Plugin (v2.2.4) Breaks Meta Data on 3.9

  • Hello All,

    This plugin does regenerate attachment image sizes, but it breaks attachment meta data. This causes wp get attachment image src() and other similar image size related functions to fall back to the full size.

    Be warned! (Also, fyi, the force regenerate thumnails plugin does not seem to have this issue)

    To the developer, Alex Mills (Viper007Bond), thank you for all of your hard work on this well regarded plugin. But, and I hope you are able to quickly fix this issue soon, as I’m sure you can understand that people may be upset if the plugin breaks their attachment images’ metadata.

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  • Can you please elaborate on this? I can’t see what you’re talking about. My plugin works fine with 3.9 from what I can tell. Tell us more please. Thank you. Metadata looks OK here.

    Thread Starter nickiaq

    (@nickiaq)

    Sure thing.

    Background:
    I am developing a new theme from the ground up to replace the existing theme on a site with posts and media going back to 2004. It has ~8 custom post types, ~10 custom taxonomies, and custom widgets, metaboxes and fields, but it maintains backwards compatibility with the old theme with the exception of new metaboxes/fields. This new theme, however, uses different image sizes, which is a very small difference in light of other changes.

    So, I have the theme nearly complete and wanted to do a test of migrating all of the users/posts/attachments and such. And, after some work in mysql to fix some of the other incompatibilities with taxonomies, I wanted to use this plugin to regenerate the images in the new image sizes.

    The Nitty Gritty:
    However, after regenerating thumbnails for hours (pictures since 2004!!), wp_get_attachment_image_src() and similar functions would not work with any custom image sizes. Instead of getting the custom size, the images/src/etc would get the full size.

    I did some research and found that people have had trouble in the past (with this plugin) with clearing meta data. That is to say that the plugin will re-crop the images (ie. the files exist), but wp_get_attachment_metadata() would be empty.

    Conclusion:
    It is entirely possible that something with my setup is conflicting with the plugin. But, I thought I would put my trouble out there for others to know.

    Is this still a concern? I want to regenerate sizes on a website with custom sizes.

    What issues, if any, can I expect?

    Thank-you for a very useful plugin.

    Thread Starter nickiaq

    (@nickiaq)

    I ended up using Force Regenerate Thumbnails instead.

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