This plugin rocks!

Thanks a lot for sharing this, I lost 2+ hours ten days ago looking for a plugin that does exactly what this plugin does and I couldn’t find any. I found it today by chance, when searching for a plugin to manage the captions of my website’s images.

Hint to the Developer: maybe you should refine the plugin’s description so others in the situation I was ten days ago will be able to find it. The keyword I used last week, that was of no use, was “force dimensions for all images”, and “force image dimensions on the fly”.

I was desperate, after two years having problems with my website’s images. Where the mess of different sizes was more evident was when I created views with the Content Views plugin and both the sliders and the grids were malformed due to the different sizes of the thumbnails.

My advice for others looking for a way to make the sizes of their site’s images in a WordPress site consistent/uniform in size is this:

1) Don’t use Wordress media sizes in Settings > Media Settings because A) It wastes too much space on the server and B) It degrades the images when it converts it to different sizes. Just enter 0 in every size field, and deactivate the “Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions (normally thumbnails are proportional)” option. Only leave the “Organize my uploads into month and year-based folders” option enabled, if you think it makes sense to you (it makes sense to me, so I keep this enabled).

2) Don’t ever use a media cleaning plugin, or a regenerate thumbnails plugin. This will not solve your problems of having images with different sizes in the front end, and it has a high potential of deleting a lot of images that I shouldn’t delete, and you will lose a lot of time restoring the images it deleted to the post and pages it effaced. I lost the whole Saturday night ten days ago to fix the mess that both the “Force Regenerate Thumbnails” and “Media Cleaner” plugins did to my website. I was lucky, though, since they deleted only ~30-40 images in a website with ~600 images and photos.

3) Install this plugin, because it does exactly what you are looking for.

PS: to the developer, I think one feature that would make this plugin a killer app 100% (as of now is 95% of a killer app for me) is if you add an option to use the image description meta (the description that appears in the attachment page) as caption. Like I said, my website has around 600 images and both the alt and the title metas I configured are not really fit to work as thumbnails, but the description is. I will look for a plugin that copies the description to the alt field to add captions with your plugin, if I can’t find it I guess I will use the nocaption option until either you add the option or I get around I spending 3-4 hours coping the description text to the alt text. Anyway, thanks a lot again, and sorry if this was a long review.