Picgrab is a plugin that download, resize and crop an image on the fly. It also stores resized and cropped images in local cache.
As of April 2026, Picture grabber, resizer and cropper is a WordPress crop plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 6.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.1.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 3 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Advanced Custom Fields: Image Aspect….
Picgrab is a plugin that download, resize and crop an image on the fly.
Simply add the “resize” attribute in the img tag you want to grab & resize on your post.
E.g.
<img src=”http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3532/3243887563_700849f242.jpg” resize=”402×200c;66y” />
Once activated, the plugin replaces the attribute “src” on img tags containing the “resize” attribute with something like:
http://yoursite/wp-content/plugins/picgrab/resize.php?url=<coded characters>&size=<coded characters>
and removes the “resize” attribute.
The resize.php script included with plugin does the work to grab, crop and resize the image.
It also manages the cache.
The resize attribute format is:
[(x0,y0,xs,ys)]<xd>x|x<yd>|<xd>…
| WordPress | 6.1.1+ requiredTested up to false |
| PHP | false+ required |
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