a waste of words

wet_article_thumb is a plugin for Textpattern, rendering a thumbnail associated with an article’s image and optionally linking this thumbnail to the related article’s page. It combines the results of Textpattern’s built-in tags <txp:permlink />, <txp:title />, and <txp:article_image /> into a single convenient template tag.

Usage

<txp:wet_article_thumb />

• Display the thumbnail for the current article’s image

<txp:wet_article_thumb class="thumb" link="1" />

• Display the thumbnail for the current article’s image.
• Apply class thumb to the image tag.
• Make the thumbnail a link to the article. This comes handy in article lists.

Marios prepared an extensive tutorial on building a gallery site with Textpattern sporting wet_article_thumb.

Alexandra dissects Christian Sandberg’s photo blog setup in one of her german Textpattern tutorial articles, also featuring this humble Textpattern plugin.

Last, but not least, wet_article_thumb is used on this site for all article lists.

Required attributes

None.

Optional attributes

attribute	description
class	CSS class which will be applied to the <img> tag. Defaults to "wet_article_thumb".
style	style attribute which will be applied to the <img> tag. Defaults to “”.
align	align attribute which will be applied to the <img> tag. Default is empty.
link	Link the thumbnail image to the article. Defaults to "1". Set to "0" to disable the thumbnail’s link to the article.
rel	rel attribute appplied to the article link. Defaults to “bookmark”, as microformats are hip these days.
link_class	CSS class which will be applied to the article permlink. Default is empty.

Licence

This plug-in is released under the Gnu General Public Licence.

Download

Get it here: wet_article_thumb.txt.

Resources and Relateds

Express your suggestions, report bugs and discuss enhancements in this Textpattern forum thread.

Change log

Date	Version	Notes
2005-10-21	0.1	Initial release
2005-11-03	0.2	Escape alt and title attributes
2006-08-04	0.3	Supports a comma separated list of article images, uses first image’s thumb
2007-01-03	0.4	Added rel and link_class attributes