Image Upload/Edit Borked in 2.7

Incidentally, I have done all the basic troubleshooting. As I stated above I have tried both uploders which made no difference. Also, I have tried this will ALL plugins disabled. (I use the default theme so that should not be an issue.)

I am running this on a Windows 2003 server with PHP5 and MySql (through IIS).

I am running this on a Windows 2003 server […]

I don’t have an answer but wanted to hilite that tidbit in the event someone more knowledgeable about WordPress on Windows happens to see the thread.

Thanks. I’ll take all the help I can get.

C’mon. I know I’m not the only person seeing this problem. Am I really the only person uploading images, wishing for thumbnails, and using 2.7?

Surely, somebody must know why this is happening. I have poured over the documentation and have not seen any mention of changes which might effect this functionality. I really want to fix this.

i have the problem too, it’s been bugging me for a month and everything that I’ve done has not worked.

jamespashton – I think it’s effecting a lot of folks.

What is your WP setup/system like?

Do the code changes I have posted above work for you also?

In the dashboard > settings > media, decide what size you want your thumbnails to be. I have set the thumbnail size to “height 100” and checked the box to crop to exact size. If you do not want to use that option you may want to over ride the “default” medium 650×480 & large 1024×1024 maximum sizes

Click the link to insert an image into the HTML editor. If you are uploading an image you should be be given the option to insert it as a thumbnail, small, medium, large or Full Size image. If you are selecting an image from the media library, all images have a “show” link to the right. Click the “show” link and you should have the same option to select thumbnail, small, medium, large or Full Size image.

I am having thumbnail problems but my issue has to do with thumbnail alignment. Haven’t figured it out yet.

Hummm, I re-read your post, so what I am said may be useless for you. prior to uploading, I have always sized/resized the image to the dimensions I wanted to display when the thumbnail is clicked .

I am running linux~opensuse 10.3, Firefox and WordPress 2.7 with K2
https://foodblog.jkvetter.com

Kenv – Yes, useless. Sorry. The problem we are seeing is that the thumbnail option (in both of the areas mentioned in your second paragraph) is greyed out and not available for use. We have to alter the code to get it to behave as expected. (For my part, the Settings > Media information is correctly set.)

Anybody have any news on this exciting problem?

Is the thumbnail file even generated in the uploads folder? If not, then maybe you’re missing the GD libraries in PHP, or something else.

It’s extremely hard to tell what’s wrong when you’re using IIS. WordPress was written with a normal Apache stack in mind, IIS doesn’t do things like a normal web server should.

There are no thumbnails. Never have been (even when this problem didn’t exist). Thumbnails are created on the fly by the browser, I think, based on the actual image file. This was broken and represents a change from previous versions of WP. Something changed.

No, thumbnails are NOT created on the fly by the browser. When you upload a pic, and everything works correctly, WordPress itself will create a thumbnail image, a “medium” sized image, and a “large” sized image (if the dimensions are okay), which it stores in files alongside the original image in the uploads directory. Why? Because browser resizing a) looks awful and b) takes more bandwidth.

If you’re not getting 3 or 4 files created for an image upload, then something is wrong with your server. Probably the GD library is not enabled in PHP’s ini file.

This has been the case ever since WP 2.5. Even before that, it created smaller versions of images, just not so many of them for various uses. The “GD” library is the PHP graphics library, which allows it to do high quality image resizing and cropping, unlike browsers do.

Hmmm… I’d like to see an example post, from one of the sites you’ve created, where the image was uploaded using the standard method. None of my image including posts has ever had any additional files created at upload time. When I look at the code for an image-including post there is no mention of any file aside from the main image file (no thumbnail image URL, for instance). Can you provide a link for comparison?

I have posts with images from before 2.5 that do not have all of these additional images. My image repository contains only the original uploaded image file. Here is about the oldest post I have containing an image:

https://www.soundunreason.com/InkWell/?p=39

It was published 26 July 2008. If you look at the code for that image it is like the fixed version above. (You will note there is only one image URL and no mention of a specific thumbnail file.)

As to the GD library you mention, I have never been able to find any documentation on the WP site which makes any mention of this library. I have gone over all of the installation procedures and have ensured that I have always followed all of their instructions to the letter. Perhaps I have this; perhaps I do not. PHP is not my area.

I am guessing the resizing occurs at the browser because of the URL issue I have just talked about. Further, I can right-click on one of my thumbnails and choose “Open Image (…” and the image will open without having to load anything. (Again, you can test this on the links I have thus far provided.) Wherever the resizing occurs, there is clearly only one file stored on the server.

Okay, an example then.

Post:
https://ottodestruct.com/blog/2008/10/16/advertising-and-gaming/

Image in the post (generated by WP):
https://ottodestruct.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/burnoutobama800_screen1-300×200.jpg

Original image uploaded:
https://ottodestruct.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/burnoutobama800_screen1.jpg

Thumbnail generated by WP:
https://ottodestruct.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/burnoutobama800_screen1-150×100.jpg

All these images were generated from one upload. Really. I’m not making this up, and I do know what I’m talking about here.

I have posts with images from before 2.5 that do not have all of these additional images.

Pre-2.5 did not act the same way as post-2.5 does. It did generate one smaller image, but not multiple ones.

As to the GD library you mention, I have never been able to find any documentation on the WP site which makes any mention of this library.

It’s not in the documentation, because 99% of PHP installations activate this library by default. If you install PHP, you usually get this for free, it’s not something that’s really thought to mention, much like support for other default things that’s assumed.

In your PHP.INI file, do you have extension=php_gd2.dll? Or is that commented out?

Enable the GD library. Then it will probably work properly (for new uploads only, of course).

I am guessing…

I am not. ??

That line does exist but it is commented out. I will uncomment and report back.

(I never doubted you’re knowledge; I was only trying to wedge my experience into what had been said.)