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Image Resize Plugin

This plugin is completely transparent to the user. (That's the beauty of it.) Simply upload the image using Joomla!'s normal image upload function. Then grab the image and drag it to resize, or use the dialog box to specify a width for the image. When an article is accessed, the image resize plugin will find all the images in the article and resize them per the defined "width" attribute, caching the resized version. If there is no width attribute it will leave the image at its normal size. It only does this resizing the first time the image is accessed at any given width; after that it pulls the image from the already cached version. Then the plugin replaces the src attribute on the image tag with the URL for the resized version. Thus the user never sees the plugin, and the URLs still point straight to images instead of passing a size as a parameter, which could be a security flaw. So whenever you access the article from the front-end, any image will be scaled to exactly the size specified in the width attribute. When you access the article in the editor it still pulls the original image, not the resized version, so you can easily change the image's size.

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2011-04-16
Reviews: 9
Incredible! Fabulously simple.
Lacks only one thing: a donate button to express my appreciation.
There are some bug reports with solutions, that's great also.
On the other hand, I find nagging about cache directories and animated gifs particurly unkind.
Can I put ten stars in stead of just five?
0 of 2 people found this review helpful
2010-05-17
Reviews: 2
I love this plugin 90% of the time.
The other 10% of the time are when I have to put an animated banner in an article and it resizes it and messes up the animation, and there is no way to force it to use the original image (ie an override class to place on images would be nice).
And Secondly,
If something happens and the Cache dir becomes inaccessible, unwritable (either a user changed it or the ISP screwed up the permissions) The failure is a chunk of code shown to the visitor. Ideally it'd just do a graceful fallback to the original image and maybe show a friendly message.
2010-04-30
Reviews: 2
Easy to use, transparent, efficient, pure awsomeness!

Should absolutly be in the core!
2009-04-09
Reviews: 2
Should definatly be a part of the core. I added the suggested bugfixes myself, though, since it seems that the author has not updated the plugin for some time. Is it still in developement?

The plugin is very simple to use and implements a feature, that should be implemented in the core, since it hightens the ease-of-use of joomla end users. Super.
2009-03-14
Reviews: 2
Plug-in works fairly well and makes it a lot easier to work with editors who upload oversized images and then just manually size them with width tags.

There are a few bugs, so I suggest you review the bugtracker.
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/imageresize/tracker/
2008-09-17
Reviews: 3
Easy (well seamless) to use - should be part of the core.