Post thumbs revisited

  • Hi,

    Apologies for my complete ignorance. I’ve looked all over the place for a clear guide to this but i can’t seem to get my head it at all and it’s becoming extremely frustrating!

    I’m using The Morning After Theme and have installed the Post Thumbs revisited plug in and activated it but i’m clearly getting all the paths wrong in the basic options. I can’t seem to understand at all what the instructions are saying. My thumbs are never created in recent posts automatically and i just get the default image of a black square with blue lightning through it. The instructions say…

    Absolute path to website. For example, /httpdocs or /yourdomain.com. Used to find location of thumbnails on server. https://yourdomain.com/images/pth/thumb_picture.jpg would actually be /httpdocs/images/pth/thumb_picture.jpg. No trailing ‘/’

    what does this mean???

    It then says…

    Folder name

    Set the relative path to thumbs. Make sure directory exists and is writable. No trailing ‘/’

    Does this mean i have to create a folder or there already is one?

    This is driving me nuts. Sorry again…i’m a complete novice at this and have hit a brick wall! Many thanks for your help guys!

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  • Are you using an FTP program because it might be a little more clear what this means. Typically your web files are held in a folder titled httpdocs. You can try this: create a new html page with the following code:

    <?php
echo '<pre>';
print_r($_SERVER);
echo '</pre>';
?>

    Then save the file as test.php and place it to the root directory. Next open this page in your browser https://www.mysite.com/test.php this will show you the absolute path to your root then add the remaining folders. for example: https://www.mysite.com/images/pth

    You may need to create the “pth” folder and make it writable which is typically done by right clicking it and checking all the permissions until it reads 777.

    I’m trying to keep this simple so hopefully this helps.

    https://www.doc4design.com

    I’m also having problems…

    How do I get Post Thumb Revisited to “generate” the thumbnail when the image is not embedded IN my post, but simply attached to it. I don’t want an image in my post. But, it only generates a thumbnail when the image is in the post. Please help.

    I had this plugin working beautifully before, until I updated to the latest WP (from 2.6 though). It won’t create the thumbnails anymore, even though I have the directory set to 777 and the path is correct, I believe. Been going over the FAQ here: https://code.google.com/p/post-thumb-revisited/wiki/FAQ but still no dice.

    Anybody else get this working properly with the latest WP?

    Thanks.

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