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Get the Image

By Justin Tadlock

Content Management / Media Library & Asset Management

Get the Image Review - In-Depth Analysis

Get the Image is a powerful image script for WordPress that simplifies adding thumbnails, sliders, galleries, and featured images.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

6.89/10

User Rating

4.3/5 (based on 17+ reviews)

Active Installations

8,000+

Update Frequency

Below Average It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

1 / 10 (Very Low Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

Get the Image is one of the most advanced thumbnail/image scripts ever created for WordPress.

It is used everywhere from small blogs to large, enterprise-level solutions. Get the Image offers something for everybody. Much of the reason for its success is because it uses standard WordPress code and methods for doing what it needs to do, which is to simply grab images.

The plugin was designed to make the process of adding thumbnail, featured, slider, gallery, and other images to your blog much easier, but it is so much more than that. It is an image-based representation of your WordPress posts.

This is a highly intuitive script that can grab an image by custom field input, WordPress' featured image, post attachment, or extracting it from the post's content. Plus, a lot more!

Please note that Get the Image requires that you understand and know how to edit your theme's PHP code, at least to the extent of copying and pasting one line of code. If you're not comfortable doing this, it's best to ask that your theme author integrate the code necessary to support this plugin.

The original plugin was launched in 2008, which means it has several years of solid testing and development behind it. It was created at a time when WordPress had very little native media support. At the time, it was mostly used as a thumbnail script for magazine-/news-style sites. But, it has grown into a much more flexible script over the years.

Even with WordPress' more recent advancements in image management, many users still continue using this plugin because it offers a more robust image script than core WordPress.

The plugin has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times and is used on millions of sites as part of WordPress theme packages.

Other image plugins have come and gone, but Get the Image has stood the test of time with several years of successful installs and happy users.

If you need professional plugin support from the author, you can join the club at Theme Hybrid, which is a professional WordPress help/support site where support is handled for all plugins and themes for a community of over 75,000 users.

If you're a theme author, plugin author, or just a code hobbyist, you can follow the development of this plugin on its GitHub repository.

Donations are accepted. If you want to donate, you can do so from the donations page or grab something from the Amazon Wish List. All donations are appreciated, no matter the size.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Get the Image plugin.

Image

Images

Thumbnail

Screenshots

FAQ

It was originally created to work with magazine/news themes. These types of themes typically required a lot of work when inputting images to make them look good. This plugin was developed to make that process much easier for the end user. But, at the same time, it needed to be flexible enough to handle anything.

However, over the years, it has grown to be one of the most robust image scripts for WordPress.