Newbie here, just migrating several old web sites to WP and needed unique images per page so found this as the best option of a handful of such plugins.
One good feature is that it appears on the Edit Page section in Admin, so easy to manage.
Seems to do everything needed with one little niggle – the images don’t responsively scale upwards (I test on a 40″ monitor for these kind of situations).
Note that images do responsively scale downwards.
Having a “Scale to Fit” option would seem the next step in development to allow for images of all sizes?
Similarly a “Fixed Scale” option for those wanting to use more precise pixel-perfect styling might help too?
Keep up the good work, this IS a nice neat plugin.
I’ll probably be using this on all my eleven site upgrades over the next few months.
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Up-date (still a newbie on all this) after
a few week’s fooling around.
Best fix to scaling BG image is add the CSS for
body{
background-size:cover;
}
Or
body{
background-
size:contain;
}
I’m guessing this depends more on the theme’s coding than this plugin’s function.
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Up-date (February 2023) Finally had to bite one bullet and update my sites to newer PHP (8.1) and this looks like it’s finally broken the plugin with: “Warning: Undefined variable $textdomain…” errors appearing.
Looks like I will finally have to move to a newer plugin.
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