Jthumbs Plugin

JThumbs is a plugin that create thumbnails in real time for the content images using HighSlide. HighSlide is a JS similar to lightbox / greybox / slimbox and many others but I prefere the Style much more. Instead of poping up and fading out the website it give the user the feeling not to seperate the photo from the page. PRE-REQUIREMENT: I take no Credit for the HighSlide Script. The only thing you have to do is to insert image and select jthumbs style from your editor. (to change styles in WYSIWYG editor just create the editor.css file containing .jthumbs {border: 0;} in your "templates/your_template/css/" directory)

v.1.3 : now with phpThumb() by James Heinrich there are better functions for creating thumbs... no more problems with .png images...

v.1.4 : Added images attributes (align,vspace,hspace)

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Editor's Note
  • The additional script Highslide JS is not free for commercial use
It works how it should in FF, but in IE makes some problems with stack overflow.
I don't know how to solve it.
byStephanny on August 14, 2009
This plugin was so easy to install. After I enabled it, it automatically resized all my site images. It was easy to change the paramaters setting as well. I highly recommend this plugin! Great job to the developers! Keep it up.
Easy to install and use. Slick opening animation. I really thought I'd found my extension... until I noticed that the only place you set the display image size is in the plugin itself, and thus *every* image is shown the exact same size (whether it's portrait or landscape). Oh dear. I could even have forgiven this if they allowed you to EITHER put in a height or width but leave one empty. Nope. You have to put in both.

If you only plan on showing one image or identical size and shape images you'll love this. If you need even the tiniest degree of flexibility, try something else.
bybaloni on June 29, 2009
Good and simple to user plugin. If you get can't open file error, just fix permission of plugins/content/jthumbs/includes/jthumbs.css file.
thnx
byLaxon on June 11, 2009
This is a very useful tool, if you only need this functionality just download it and you will be making thumbs in no time.

[If you don't want to add a file to your template CSS just add this class to the image: class="jthumbs"]

Works perfectly, fits the pages and has a nice style to it to top it all off.

Well done :)
Due to the poor instructions from the author, I can't get this plugin to work at first. Finally I realized that I just need to give the image a CSS class named jthumbs. Then it worked. I saw the highslide effects.

But the thumbnail image did not show up properly. My thumbnails look like a vertical bar in gray color with a size about 2px*15px. If I click that gray bar, there will pop-up the large image. I can't understand this.

Anyway, this plugin seems the easiest way to get highslide images. Hope the author will improve it. Thanks.
byDvorkin on October 7, 2008
This plugin is exactly what I want: automatic preview creation +lightbox for single image.
But author forget to set default plugin parameter
"quality"
to
9
(it's =100 by default) and thumbnails are not showing for PNG images.
Thanks to author!