Integrating FCG and TimThumb?

[smoothentrepreneur]

I used to use the Bradford Magazine theme, and one of my favorite parts of using it was that the image resizing was so easy because it was 100% automatic. All I had to do was upload a picture to an article, and that picture would get automatically cropped for 1) thumbnail use within the article and 2) featured article use full size.

Would it be possible to integrate TimThumb (http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/04/02/ti ... -released/) into FCG, and if so, would it be confusing?

I am referring to my website, http://www.smoothentrepreneur.com right now, although the website is being massively updated.

[admin]

if you have timthumb.php script on your site already, you can use it for thumbnailimg custom field, just provide that field with timthumb.php link
read more here
http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/04/02/ti ... -released/

[smoothentrepreneur]

I don't have a scripts folder. Should I make one in the wp-content folder?

Also, is there a way to edit FCG so that I don't have to use thumbnailimg custom field for every post? Instead, have FCG and TimThumb recognize the image I am using in my article?

[admin]

you can put timthumb.php in root of your wordpress site..but you have to have cache folder in root directory too
then open wp-content/plugins/featured-content-gallery/gallery.php file in notepad or wordpress editor and
find 2 existences of this line

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<img src="<?php $key=$imgthumb; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>" alt="<?php $key="alttext"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>" class="thumbnail" />

and replace it with this

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<img src="<?php $key=$imgthumb; echo "timthumb.php?src=".get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true)."&h=75&w=100&zc=1"; ?>" alt="<?php $key="alttext"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>" class="thumbnail" />

this way you do not need to specify thumnailimg custom field for each post and thumnail will be resized by timthumb
but only thing, timthumb does not work on external images, so images should belong to your site