Get the Image
An easy-to-use image script for adding things such as thumbnail, slider, gallery, and feature images.
4.3(17 reviews)
·8.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, Get the Image is a WordPress image plugin with 8.0K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 17 reviews. It has been downloaded 635K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.9+ and PHP 5.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 31% this week. Top alternative: Imsanity.
4.3/517 reviews
8.0K+active installs
635K+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
Get the Image is one of the most advanced thumbnail/image scripts ever created for WordPress.
It is used everywhere from small blogs to large, enterprise-level solutions like WordPress.com VIP. Get the Image offers something for everybody. Much of the reason for its success is because it uses standard WordPress code and methods for doing what it needs to do, which is to simply grab images.
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. It is an image-based representation of your WordPress posts.
This is a highly intuitive script that can grab an image by custom field input, WordPress’ featured image, post attachment, or extracting it from the post’s…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Future plugin development
by vasilistein·8 years ago·2 replies
Hi Justin,
It’s a great plugin i have discovered recently. Lots of sites do not use Featured Image and prefer to add images into the editor, especially very old sites and blogs. This is the main reason i am using this plugin.
I see that the plugin was last updated four months ago. Are you going to maintain and develop this plugin in the future?
plugins should make life easier
by Anonymous User 14293447·8 years ago·3 replies
It sounded too good to be true. Don’t use this plugin unless you know where to put your hands in the core. The plugin offer absolutely no settings, neither a checkbox or anything in the backend (where the game should occur), you almost think it’s not installed. The instructions on Github are only clear to WP developers and so vague that not even studying WP documentation you can understand where to put the functions.
Lucky those 50K who are succesfully using it, they must all be developers. Myself, I canned it!
Just works
by Tan Nguyen·10 years ago
Nice plugin, I use it for all of my sites.
Get The Image WordPress Plugin
by CyberAbel·10 years ago
Hello everyone and plugin author, this is one of the greatest plugins I’ve ever used for setting up custom thumbnails without using the default Featured Image feature. With some tips and hints from https://github.com/ I have been able to do what I wanted to do with this plugin, thanks a bunch, I really appreciate this. Keep up the awesome work! Regards.
upgraded… now it doesn't work
by 11Elevencreative·11 years ago·1 reply
just did the update, our gallery stopped working. went to the forums, no support unless you are VIP.
lame
Download Trends
Today: 10Yesterday: 14This week: 56Period total: 4K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.9+ requiredTested up to 4.8.28 |
| PHP | 5.2+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.1
78.4%
v1.0
15.3%
Other
6.3%
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Changelog
Please see the changelog.md file included with the plugin file. Or, you can view the online change log.
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