HW Image Widget Plugin

This widget requires WordPress 3.5 or newer.

Primary features of HW Image Widget:

• Allow you to choose responsive or fixed behavior.
• Fixed sized images allow you to define width/height with, or without kept aspect ratio.
• Responsive sized images will allow you to define “fill width” or not.
• Uses TinyMCE for rich text editing of the image text field.
• Allow you to create a custom widget HTML-template in the active theme to override the default layout.
• Default settings can be overridden using filter.
• Works with Carrington Build.
• Works with the theme customizer.
• Available in English and Swedish.

For more info, visit http://webartisan.se/hw-image-widget/

Use standard installation process for a plug-in:

1. Install HW Image Widget either via the WordPress.org plugin directory, or by uploading the files to your server.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

1. 

   Back-end, using responsive behavior.

2. 

   Back-end, using fixed behavior.

3. 

   Editing image text using TinyMCE for rich text editing.

4. 

   Selecting an image.

Installation Instructions

Use standard installation process for a plug-in:

1. Install HW Image Widget either via the WordPress.org plugin directory, or by uploading the files to your server.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

Can I change the way the widget is displayed?

Yes

Can I put the title below the image instead?

Yes

Can I change the default settings of the widget?

Yes

For more info on how to achieve all of this and more, please visit http://webartisan.se/hw-image-widget/

4.4

• Added option to fill width on responsive images.
• Added filter (hwim_load_backend) to allow backend to load on custom pages.
• Fixed several issues concerning the theme customizer.

4.3

• Added the rel-field including filter to alter its contents.
• Made the widget fully support the theme customizer.

4.2

• Added backend link.

4.1

• Fixed notice on front-end when no image has been selected.

4.0

• Added support for WordPress 4.0.
• Replaced custom image selection view with WordPress default “image insert” view to add compatability with WordPress 4.0 while still retaining pre-WordPress 4.0 compatability. This introduces a “Gallery” insertion option in the view, but its ignored by the HW Image Widget if used.
• Made sure JavaScript tags are stripped from the text preview area so they do not execute.
• Widget now depends on SimpleXML PHP-extention (usually available on shared hosting) to strip JavaScript from previews.
• Fixed issues with the HTML view of the TinyMCE editor.
• Made sure TinyMCE editor opens up with a decent height.
• Made sure TinyMCE editor opens up in visual mode.
• Removed all cookie handling (cookies are no longer edited to set proper TinyMCE height for some buggy WP-versions).
• Fixed issue that could cause height/width attributes for fixed sized images in admin change when multiple image widgets are used and a new image is selected.

3.0

• Adding support for using HW Image Widget in the Carrington Build plugin (widgetized pages).
• Refactoring plugin initialization.
• Minor admin UI CSS tweaks.

2.7

• Removing alt attribute from A-tag to conform with HTML standards.

2.6

• Adding title-attribute to the image tag.

2.5

• Renamed template file so its more logical for template creators to locate and use. It will not break compatability with previous versions.
• Launched http://webartisan.se/hw-image-widget/ with more helpful info on widget usage.

2.4

• Fixed issue that could cause the TinyMCE editor to fail while in WP_DEBUG on some setups.

2.3.2

• Fixed issue with text editor now opening when regular post editor was left in HTML-view.

2.3.1

• Minor stylefix for WordPress 3.6 RC1 (back-end field border color).

2.3

• Removed debug snippet.

2.2

• Fixed bug with the target option.

2.1

• Fixed JavaScript bug that could cause widget page JavaScrips to fail.
• Gracefully fail on old WordPress versions.

2.0

• Implemented updated Media Library introduced in WordPress 3.5.
• Updated text editor user interface to be more consistent with WordPress.
• Dropped support for WordPress older then 3.5 to keep it light and wonderful.
• Dropped usage of Twitter Bootstrap.
• Rewrote JavaScript to be less receptive to conflicts with other plugins (could still happen though).
• Fixed TinyMCE editor height when its first opened in the browser.

1.6

• Fixed image selection issue when using multiple widgets.
• Play more nicely with other widgets using image selection tool.

1.5

• Fixed JS-issue with FireFox.

1.4

• Fixed “From URL” image selection bug.

1.3

• Clearing image height/width attributes when removing image.
• Fixing width/height not being set in WP 3.5+

1.2

• Some refactoring to support PHP5 < 5.3
• Dropped loading “optimizations” to improve overall compatability with custom widget area handling plugins.

1.1

• Fixed front-end display issue.
• Fixed media upload tab not working.

1.0

• First version. Why go beta?