[Plugin: Special Recent Posts] Some thumbnails not displaying – the final solution!

I have the same issue… (see my website)

Any Assistance??

Yeah i have the same issue

this started happening on all our sites around the same time… what could have triggered it?

My thumbnails show up fine, for about 2 seconds and then show an error icon!

So what’s the solution?

Exactly the same problem for me.

Answers please, anyone at Special Recent Posts?

Same for me. This developer sucks. Clearly, this is a huge issue. They acknowledge the issue on their sites but still everyone is having this problem. Their solutions do not solve anything. I’m pissed. I thought I had finally found a decent recent posts plugin to do what WP should just do on its own (frankly the oddest thing that WP does such a horrible job of pushing post excerpts to pages after all these years and all of these WP updates). Alas, I’ve given up on this lame plugin. Back to the gutter of other options. I’m pissed.

I actually purchased the Special Recent Posts Pro plugin and I don’t have any more image issues.

I just installed this plugin about 5 minutes ago and had the same issue.

I found that the phpimage.php was throwing an error due to not having a width and height set in the options.

I am using the PHP hook in my template.

<?php
// Defining widget options.
$args = array(
	'srp_number_post_option'  => 5,
	'srp_thumbnail_wdg_width' => 635,
	'srp_thumbnail_wdg_height' => 239
);

// Function call.
special_recent_posts($args);
?>

Hope this helps!

Hey Wiz Tech, could you give us a link to where you found the Special Recent Posts Pro plugin? Is that the paid version of the SAME plugin we are talking about (which is what something like $6?) or another one you found?

Thanks! I turned the thumbnails off on ours, would like to see them showing again!

Maggie
p.s. I put Special Recent Posts Pro into Google and went to the first post. They just did an update on August 18th? Wonder if they worked on the thumbnails???

So is this what you said finally is working again?
https://codecanyon.net/item/special-recent-posts-pro/552356

JMFriday-

Thanks. I am stupid; please can you explain in a little more detail? Did you add this code to a place in phpimage.php?

If so where? Or somewhere else?

Regards,
Mike

Hi SpookD,

It’s no problem. That code I posted is made to go into a template file.

I did not have to make any changes to the coding of the plugin.

My previous code was in my template file called home.php.

If you’re not familiar with making custom templates that may be confusing for you.

I would try the following shortcode, I did not have a chance to test it as I moved on to another solution after playing with this plugin. Although I was able to get it to work, it still didn’t meet all my needs. Good luck and let us know if this works out for you!

[srp srp_number_post_option='5' srp_thumbnail_wdg_width='635' srp_thumbnail_wdg_height='239']

I emailed the developer of SR posts and he gave me this response,

“I’m aware of the SRP Free issues but unfortunally due to personal reasons i haven’t been able to stay in the queue for supporting all these issues coming from the free version.

At the moment i’ve quite finished a new version (1.9.5) which will probably resolve a ton of issues related to the free version. So please stay tuned. Thank You.”

YAY!
Let’s hope that it does!
I turned my thumbnails off for now.

It would be GREAT if whomever notices the new version is available would post something here so we all get notified!

Thanks for emailing him. Seems to have worked this time.