Comments on: Adding TimThumb To Your WordPress Theme

By: Chad Von Lind

Chad Von Lind — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:05:56 +0000

As much as I love helping folks out, I'm gonna have to close this comment thread and start directing traffic to the Timthumb Support Forum »

By: thegirlinthecafe

thegirlinthecafe — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:30:58 +0000

I have a very weird problem with Timthumb. The thumbs get generated but somehow they don’t get displayed, only when I do a ctrl-f5 (forced refresh) I am wrecking my brains over this but simply don’t understand what goes wrong.

Any tips are much appreciated!

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:07:57 +0000

ok, Thanks again for your help! Much appreciated!

By: Chad Von Lind

Chad Von Lind — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:04:26 +0000

Timthumb does not handle external images. So you’ll have to be sure to host the images on the same domain that timthumb is hosted on. I’m not sure about the other problems.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:40:45 +0000

I have been playing around now for a while and I it’s sort-of working.

I copied a image url of the standard thumbnail on my theme and pasted it into the custom field, and what do u know, it worked, both thumbnail and big image (I could tell the image was unclear because it expanded a small picture.).

Then I tried an external Image url, nuthing at all worked. No thumb, no big image.

Then I cropped an image to 250×250 and uploaded via ftp to the /img folder (same folder as the link above.), and the thumbnail worked! but not the big image.

The img folder is 755, the image file that worked (profile-photo-thumb.jpg) is 644, same as new image that was uploaded there.

The cache folder seems full of files, so somethings working there.

Uploading images via article doesnt seem to work, the upload is successfull but can’t view the image, don;t know if this has anything to do with it.

Otheriwse sorry for spamming your comments! I hope this isnt asking too much!

By: Chad Von Lind

Chad Von Lind — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:25:02 +0000

Hi Jason, Looks like you got it working. Enjoy!

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:51:44 +0000

Hey Chad, thnx for the responce. when I tried to access timthumb the way you mentioned I got an internal error saying that it was writeable by group. So I logged in ftp and saw it was 777, changed it to 755 and now it says “no image specified”. I tried 777 and 755 on the cache folder. Unfortuenatly no luck yet, any ideas?

By: Chad Von Lind

Chad Von Lind — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:46:21 +0000

Hi Jason, When I call timthumb directly it doesnt give me the normal msg. Have you made any mods to it? Are you sure that timthumb.php is located in /awp-dating/

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:43:18 +0000

Hi Chad, nice tutorial but some how I can’t get this working in my current theme. No image shows, but I have set the permissions to the script folder and cache folder, but nuthing happens. The image url is a jpg. Any ideas?

thanks

By: Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:42:07 +0000

Worked perfectly! Thanks for the post.