I publiced my post and it worked! It’s not the eassiest way, but I’m allready happy that I can resize my images now!
Hi Tamara,
What errors did you experience with Google Chrome?
The plugin is compatible and is working fine with Google Chrome.
Thanks,
Mihai.
it not support on chrome ? please, i can’t use it because i just like GC
Chrome is supported and works fine. Are you updated to the last version of Image Pro?
got error message
Could not create directory. C:/CustomerData/webspaces/webspace_00168581/webapps/SiteApp38328/htdocs/wp-content/upgrade/image-pro-wordpress-image-media-management-and-resizing-done-right.tmp/image-pro-wordpress-image-media-management-and-resizing-done-right/src/js/helper/scroll
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It’s because of a Windows limitation. In windows, you cannot have paths of more than 256 characters. This seems to be longer and that’s why it doesn’t work. You could try this on a Linux setup or shorten your path.
Thanks,
Mihai.
I have your plugin installed. However when I go to edit a page, your workspace shows all the images as broken links. Here’s a screenshot:
http://talkingtogetherinc.com/wp-content/uploads/Example.png
What could cause this? All the photos are jpg. Does they have to be PNG or something?
Also I have php 5.2 and I have no idea if I have a GD extension. Hosting is godaddy.
Hi Greg, that URL is not working. Could you please provide a correct one?
Hi
I installed the plugin.
But when i drag and drop an image to editor i am getting url to image instead of the original image.
i am working on chrome.
Hi Mk,
You have to drag the images from the desktop to the “Available Images” panel to get them uploaded. And then, from the “Available Images” panel, drag them to the post editor.
Let me know if that worked.
Thanks,
Mihai.
The video is very helpful. I found the plug-in is easy to use. Thank you.
Hi,
This “resize” feature is not what I mean (at I least that’s what I feel): this statement refers to resizing the appearance of pictures in a post, but I refer to upload to server (or at least after being processed by server) only smaller pictures than original ones. For instance, DSLR are producing jpg at about 5MB-10MB, but I don’t want such big volume for each picture.
What I’d like would be to find an upload plugin which would allow resampling of original pictures to reduce the size of file (including reducing number of pixels) and, if possible, offering the possibility to crop part of images.
Some plugins of wordpress offer such features, but those ones are apparently not updated and not anymore compatible with latest WP versions.
Another possibility would be to find plugins for picture viewing/editing softwares (photoshop, xnview, etc..) which would allow easy upload to WordPress, but I didn’t find any yet. (what I want is to avoid a user the pain of saving temporary files to hard drive and then uploading them: on top of unconvenience, I’m afraid they make mistakes and modify the original picture..
Ok! now i get. it doesn’t yet support multi site.
so i disabled it in SA plugin screen, and then enabled it in primary site. NOW I can see it.
But, oh PLEASE make this multi site capable. Our users will LOVE it!
Though I have not tested it myself, some users report to have made it work for multi site using this plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multisite-plugin-manager
Mihai.