Thumbnails not showing up on my homepage.. need help please

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by thor2006, Mar 22, 2012.

  1. #1
    Hi there,

    I'm using Arthemia theme since I started my blog.
    It was perfectly working well until recently, when some the thumbnails are not loading anymore.
    It uses thimthumb.
    I've been searching for possible fix but it's getting frustrated.
    My blog: http://bloggingfornetworking.com

    Any help would be highly appreciated.

    Thor
     
    thor2006, Mar 22, 2012 IP
  2. waziuz

    waziuz Active Member

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    Never used Arthemia but if the theme uses timthumb them make sure the relevant files and folders have the correct set of permissions. If you are using Hostgator, then you might need to get your website whitelisted for timthumb resized images to appear.
     
    waziuz, Mar 23, 2012 IP
  3. seopush

    seopush Peon

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    There are many possible reasons on why your thumbnail not showing, whether it is too large or too small to show off with the HTML control you have used. Also check whether the path you provide for your thumbnail images is correct or not or if you have used any tools or plug-in at back hand to create thumbnail, check whether it works correctly or not.
     
    seopush, Apr 3, 2012 IP
  4. ironmarine

    ironmarine Greenhorn

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    If you are hosted with HostGator then you will need to contact them in order to get thumbnails to work. By default, as mentioned above, they have mod_security settings enabled that do not allow the script to function. Also, HostGator does not allow 777 permissions. Instead, you should CHMOD your cache folder to 755. Also make sure that timthumb.php is set to 644.

    Hope this helps:
    1. Change the permissions of the (theme file)/script to to 777
    2. For some reason the timthumb.php was not aut generating a /cache folder so I created one manually in the same location where the timthumb.php file was located and set the /cache files permissions to 777
    3. Then, the most important step (you can try this first if you want)

    On wordpress, download via ftp your wp-config.php file and add this line just after define ('WPLANG', ''); to allow for caching:

    define("WP_CACHE", true);

    Then upload your edited wp-config.php file and replace the existing one.
     
    ironmarine, Apr 6, 2012 IP