Thumbnail Image option = Greyed out…2.7 wordpress

My server has gd-2.0.28-5.4E btw and my host is mediatemple.

I have the same problem as sjogro.
I have also my own webserver and no idea what GD is.
This was the solution for me:
a) First delete the picture.
b) executed this from my webserver (logged in as root):
# apt-get install php5-gd
# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
c) Then I uploaded the picture again, and everything works fine now.

[source: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ubuntu-linux-install-or-add-php-gd-support-to-apache/ ]

Reinstalled php5, deleted images, started over, still not fixed.

Anyone else using podpress? I deactivated it and got the buttons back. Although it still isn’t working right.

Yep, I a am using Podpress. I run several WordPress sites and only one with Podpress. After activating GD all the sites EXCEPT the one running Podpress were able to create thumbnails. Looks like Podpress is at issue. However I have no idea why the image resizing does not work when Podpress is activated. Very problematic. ugh…

Check the Pixel size of the images.

I found that smaller images seem to work perfectly.

Don’t know if it helps and I’ve not established the parameters but I found that the images it would not re-size on our 2.7.1 MU sites were huge – 3000px x 2500 px.

That was the only thing that cured it for us. Tried de-activating all the plugins to no avail. I only realised what the issue was when comparing 2 of our 2.7.1 MU installs. I found that one offered all the thumbnail options but the other refused. Only difference between the sites was image sizes. 150 x 150 originals seem to work OK.

Hi People,

I solved my problem! This forum was a big help and I certainly appreciate the time you guys invested in it.
After trying everything possible on my end (rolling back flash to v.9, trying different size images, different format images, images saved with different programs, installing and reinstalling plugins etc.), I gave up and told my server guy to recheck the PHP server setup, even though he was sure that GD is there and properly configured.

This is his response after which everything started behaving like it should. I hope this helps:

“Looking back through everything we had compiled support for jpeg… or so I thought we had… but it turns out you had to do a make clean or the configuration didn’t recognize the new options. Anyway, I ran a phpinfo() and it shows support for jpeg so I think we’re probably good but try it out and let me know.”

Running into the same issues with uploading images and sizes on the wp media library. The sizes do match what I put in the media settings. Then when I go to a post to insert a image all the sizes are screwed and under sizes it only shows 3 of 4 available sizes. Thumbnail Medium and Full Size no large?

I am running:
WordPress 2.8.5.
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix)
PHP: v5.2.3
GD: bundled (2.0.34 compatible)

I went through high and low and still having issues.
I deactivated all plugins. Reactivated 1 by 1. – No luck
I am not running podpress

Please help this is extremely frustrating…

This is a very weird and annoying problem. I got everything running smoothly on my Fedora desktop. However when I loaded WordPress on the production Ubuntu server (hardy) it crapped out. GD in installed and properly configured (with JPEG support and so on).

I took a look at the code. This problem occurs because function wp_get_attachment_metadata() returns a hash without ‘sizes’ key. And that hash is returned by a call to apply_filters(). From there is gets a bit murky and I’ve already spend more time on this then I should have. It would be nice if someone from the development team would take it from there.

I am having the same problem. I can upload a picture, but there are no thumbnails or really any options for them. So I tried reinstalling and even did a little dance for my blog. (BTW I run like 10+ of these things or webmaster them…) anyway…

PodPress = the devil in my case. Once I deleted the plugin on the one blog that stopped working it is now fine. I didn’t use PodPress that much on the blog in question so it wasn’t that bad of a thing for me to do.

podPress was the problem for me as well