Doing away with manual custom fields
I’m capturing the steps to upload and crop various formats of thumbnails for WordPress entries. It is one of the main features I’m building for use in my free WordPress theme. Previously, my solution for assigning thumbnails to WordPress entries was via “custom fields“. After a while of using custom fields, it began to feel tedious and I looked for a better way to handle thumbnails.
On top of that, one of my themes in development allows the use of up to 3 thumbnail formats (widescreen, square and rectangle) for every WordPress entries. Can you imagine every time you write a post, you have to fire up Photoshop to create three thumbnails. Each of them in different dimensions and aspect ratios. Uploading them to your blog. And finally copy-and-paste their URLs to custom keys. It certainly needs a more streamlined and convenient way of handling thumbnails. Manually doing it the custom field way just won’t cut it in the long run.
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