Slider thumbnails are broken links

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• Started 1 year ago by Mike
• Latest reply from Chris Beard
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   Mike
   Member

   greetings -- i'm working with a fresh WP 3.2.1 install (network), a fresh database, and fresh Twicet install. My slider posts, with images and text, are working as expected, but thumbnails appear as broken images.

   The website is for an internet-novice, so i would like to determine why they are not being generated automatically, as opposed to going 'manual' and sizing/placing individual images for thumbnails as a solution.

   Twicet reports that my server has the necessary graphics packages installed, automatic re-sizing is enabled, and permissions are opened up on my /uploads and /cache folders. I'd appreciate any help in troubleshooting this, be it Twicet or my server packages.

   Thanks for your help ---

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Mike
   Member

   here is the link to the site being built http://i-fiction.net/~bnj/

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Dude
   Dude

   Hey,
   the thumbnails - i.e.: http://i-fiction.net/~bnj/wp-content/themes/twicet/timthumb.php?src=http://i-fiction.net/~bnj/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/500x350.jpg&w=44&h=30&zc=1

   give me a 404 not found error which indicates a problem with the timthumb image generation. Kriesi released an update yesterday which incorporates the latest timthumb version (v2+). It's highly recommended to update asap because the old timthumb script can be used to attack/hack your server. Maybe the updates solves your problem too. Please download the update at themeforest.net and replace the old files with the updated files (mentioned in version.rtf).

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Mike
   Member

   Dude,

   i'm afraid updating the timthumb.php file did not fix my problem.

   I removed the uploaded test images, removed the test posts, updated timthumb.php (and style.css), created new posts and uploaded new images. The problem persists.

   ---

   Is it possible to change my password in this forum? i can't seem to find an option...

   Posted 1 year ago #
5. 

   Mike
   Member

   some things i have noted for troubleshooting:

   i expected that, being in a network set up, the media and posts would be under .../wp-content/blogs.dir/ ... this is not the case, so far the first site is putting content in to /uploads ... this may be the proper operation, but the network feature is new to me. The site is installed in a root location, as WP requests, however it does not have a domain name.

   could the fact that this is a network set up, compounded with the site being in a 'sandbox' without a domain name, be making timthumb skip a beat? The application goes beyond my PHP knowledge to troubleshoot.

   Thanks for your help.

   Posted 1 year ago #
6. 

   Chris Beard
   

   Hey,
   when you upload media the media is supposed to go to the uploads folder, running your site locally could form some problems with a wrong setup but it should work as on a normal host.
   If the thumbnails don't work as they're supposed to I'd suggest you download the latest version of the theme from Themeforest and try a clean installation (of the thee), this way we ensure it's not the theme but rather edits/plugins malfunctioning.

   Posted 1 year ago #
7. 

   Mike
   Member

   Chris,

   I've already perform a virgin install of the latest Twicet to verify the problem.

   Regards -

   Posted 1 year ago #
8. 

   Chris Beard
   

   I'll contact Kriesi to check this problem.
   As for your forum password you should be able to change it here if you haven't already.

   Posted 1 year ago #
9. 

   Kriesi
   Key Master

   Hey! I can only make an educated guess on this one but it might be possible that timthumb has problems with the ~ character in your url.

   Another problem with timthumb ist that is has problems running on wordpress multisite installations. do you use a multisite installation or a default wordpress installation?

   Cheers
   Kriesi

   Posted 1 year ago #
10. 

    Mike
    Member

    Kriesi,

    it is a multisite installation. I suppose the only thing we can do is see how Timthumb performs when it has a real URL. I'll let you know what happens when we launch in a couple weeks; if i have to create icons to use in place of auto-generated slide thumbnails, so be it. Thanks for looking in to this.

    Posted 1 year ago #
11. 

    Kriesi
    Key Master

    timthumb has a known problem with multisite installations. you might want to google for "timthumb with multisite" and check out one of the tutorials ;)

    cheers

    Kriesi

    Posted 1 year ago #
12. 

    halmaclean
    Member

    Not sure if my issue is related or not - I have just moved my wordpress to a new server and updated the DNS. All is working as expected except the thumbnails... they show as broken images - or rather, as red 'X's.

    It worked great before the move - could this be solved with updating the timthumb.php file? If so, where would I find the update?

    See the issue here: http://www.talkspark.co.uk

    Posted 1 year ago #
13. 

    halmaclean
    Member

    PS - am running v2.8 of timthumb script.

    Posted 1 year ago #
14. 

    Chris Beard
    

    Hi,

    I believe this plugin can help you.

    Posted 1 year ago #

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