Much of the reason for its success is because it uses WordPress code and methods for doing what it needs to do.
The plugin was designed to make the process of adding thumbnail, featured, slider, gallery, and other images to your blog much easier, but it's so much more than that.
This is highly script that can grab image by custom field input, WordPress featured image, post attachment, or extracting it from the post's content.
Please note that Get the Image requires that you understand and know how to edit your PHP code, at least to the extent of copying and pasting one line of code.
The original plugin was in launched 2008, which means it has several years of solid testing and development behind it.
Even with WordPress more recent advancements management, many users still continue using this plugin because it offers more robust script than WordPress..
The plugin has been downloaded 100,000s of times and is used on millions of sites as part of WordPress theme packages..
Other image plugins have come and gone, but Get the Image has stood the test of time with several years of successful installs and happy users..
If you need professional plugin support from me, the author, you can join the club at Theme Hybrid.
If you're author, plugin author, or just hobbyist, you can follow the development of this plugin on its GitHub repository..
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