timthumb

Remove timthumb.php from my custom theme

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Just delete your timthumb.php file. If your site thumbnails use timthumb then the code might look like this <img src=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/80287/<?php bloginfo(“template_directory’); ?>/xxxxx/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo “original image url” ?>&h=150&w=150&zc=1″ /> Just replace those instances with code like this the_post_thumbnail(‘thumbnail’, array(‘class’ => ‘thubnail’));

Is Timthumb still broken? What security measures should be taken?

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Take a look here: http://ma.tt/2011/08/the-timthumb-saga/ I assume you know who Matt is. Also, Matt mentioned this guy in that link, and he’s got some updates on the issue posted to his site http://markmaunder.com/2011/08/01/zero-day-vulnerability-in-many-wordpress-themes/ The short is, there’s now TimThumb 2.0 which is fixed. It’s available here http://code.google.com/p/timthumb/

Large image upload size (using timthumb.php

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Instead of using timthumb, use the internal image API. Firstly, specify the custom size you’re wanting to use by using add_image_size: Usage: <?php add_image_size( $name, $width, $height, $crop ); ?> So you would put this in your themes functions.php: add_image_size( ‘large_post_image_header’, 660,246,true); Then, instead of: <?php $image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), ‘full’ ); ?> … Read more

TImthumb not working for absolute path

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I always do this with Timthumb: // this is the absolute path $url=”http://crizaze.com/wp-content/themes/joorang/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ami166a-e1295733091216.jpg”; // convert it into relative path $url = str_replace(get_bloginfo(‘url’), ”, $url); // get the image url, resized by timthumb $timthumb_url = get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . “/timthumb.php?src=$url&w=80&h=80”;

TimThumb & htaccess : clean url

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Cadeyrn’s code work probably for 1 specific size ( 200&w=350& etc) , the major problem with timthumb and the reason people use it, is that it allows for many dynamic sizes thus making .htaccess rewrite rules much more difficult, especially if you using friendly WordPress permalink structure. There is a guide here on how to … Read more

what is the difference between timthumb and post thumbnail?

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There are two reasons: post_thumbnail was introduced with WordPress 2.9, and many themes which used TimThumb because post_thumbnail wasn’t yet available to them. TimThumb is more flexible than post_thumbnail — it gives you more options for how images are cropped, and allows for simple filters to be applied to the images. However, TimThumb has also caused … Read more

If Media Type .GIF

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I’m not quite sure you’re using the wp_check_filetype() correctly. I just successfully tried the following to determine if the post thumbnail ext was jpg or not: $url = wp_get_attachment_url( get_post_thumbnail_id( ) ); $filetype = wp_check_filetype($url); if ($filetype[ext] == ‘jpg’) { echo ‘this is gif’; } else { echo ‘this aint gif’; } You probably know … Read more