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1. violent23
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Why do the thumbnails not show up every once in a while? I have tried changing the picture, changing the format (jpg, gif, png)and changing the size. I have even looked at the code and it is the same as the code in posts that do have working thumbnails. I love this plugin, but why does it not work sometimes?

   my site is http://mobibookz.co.cc , you can see the Stephen King eBook does not show it's thumbnail.

   I am using arras theme.

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-most-recent-posts-mod/

2. c3lt1957
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hey Violent23,

   I have just checked and you are using different urls for these images..?
   Large img assumed to be the thumbnail of the post;
   http://mobibookz.co.cc/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tumblr_leqsq0ZdnJ1qegj70
   Then the requested image for AMRP is;
   http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=theh02b-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B002SKZBTA

   I use AMRP myself and have it set to use the first img of the post and to resize to 50px x 50px & the urls whether they are in AMRP or in the content area are all exactly the same, this makes it much easier to track down any errors.

   One other point that may help is that I also pull in content from Amazon & can sometimes have problems with trying to save the img to my server so I wondered if Amazon had certain images that were not allowed to be saved off site..?

   My own solution to this has been to stop trying to save copies of all my images to my server & simply hotlink to Amazon's images! This may not be the accepted method of doing things, but it aided the speed of my site & also stops the occasional errors that you speak of, which I don't believe are related to AMRP.

   Hope that helps

3. violent23
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Why is AMRP requesting http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=theh02b-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B002SKZBTA ? That is not the first image of the post. I use get first image of post and resize to 60x90. There is no Amazon image in my post at all. Why is AMRP trying to link to Amazon?

   I had a link to amazon for my associates. I got rid of it. I have an image on the post still, and AMRP does not want to retrieve it, why?

4. violent23
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Okay, so it seams that AMRP is not seeing my img in my post. This happens 1 out of 15 times. How is it that it does not see the img inserted in my posts? When AMRP was grabbing the Amazon img, it was part of my link to the Amazon Associates. I have since deleted the Amazon part of the link with an img width 1, height 1, but AMRP still does not want to find the only img in the post, the first one. Which I have it set to grab in the first place. What is making my first img not seen by AMRP.

5. Kailey Lampert (trepmal)
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   The code that grabs the first image hasn't been altered in the 'mod' version - it's using regex pattern matching to locate the first image

   "/<img[^']*?src=\"([^']*?)\"[^']*?>/"

   I'm not very good with regex, so if someone has a better version, I'll update the plugin with it... :)

6. c3lt1957
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Ok a suggestion,

   try a plugin for WP called "Get The Image", this is a superb plugin with many different options that are very easy to set up. Basically there is an option available to scan any article for an image, the 1st image found is set as thumbnail or if you prefer you can also set a default image, so if ever an image is not found it will at least display some image on the screen.

   Once an image is found with this plugin and assigned as thumbnail, you should have no problem with AMRP picking these thumbnails & all you need do to activate it is to place a short code within the loop.

   As I said earlier, I pull in stuff from Amazon & trying to get images to show on the index page was a real nightmare, but after installing "Get The Image" everything is sweet. Oh and it's compatable with WP versions 2.9 to 3.4.

7. violent23
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I downloaded get the image, but there are no setting for it. What am I missing? As for "placing a short code in the loop", I am sorry but I have no idea what that means.

8. violent23
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Here is the code for the img in a post that is not showing the picture in AMRP.

   <img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1873" title="I'd Know You Anywhere free ebook" src="http://mobibookz.co.cc/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/cover163.jpg" alt="" width="181" height="280" />

   Why does AMRP not see the img in that code? This is the only img in the post, and it is the first thing in the post.

9. violent23
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I can get it to show pictures for every post if I select :Get first attatched image of post" instead of "Get first image of post" but it does not resize the picture to fit like it does for "Get first image of post'.
   How d I make "Get first attatched image of post" resize to fit 60x90 like "Get first image of post does"?

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