Title: [Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Thumbnails not generating
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Thumbnails not generating

 *  [hereintokyo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hereintokyo/)
 * (@hereintokyo)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-thumbnails-not-generating/)
 * I searched the many topics on this plugin, but could not find anything exactly
   matching my problem.
 * I have just done a new install of Next Gen and things seem to be working fine,
   except thumbnails are not generating.
 * I have confirmed that the gallery folder is set to 777, and when I create a new
   gallery, a new folder is generated which is also set to 777, and there is a thumbnail
   folder, also set to 777, but nothing is created in the thumbnail folder. The 
   only possible cause I have found is that my wp-content/uploads/ folder has my
   custom group and owner (my user name) and the gallery folder generated by the
   plugin has a “www-data” owner. But since all of these are set to 777,
 * Any help would be appreciated.
 * Thanks.

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 *  [kowiepro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kowiepro/)
 * (@kowiepro)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-thumbnails-not-generating/#post-1470131)
 * Hi Hereintokyo
 * I’ve just installed NExtGen after upgrading to WP 2.9.2 and experienced the same
   problem. I then selected the bulk option to “generate new thumbnails” under manage
   gallery and it updated all the thumbnails whereafter they also showed up in my
   posts.
 * Hope this bypass helps untill the problem is solved.
 *  Thread Starter [hereintokyo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hereintokyo/)
 * (@hereintokyo)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-thumbnails-not-generating/#post-1470139)
 * kowiepro, Thank you for that.
 * I tried generating new thumbnails and got an error: “GD library not installed.”
   But If did find the file gd.thumbnail.inc.php in the plugin lib folder. I have
   used next gen before in WP 2.9.1 with no problems. This was a new install of 
   the plugin on a site that started as 2.9.2, and I have this problem. It might
   be a compatibility issue.
 * Do I need to install the full GD library somewhere?

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 * Last reply from: [hereintokyo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hereintokyo/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-thumbnails-not-generating/#post-1470139)
 * Status: not resolved

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