How to Resize Images on the Fly in WordPress

While working on moving WP Mayor to Genesis, I needed image resizing on the fly functionality, as the old theme used Timthumb and I wanted to get rid of that for a number of reasons.

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While working on moving WP Mayor to Genesis, I needed image resizing on the fly functionality, as the old theme used Timthumb and I wanted to get rid of that for a number of reasons.

I spent some time researching and in the end settled on a script named BFI Thumb, which is freely available on GitHub. Posting it here in the hope that it might save someone some research.

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Written by Jean Galea

Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and writer. He is the founder of WP Mayor, and the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight. He also runs the Good Life Collective. Connect with him on X or visit jeangalea.com.

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4 Responses

Thierry Muller says:

February 25, 2016 at 23:59

Beans theme frawework has that built in the Images API . Resize but also rotate, quality etc.
Jakub Chodorowicz (@chodorowicz) says:

April 15, 2014 at 05:19

And what about Worked always really good for me.
skyboro says:

March 21, 2014 at 05:32

Well, Photoshop does this too. It has automated/batch processing which is quite reliable and (mostly) easy to use. You can set it up to deliver a range of sizes all in one go. And, no limit on the number of images to process. Set it up, say “go!” and get a cup of tea while it all happens.
sanji41 says:

March 20, 2014 at 08:01

Aqua Resizer works too, the author is also the creator of SMOF framework.