Wordpress Plugin: Scissors

302Stephan27th Oct 2008Portfolio

Scissors is a plugin for the WordPress blogging system that adds cropping, resizing, and rotating functionality to Wordpress’ image upload and management dialogs. Scissors also allows automatic resizing of images when they are uploaded and supports automatic and manual watermarking of images. Additionally, images that are resized in the post editor are automatically resampled to the requested size using bilinear filtering when a post is saved, which improves the perceived image quality while reducing the amount of data transferred at the same time.

Scissors was translated into a total of 20 languages by WordPress users and remains popular among users of WordPress versions 2.8 and prior with a download count of more than 80,000 on Jan 1st, 2010. As of version 2.9 of WordPress, image editing functionality based on the Scissors code comes out of the box. I therefore decided to stop maintenance of the plugin, but others picked up where I left off: Anton Huizinga created a version of Scissors that is compatible with WordPress 2.9, which I would like to explicitly recommend to people who enjoy using Scissors’ features that have not yet been integrated into the WP core.

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  1. henry TTTS (February 8, 2010, 5:21 pm).

    I upgraded the plugin and now the watermark featured stopped working. For some reason it wont keep the settings on an image when I tried to watermark manually. Could this be a permissions issue? Any suggestions? thanks

  2. Stephan (February 8, 2010, 9:10 pm).

    Fixed in 1.3.7. Thanks for reporting the problem!

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