I might include this feature in the next release of my plugin. It’ll take a couple of weeks, though, as I’m rewriting my plugin to make it multi-widget capable (you’ll be able to show multiple instances of my plugin on your blog!).
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Ikki – I would need some help from you with the popular posts plugin. Been trying to get it to work for a week now, but without success.
Everything work good except the thumbnails. They appear “broken” (i.e. there is no image because it can´t be found).
And when I look at the path where it tries to retrieve the image I DO understand that it can´t find it:
example:
http://www.caputmundicibus.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.caputmundicibus.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/IMG_3010-2.jpg&h=70&w=70&zc=1
Where does it go wrong? In your plugin or in timthumb?
Thank you for any help!
/ john
ellohn, have you checked that:
a) Your host is running PHP 4.3+ or higher?
b) Your host has enabled the GD library?
c) Your wordpress-popular-posts/scripts/cache plugin exists and is writable by timthumb.php?
P.S.: by the way, I incorporated a function to retrieve the views count of each post on the dev version of my plugin 😉 Will release WordPress Popular Posts 2.0 once I’m done testing its stability (and it seems to be pretty stable so far).
Sorry, just read your reply in another thread and you did check all those things already.
If your cache folder is writable (you chmodded it 777, right?), the GD library is there and your host is running php 4.3+ or higher… the only thing I can think of right now is that your host is restricting some php functions needed for timthumb to recreate the thumbnails from your posts’ images. I’m just guessing, so don’t trust me on this. I’m testing my plugin on a known free webhost and it seems to be running smoothly, though.
Sorry I can’t be of more help.
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Ok, so now I fixed it temporarily (and hope this doesn´t mess with stats and so on)
Seemed to be a problem with paths. Not sure what, but anyway timthumb.php couldn´t be found in the scripts folder although it was there. Moved it together with the cache folder to website root, and now it works splendid.
Will I have a problem running timthumb from root?
Another thing – the whole thing looks pretty messed up (especially in firefox) although I now have thumbnails! 🙂
Any tips on formatting? (Maybe even have thumbnail on one line and then start a new line for title etc)
How can I make Firefox expand the section where my popular posts are (like IE does) to fit?
Thanks!
http://www.caputmundicibus.com
As far as I know, timthumb does work on webroot… just make sure you set the right path when using it!
About the styling issue, I can’t promise anything but if possible I’ll stop by your site and check it out once I get my PC working again (broke down during late December, haven’t been able to fix it yet).
