I tried to Generate Thumbnails and Store – and it failed. I created the directory plugins/link-library-images as directed after attempting to generate the first time, added write permissions, and then got a message that thumbs were generated successfully, but the directory was empty and there are no thumbs. But generating the static images sounds preferable. Anything obvious I’m doing wrong?
I have a long list of links, and have experienced your problem. Have even had some disappear – were there yesteryday, now “image coming soon”.
I did manage to get fresh images for some sites. You have to go to thumbshots.com, create an account, then follow “Products -> thumbshot images – > update thumbshots” and type in the address of the site you want.
Problem I’ve noticed is that thumbshots of user accounts won’t update – like a wordpress.com user blog, for example. Perhaps there could be an option in Link Library to specify an alternate image from your own media library for sites that don’t have good thumbshots.
