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Live Demo

This is a demo site which allows you to log in and test how easy it is to post articles that AUTO thumbnail on your homespage or sidebar. This is the perfect plugin to use in any theme that calls for custom field linked images such as “Revolution” and “Unstandard”

Viva Thumbs includes an intelli-crop algorithm to help it crop the best logical image area. For best results do not use an image that is pre-cropped and try to choose images that are well framed. Intelli-crop logic is built on the “photographer’s eye” model which assumes the key content is loaded in the centre of the frame. It automatically calculates whether the image is portrait, landscape or square and adjusts the crop area accordingly.

Here are some visual examples of how intelli-crop sets the crop area on your images:

LANDSCAPE IMAGE.
intelli-landscape.jpg

PORTRAIT or SQUARE IMAGE
intelli-portrait.jpg

intelli-square.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

Images that are pre-cropped (i.e. already very tall or long and thin), or those that are not well ‘framed’ will not acheive good auto-crop results as a computer cannot ’see’ the image. Therefore, choosing the right images to use with your post is the one responsibility that you are left with - VIVA will do all the work after that!

To run Viva through it’s paces click the envelope icon in top right of the page:

email.gifLogin with username/password: demo/demo

 

  • Write a new post
  • Assign a CATEGORY
  • Upload an image using the WP Upload utility. (Best results with an image 640 x 480 or larger)
  • DON’T INSERT THE IMAGE INTO THE POST (for this demo site we are also using Viva to add the image into the post body by placing the Viva Call in the main Post page as well as the homepage and sidebar.)
  • PUBLISH your post and preview the site. (Look at your post to see how Viva also adds a nicely sized version to the post body.)

You will see your image displayed as a large the thumbnail in the the Recent Post section at the top of the page and as a small square thumbnail in the sidebar. If you chose the Reviews or Site of The Day category your image will also appear as a different size thumbnail at the bottom of the page.

Cool huh!