Press75 Releases Two New Plugins
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There are a few things that have been the realm of premium themes and some rare free themes: post thumbnails, and easy video embedding(that doesn't suck). Press75 just released two simple yet powerful and incredibly useful plugins: Simple Post Thumbnails and Simple Video Embedder. Go check them out, and let Jason know how awesome they are.
Simple Post Thumbnails
Easily add thumbnail capability to your theme. Previously most people used timthumb, but Simple Post Thumbnails is a bit cleaner. The killer feature is the ability to upload from a URL to your own server.
With the Simple Post Thumbnails plugin, adding thumbnail images to your posts is as easy as uploading any image (no editing required) and clicking the Update Post button. Upon upload, the plugin will re-size and crop the selected image according to whatever parameters you specify within the plugin configuration. To view this process in action, check out the Simple Post Thumbnails screencast.
Simple Video Encoder
There are a few video embed plugins for WordPress, but I don't like most of them, they are heavy weighted and often add unnecessary headaches for theme developers and users. The Simple Video Embedder is a simple and effective way to add video embedding to your theme.
With the Simple Video Embedder plugin, adding video to your post is as easy as pasting the URL for the video you want to add within a field, and then click submit. You can even provide simple width and height parameters to size your video to match your theme. Currently, this URL embed method works perfectly with several services including Vimeo.com, YouTube.com, MetaCafe.com, Revver.com, Google Video and Seesmic.com. Or, of you want to host your own video, the plugin is also compatible with FLV (Flash Video) and Quicktime formats.
