I do try to write as often as I can, it’s just coming up with ideas for tutorials & finding the time between work projects. I’ll definitely have a look at trying to become part of a network though, sounds like a good idea.

I was thinking that if you wrote just a bit more often, you could apply to become part of the Smashing Network: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/the-smashing-network/ or something similar to get more visitors to your site. The content here is more than good enough to be featured throughout the web.

Anyway, I’m glad I stumbled upon your work and I wish you luck with the site.

The core functionality of TAI is now integrated into WordPress under the_post_thumbnail() as you have said, but TAI does things like allow you to add a title, alt or rel attribute, echo or return, and other things like grab the nth image from a post.

WordPress’s in-built function simply pulls the image back & other things must be taken care of manually. If you are a general user and not a developer it may be easier to use my plugin since the admin can take care of the alt etc.

I’m still releasing bug fixes as and when they are needed, but as for further advances? Probably not.

A bit of a thought. I guess I could release a version of the plugin that uses WordPress’ new function and adds things like easy alt, title and rel attributes, optional get the nth image, but I guess that would depend on demand & would be more for the general user than a developer.

As for that author not using WP’s built in option? My guess is that it probably didn’t exist then. Theme Forest says it was created for version 2.8 & the author probably hasn’t updated as the_post_thumbnail() was added in 2.9 according to the change log section of the Codex.

I’ve just realized I go on, and on sometimes. Really though my plugin is only redundant if you are using 2.9 or 3-alpha and don’t need the extra features it provides over WP’s version.

I missed the directions at first to install your plugin, and then, when I finally figured out what I was doing wrong, I was very surprised to see the theme author not using the the_post_image() function. I certainly struck me off guard because I had never even heard of your plugin before (Get the Image, TimThumb, yes, but not The Attached Image).

I also noticed that you rolled out an update to the plugin yesterday, so you must still be developing it. What are your plans with the plugin at this point?