WP: Featured-Posts-With-Thumbnail Plugin Workaround (1.5.1)

function featured_posts_YIW($args = null) {

    global $featured_post_plugin_path;
    $defaults = array(
         'title' => 'Featured Posts',
         'numberposts' => 5,
         'orderby' => 'DESC',
         'widththumb' => 73,
         'heightthumb' => 73,
         'beforetitle' => '<h3>',
         'aftertitle' => '</h3>',
         'show' => 'featured',
         'category' => 'uncategorized'
    );

    /**
     *  Merging default values with user selected settings
     */
    $fp = wp_parse_args($args, $defaults);
    $title = $fp['title'];
    $showposts = $fp['numberposts'];
    $orderby = $fp['orderby'];
    $width_thumb = $fp['widththumb'];
    $height_thumb = $fp['heightthumb'];
    $before_title = $fp['beforetitle'];
    $after_title = $fp['aftertitle'];
    $show = $fp['show'];
    $cat_ID = $fp['category'];

    /* List's title */
    if ( !empty($title) ) {
        echo $before_title . $title . $after_title;
    }

    /*
     * Modificare i parametri di questa query per mostrare/escludere
     * categorie, pagine.
     * If you want to exclude categories and/or pages modify this query
     * properly
     * Info: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts
     *
     * @todo Aggiungere esempio per mostrare/escludere categorie e pagine in
     * questo commento
     */
    global $post;
    if ( (strcmp($show, 'category') == 0 ) && ($cat_ID)) {
        $get_posts_query = 'category=' . $cat_ID;
        $get_posts_query .= '&numberposts=' . $showposts;
        $get_posts_query .= '&orderby=' . $orderby;
    } else {
        $get_posts_query = 'meta_key=featured&meta_value=1';
        $get_posts_query .= '&numberposts=' . $showposts;
        $get_posts_query .= '&orderby=' . $orderby;
    }
    $featured_posts = get_posts($get_posts_query);

    echo '<ul id="yiw-featured-post">';
    foreach ($featured_posts as $post):
        setup_postdata($post);
        ?>
       <li>
           <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" class="featured-thumb">
           <?php if ( (function_exists('the_post_thumbnail')) && (has_post_thumbnail()) ) :
               $image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id(), 'full' ); ?>
               <img src="<?php echo $featured_post_plugin_path ?>scripts/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo $image[0] ?>&amp;h=<?php echo $height_thumb ?>&amp;w=<?php echo $width_thumb ?>&amp;zc=1" class="alignleft" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" />

           <?php else : ?>
               <img src="<?php echo $featured_post_plugin_path ?>scripts/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo catch_that_image() ?>&amp;h=<?php echo $height_thumb ?>&amp;w=<?php echo $width_thumb ?>&amp;zc=1" class="alignleft" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" />
           <?php endif; ?>
           </a>

           <h4 class="featured-title">
               <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
           </h4>
       </li>
    <?php
       endforeach;
       echo "</ul>";
}