Thumbnails Stopped Showing

  • Resolved charleymediumrare

    (@charleymediumrare)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    I have been using the WPP plugin with great success for the last 4 months on digitalsteak.com

    Today, I’ve noticed that the sidebar widget is now showing ‘No Thumbnail’ instead of the featured image.

    The widget has Thumbnails activated with a size set to 400 x 125. In my uploads folder, there is a 400 x 125 image.

    I am using a custom html output of:

    <li class="clearfix">{thumb} {title} {stats}</li>

    The plugin is picking the thumbnail from the featured image

    I have not made any changes to the WP version and only updated WordPress SEO by Yoast and Google Sitemap Generator recently. I have tried deactivating all plugins but this doesn’t resolve it.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/

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  • Thread Starter charleymediumrare

    (@charleymediumrare)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    I’ve resolved the issue but would be interested to know why it worked…

    I had my uploads folder with permissions 755. I’ve set that to 777 and it now works fine

    Any ideas?

    Plugin Author Hector Cabrera

    (@hcabrera)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Hi charleymediumrare,

    The only thing I can think of now is that the issue might be server-related. Has your host made changes to it? PHP (WordPress) might be unable to write to your Uploads folder.

    Thread Starter charleymediumrare

    (@charleymediumrare)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    HI Hector,

    All sorted as it was a permissions error on the uploads folder but still not 100% how that had changed!

    Thanks,

    Plugin Author Hector Cabrera

    (@hcabrera)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    When you give 777 permissions to a folder, anything (and anyone!) gets granted permissions to do write-read-execute actions on it (which is not safe, as you might guess). If the plugin was able to create thumbnails and now it can’t, my guess is that your host made changes that prevent(ed) PHP from writing to that folder (that is, create the images).

    Thread Starter charleymediumrare

    (@charleymediumrare)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Yep, still looking into this as it’s just a bare box from Digital Ocean. Probably means it’s something I’ve changed and not realised! Thanks, Hector

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