Image Shadow

Purpose

Adds realistic, soft drop-shadows to images in your posts.

This is version 1.0.0b2 download latest version. It has been tested on WordPress 2.5-2.6bleeding.

Image Shadow scans your posts for <img> tags and replaces the image link with one hosted on your website which has been transformed to add a shadow and, optionally, a frame. You can choose to keep the image itself at its original size (so the new image, with shadow etc., is larger) or to shrink the image a little to accommodate the new shadowed image in the original image’s space. Only jpg images are handled.

Installation Instructions

  1. If upgrading from a previous version, first deactivate the plugin via the Plugins page and delete the plugin folder from your server.
  2. Upload both the plugin folder (image-shadow) to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  3. Go to your admin Plugins page and activate Image Shadow.
  4. Use the admin Settings|Image Shadow page to set all the available options.

Usage and Options

This is a beta release. It needs to be able to write the cached image files to a folder on your server and will appear to do nothing if it can’t. If you run a caching program you will need to clear the cache to see the modified images.

The plugin’s settings screen uses javascript to enhance the interface, including giving a live preview of the effect of each setting, but if javascript is disabled the settings should still work. Right now the javascript interface works best in Firefox and has problems in Internet Explorer.

Finally…

I look forward to your help in ironing out any issues and implementing any good ideas. General comments can be left below.

7 Comments Add your own

  • 1. fred  |  June 30th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

    I try.

    GO GO GO !!!

    :D

  • 2. Dheeraj  |  July 5th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    Good, I tried this on my site http://www.reviewmirchi.com. good

  • 3. Huseyin  |  July 7th, 2008 at 10:00 am

    Hello.
    I activated your plugin but i got error that
    “ImageShadow could not create the cache directory. Check the write permissions of the plugin directory. You may have some luck creating the cache directory by hand.”

    Where should create “cache” directory in?

  • 4. Rob  |  July 7th, 2008 at 1:46 pm

    Huseyin: The cache directory goes in the /plugins/image-shadow/ directory and needs write permission. If your PHP is running in safe mode you might not get the plugin to work.

  • 5. Huseyin  |  July 8th, 2008 at 8:16 pm

    Thank you, solve this.

  • 6. Chris Birchall  |  July 11th, 2008 at 12:33 am

    Sorry. Can’t get it to work at all here.

    Even after setting the folder to 777. The Settings page is just blank, and when the plugin is activated, the entire site fails to load at all!

    Shame, because I really like the effect.

    Chris.

  • 7. Rob  |  July 12th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

    Chris: Is your PHP running in safe mode?

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