Who doesn’t know the popular plugin Scissors. In the past I wrote an article about this plugin. Before I wrote that article, I’ve developed a plugin called “Resize at Upload“. This plugin resized uploaded images to a given size, just while uploading. Because Scissors had this functionality and much more, I decided to stop developing that plugin. And now from WordPress version v2.9 the author of Scissors decided to stop developing his plugin as well.
Why? Well, because the functionality of the plugin Scissors is now inside the core of WordPress. But unfortunately the functionality in the core is not as good as the plugin Scissors was. Also not completely free of bugs. And this is really bad: the resizing while uploading is NOT in the core of WordPress!
So, instead of blowing off the dust from my plugin “Resize at Upload”, I decided to change the plugin Scissors a little so it will work in version v2.9 (and, not tested though, also in previous versions). The altered plugin will also hide the Edit-button from the WordPress functionality.
You can download the altered plugin here: Scissors for v2.9.
Because I don’t intent to actively develop this plugin in the future, I do not place it in the WordPress Plugin Directory. The core functionality might improve in version 3.0 so there is no reason to keep developing. Meanwhile everyone can use this altered plugin till the functionality is improved. Also they can use my old plugin which still should work. Or use the improved version of that plugin, written by Daniel Mores.
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You have done great job! Now we can watermark on the fly again. Thank you!
Thanks Anton!
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
We feel happy again!
Thanks a lot! This is exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks man!
Oh, my gosh, thank you! I host some non-profit sites for things my kids are involved in. I encourage parents to upload images and most don’t know how to resize before doing so. So the resize on upload is really important to me and the main reason I used Scissors. Saw Scissors would no longer work or be supported even though it does so much more than wp 2.9 feature, found your old resize plugin that said use Scissors, and thought I was stuck. So truly appreciate your picking up where things were dropped.
Well done Anton, your work is much appreciated, as is Stephan’s previous work. I, like many others, am disappointed with the built in image processing in WP. Scissors is what should be in WP core, in it’s complete form. Please continue to develop/update this plugin until WP has the full functionality in the core. I will be happy to help.
There is one “bug” in Scissors, which may or may not be also in the WP core. If an image is uploaded with the extension in capitals, e.g. image.JPG, “link to image” does not work, as it references the lower case equivalent. Either “link to image” should reference the file name as it is, or the image processor should change the file extension to lower case, as it does with smaller image sizes. Perhaps you have corrected this in this version? (I haven’t tried it yet). If not, can you? Or should I get stuck in? I will post a patched version back here if I do.
Thanks
Many thanks for the 2.9.x tweaks!
YES! It works! Thousend Thanks!
The wordpress built in code don’t work for me.
Hello.
(WP 2.9.1)
Watermark doesn’t work.
I’ll take a look next week, but, as stated before, I don’t have plans to develop this plugin. I made a quick fix for getting this plugin work in V2.9 and that was my first goal
Will this work with WordPress 2.9.2? Afraid to update and then lose Scissors again…
It does work with 2.9.1 so it will work with 2.9.2 too. But everybody should test a new version first before upgrading their website. Try the new version on a local system or in a subdirectory on your webserver (with another database or table names prefix).
Thank you Anton. I agree with SpikyJT – after all these years this crucial functionality to resize on upload (I couldn’t see it working on core WP)isn’t included in core WP – shame shame on them. How many clients continue to upload 2mb upwards media for a 300px square post image? – most of them I have to say, as don’t know how – can’t be bothered syndrome sets in and you end up with huge disc space issues in the not too distant future. It would be nice if someone with code experience could “adopt” this baby and keep it working for the future – donations would be very acceptable for the efforts.
I wrote a plugin once, “Resize at Upload” but stopped developing since Scissors could do that too. The code of that plugin and the code of Scissors is freely available so I am sure there are people who can continue this feature
Bedankt. This is so much better then the build-in functions of WP.
Hello,
I noticed that the saved images have the resolution in the file name (example /flowers-600×240.jpg )
How can i add the postId in the filename ? (example flowers-600×240.52.jpg or something similiar) ?
Can you give me some advice please ?
Hello,
I noticed that the saved images have the resolution in the file name (example /flowers-600×240.jpg )
Of course i can’t add the postId in the filename every time so it’s not something useful, but how can i add the userId in the filename ? (example flowers-600×240-dario.jpg where dario is the logged-in user that uploaded the file) ?
Can you give me some advice please ?
The resolution in the filename is standard behavior of WordPress. You should write a new plugin which handles filenames if you want a postId or a username. But be aware a file is not always linked to a post, and an image can linked to one post and put in another post.
You might take a look at Upload+ which handles filenames. With a little fantasy you can alter the code to put a username at the end.
billion of TNX!!!!!!!!
thnks:D
Thank you very much! You just saved me a tons of time! You’re an asset to the wordpress community
Hello,
GREAT THANKS to the adaptive 2.9 version, by the way it works under ower 2.9.2 getting the same settings as before. Best regards from Planet-WiFi.com.
Nice work. The original was good, keeping it to work with WP 2.9 is excellent!
Hi Anton,
I am very excited about trying to use this plug-in. Especially for the watermarking capabilities as it is a pain to add those to every image in photoshop. I have been doing test posts and haven’t yet been able to get the watermark to show up on the photo and I was just wondering what I might be doing wrong.
Also, does it take bmp or tif?
Thanks!
Janie
Thaaaaaaaank you so much for this! I needed to watermark some images and all of a sudden found that Scissors was not working. This was exactly what I needed, so it is much appreciated!
T H A N K Y O U ! ! ! ! !
Amazing! I really hope WP 3.0 fixes the atrocious image editor, but until then this plugin is incredible. Thanks for fixing Scissors for us!!
THANK YOU!
This works great, and EVEN WORKS IN WordPress 3.0!!!!!
Again and again…Thanks thanks thanks thanks.
Great! I had plans to check WP3.0 this week and check if Scissors still works, but it is good news that it seems to work
You have done great job! Your plugin work in wordpress 2.9 and 3.0! Thank You so much
Great plugin and thanks for updating to 2.9 and 3.0.
Big thanx!
Hey,
Many thanks fr fixing the plugin, it works really well. I’m using WP 3.0.1 and having no trouble.
Justan FYI for anyone else, I needed to install extra/php-gd on my ArchLinux servers and also needed to edit my /etc/php/php.ini to included the gd module, the moment I did these 2 steps it worked flawlessly.
Many thanks again.
I assume GD is installed on most servers, but I might be wrong.
Wow it’s awesome.Thanks for updating this great plugin
Many thanks for this – works great on WP 3.0! We needed to be able to crop and re-size various image seizes, not just thumbnails, so very happy to be able to run Scissors again.