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A lot of my site consists of category blogs which contain reduced product photos which I want to be clickable to expand to full size. I like the fact that this plugin doesn't rely on Mootools because with J! 3.x it won't be needed. Awesome work!

I've got this installed on pretty much every one of my Joomla 1.5 sites. I'm amazed it's the only extension of its type.

Rather than try to create an image gallery plugin, it automatically creates small thumbnails for blog views, and larger images for articles (the advantage of using it in articles as well, is that all the images are a consistent size, so a user can't break a template design if they try to insert a big image).

It's better than using CSS to enforce a size requirement for an thumbnail image, as the plugin resamples to the correct size, saving bandwidth (you don't really want to have to load a 500kb image if you're only using it at 75x75px resolution).

It's simple to use, allowing sizes of images to be set for blog, article and other (those images that don't appear in the com_content component) and can be set to only resize images set with a class "smartresize", or to resize all images except those with the class "nosmartresize".

Individual images sizes for thumbnail images in blog view can still be set in exception cases - useful for images used on a homepage, for example.

Unfortunately, I've not been able to get it to work consistently in Joomla 2.5 - not strictly speaking its fault as it's only advertised for 1.6-1.7 - but it seems to randomly choose which images it works with.

So - essential (in my opinion) for most older sites, but one star knocked off until it works properly in 2.5.

Very nice plugin. Really easy to use. Has a lot of option in the plugin manager.

It's simple: excellent. Increible easy to use, works perfect. The support is fast and excellent too.

Some "must have" on next versions:

- The hability to install or set two or more instances of the plugin...to make different resizes in different contents.

- Some way to ignore some contents categories or articles, instead of use the class nosmartresizer

- Ignore (or resize it making it sbigger) images smaller than the thubnail dimension. Now, it's shows an error.

- The class "nosmartresize" added to the html tag IMG could be little complicated to final clients. So I suggest that this class have to be assigned with tags {nosmartresizer}...{/nosmartresizer} or something like that.

- Include some type of lightbox by default.


I think that if the plugin have this things, would be the only one and the best!

What I like most is that if all images are set for smartresize, you can make an exception just by adding the class nosmartresize. Works perfect and saves a lot of resizing trouble when you run a site with lots of autors.
Cheers!

Fairly good extension, but lacks one aspect. No mootools support for image pop-ups.

Searched several thumbnail programs and settled on this one. Easy to install, works great, and code adapts easily. A perfect find for me. It will save me a ton of time.

Why this has not been built in by default beats me. I can now:

• Change the size of thumbnails automatically on the blog-style home page section - design changes become a breeze
• Have clickable thumbnails leading to the article
• Have a good size image in the article which won't break the summary elements
• Have a click to pop-up window of the full size image.

In short - brilliant

I had problems in the beginning just becaue I did not read the manual page carefully. It ended up being extremely easy. I don't find any cons for it but pros:
- Ability to thumb all images with exceptions or;
- Ability to thumb no image with exceptions
- Setting image size within the article, blog layout and other
- Giving images an automatic link to the article itself

Just a perfect thumbnailer! Thanks guys!

Excellent plugin. A few problems from the start but excellent help. Recommend it.

Excellent Plug-in But...
Thanks the author, this plug-in is great but I have some problems with it.
Before using this plug-in, I installed the JThumbs image resizer, but for some reasons after installation the plug-in, "SmartRESIZER" doesn't generate (resize) the frontpage (blog) and the articles and I have to resize them manually. Can anybody help me fix this?

Notes:
1- The plug-in works in "Localhost"
2- The JThumbs is uninstalled
3- The permission of all files and folders related to this plug-in is 777.

Thank you,

It is the plugin i dream for a long time.

Really thanks

This plugin is easy to use. I would still want to exclude whole sectors or categories. I hope this will be possible soon.

Thank for the great plugin!

I have tried it on my joomla! site.
It is really good! Thank you!

Thanks. It is very useful!

I think use smartresizer to creat thumbnails and use mavikThumbnails to lightbox a lot of image in my article like a gallery is the best way!

this is really one of a kind plugin, thx
but it can be even better if you add:

- separate folder for thumbnails
- options to choose different popups for showing full size image (slimbox, lightbox, etc...)

I created an account here just to say thanks. It´s an excellent plugin. It does what it says, no errors, no complications at all.
It´s perfect in combination with RokBox libraries !

I always wanted a feature like this. I tried the plugin and it works as it says. Great Job Igor. Joomla should incorporate this as a standard feature.
I would suggest one optional feature. When images are shown small (in blog pages, etc), the caption text should not be shown.

This little plug is a great. It produced a neat thumbnail of my original image and displays in blog perfectly without disturbing the article headline layout which helps give impact. The only thing I would like to have seen would be an option to use a reduced set of CSS so headlines appeared small in blog area. This would help when listing in columns.
Otherwise this plug is perfect and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to show thumbnails of there images in intros of article while still showing full size image when open.

GREAT!

This is exactly what I needed. Installed, set the parameters, tested it and it works as needed, by reducing the size of the photos in the front page blog layout. Thank you.