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jawngee / ILab-Media-Tools

Comprehensive wordpress media management plugin.
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DO NOT USE THIS REPO, IT HAS MOVED

The new repo is @ https://github.com/interfacelab/ilab-media-tools

DO NOT USE THIS REPO, IT HAS MOVED

ILAB Media Tools

ILAB Media Tools are a suite of tools designed to enhance media handling in WordPress in a number of ways.

Image Cropping

ILAB Media Tools ships with the most advanced image cropping tool available for WordPress, based on Chen Fengyuan's amazing Cropper plugin for jQuery.

Upload to S3

Automatically copy media uploads to S3 and hosts your media directly from S3 or CloudFront. Additionally, easily import your existing media library to Amazon S3 with the push of a button.

Integrate with Imgix

Imgix will radically change the way that you build your WordPress sites and themes. This plugin is the best integration available for WordPress. Upload your images to S3 with our S3 tool and then host the media with Imgix, providing you with real-time image processing and automatic format delivery. Forget ImageMagick, Imgix is light years ahead in quality and speed.

Advanced Image Editing

When integrating with Imgix, ILAB Media Tools provides the most advanced WordPress image editor. Alter contrast, saturation, vibrancy and over 30 other image editing operations - in real time right inside the WordPress admin interface! Completely non-destructive!

Best of all you get this functionality for free.

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/ilab-media-tools directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' screen in WordPress
  3. Enable the tools you want through the ILab Media Tools -> Tools settings page.
  4. For S3, enter your AWS credentials in the ILab Media Tools -> S3 Settings* page.
  5. For Imgix, enter your Imgix settings in the ILab Media Tools -> Imgix Settings page.
  6. Once your settings are complete, use the ILab Media Tools -> S3 Importer to import your current media library to Amazon S3.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does this compare to WP Offload S3?

This essentially does everything that WP Offload S3 does but is free. It includes an import function for importing your current library to S3 that only the pro version of WP Offload S3 has. Otherwise, they work almost exactly the same.

Why should I use Imgix?

One of the headaches of managing a WordPress site is dealing with server disk space. If you just use the S3 functionality of this plugin, you are already one step ahead. Using S3, all of your media is centrally located in one place that you can then distribute through a high performing content delivery network to improve page load speeds for your site. You also don't have to worry about disk space on your servers anymore.

Imgix is a content delivery network with a twist. In addition to distributing your media, it also allows you to edit them, in real-time. and deliver the edited version through their CDN without altering the original. Want to add a new image size to your theme? You can do this with Imgix without having to use a plugin to recut all of your existing media to this new size. Imgix optimizes format delivery and a bunch of other things. It's seriously the greatest thing to happen to WordPress and web development in the history of ever.

Are you a paid shill for Imgix?

No, I'm just one very enthusiastic customer.