Title: ImageURLReturner
Author: jonquark
Published: <strong>Werurwe 6, 2010</strong>
Last modified: Nzeri 11, 2010

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# ImageURLReturner

 By [jonquark](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jonquark/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/imageurlreturner.zip)

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 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/imageurlreturner/)

## Description

When you use a blogging client from your computer/mobile-phone to upload photos 
to WordPress, WordPress resizes the
 image into smaller versions (e.g. thumbnail
and medium) but the URLs of these resized images aren’t returned to the client so
it can’t use them.

If clients are altered to support this plugin, when you include photos in an entry,
the entry could automagically
 include the smaller images which link to the full
size version when clicked on.

There is a patch to add the functionality in this plugin into the core of WordPress:

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6430 but it missed the cut-off from WordPress
3.0 so it is unlikely to to be included for some time to come.

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin:

 1. Upload `ImageURLReturner.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## FAQ

  Do any WordPress client support this plugin yet?

As I write this, it hasn’t been released yet so: not right now. I plan to add support

to MaStory for Maemo mobile phones.

  It doesn’t seem to be working

Is WordPress generating thumbnails at all? Look in the same directory as the
 image
was uploaded. If not, the problem is unlikely to be this plugin (it just sends the
URLs back, it doesn’t alter the image generation which WordPress already does).

I’ve encounter two problems that stop WordPress generating thumbnails:

 * the gd library (or the php-gd bindings) weren’t installed
 * The client didn’t provide a mime-type for the image. (There is a
    trac item open
   to ask WordPress to work it out: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12518
   but in the meantime you need to alter the client or manually alter your WordPress
   installation as described in the trac item).

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“ImageURLReturner” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ jonquark ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jonquark/)

[Translate “ImageURLReturner” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/imageurlreturner)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/imageurlreturner/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/imageurlreturner/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/imageurlreturner/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/imageurlreturner/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.2

 * If uploading an image with a duplicate name, WordPress automatically
    renames
   it and the plugin didn’t handle it correctly

#### 0.1

 * Initial version

## Meta

 *  Version **0.2**
 *  Last updated **16 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.9 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.0.5**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/imageurlreturner/)
 * Tags
 * [thumbnails](https://kin.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/thumbnails/)[upload](https://kin.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/upload/)
   [xmlrpc](https://kin.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/xmlrpc/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://kin.wordpress.org/plugins/imageurlreturner/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ jonquark ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jonquark/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/imageurlreturner/)

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