Image Cropper
The Image Cropper Plugin for Movable Type provides a simple user interface for managing and generating custom thumbnails from any image asset managed by Movable Type.
The plugin was specifically designed to addressed the case where publishers want the ability to produce different thumbnails designed specifically for certain different locations on a web site. Furthermore, for each of these locations it is not sufficient simply to scale the asset in question; rather the publisher would rather crop the asset in a custom manner for each thumbnail generated.
Finally, in order to properly annotate thumbnails to credit the photographer and preserve any required copyright notices, this plugin allows you place some text on the image accordingly.
This utility facilitates that process.
Features
Define a set of "prototypes" which in essence are a prescribed set of allowable thumbnail sizes.
Manage all related thumbnails from a single dashboard.
Create alternate thumbnails using a simple drag-and-drop cropping interface - without ever leaving Movable Type.
Annotate thumbnails with a custom message.
Place annotations using the orientation and location you specify on the generated thumbnail.
Hooks for designers to define thumbnail prototypes for their themes and template sets so that their users don't have to.
thelasian
August 30, 2009 2:43 PM | Reply
I get this in the plugin settings: Error in configuration template: Publish error in template '': Unknown tag found: PluginConfigForm
Also not sure about installation: Where does the META.yml and the README.mardown file go?
thelasian
August 30, 2009 2:55 PM | Reply
Also, about installation: My MT-STATIC folder is outside of my CGI folder. I understand that the content of the MT-STATIC file from the plugin is to be copied into the MT-STATIC folder on my server. But that's confusing me a bit.
THe content of the MT-Static folder of the plug in consists of the following file structure:
MT-STATIC - Plugins -- Imagecropper --- CSS ---- i --- JS
Do I simply drag and drop the whole "plugins" file from the plugin into my MT-STATIC folder?
360Fashion
September 19, 2009 8:03 AM | Reply
hi you do not say what version of mt it will work for. will it work for 4.21?
jdbeast00
October 1, 2009 11:22 PM | Reply
i can't get the tag mt:CroppedAsset to work. I use it as described in the documentation. The cropping part works fine.
mt:Asset id="2" mt:CroppedAsset label="Small" img src="$mt:AssetURL$" / /mt:CroppedAsset /mt:Asset
Asset id 2 works, but the cropped asset displays nothing even though that cropped asset does exist!
Mihai Bocsaru
November 7, 2009 8:17 AM | Reply
The plugin works like a charm! Thanks for this gem, Byrne!
I could confirm that the plugins works very well with movable type v4.26 to v4.32 (latest version at the moment), but I guess it would work also with v4.21 (trying to answer thelasion question above).
Neezer
January 12, 2010 8:58 AM | Reply
Has anyone tried this with MT5? I get a javascript error when I try and create a prototype:
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Security error" code: "1000" nsresult: "0x805303e8 (NSERRORDOMSECURITYERR)" location: "http://[xxremovedxx.xxx]/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi?_mode=listprototypes&blog_id=7 Line: 1"]
Could be a permissions thing on the server?
rover
March 10, 2010 11:23 PM | Reply
This plugin would make my life so much easier, but I too am having trouble getting it to work with MT5.
I can't get past the "Create Thumbnail Prototype" on the Thumbnail Prototype page. Looks like javascript references are wonky as it's pointing to void(0).
Can't wait to get this working so it can be the icing on the cake of MT5.
Cheers, D
wnv
July 17, 2010 8:29 PM | Reply
Having the same problems as rover... I get to the "Create Thumbnail Prototype" page however, when I click on create nothing happens... I am getting the same javascript:void (0) error
Anyone have a clue?