Title: CANNOT Generate Thumbnails
Last modified: November 17, 2017

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# CANNOT Generate Thumbnails

 *  Resolved [Your Web Chick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timelymanner1/)
 * (@timelymanner1)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-generate-thumbnails/)
 * I cannot for the life of me get NGG to generate thumbnails in the gallery and
   therefore ONLY TEXT shows in the displayed gallery on the page. I thought perhaps
   it was because the server was running PHP 7.0 so I rolled it back to 5.6 and 
   that still doesn’t work.
 * Flushed the cache a dozen times. Nothing. I do the Create new thumbnails command
   from within the gallery settings and it looks like it’s working; the status bar
   goes up up up and I get the confirmation message, “Operation successful. Please
   clear your browser cache.” Clear the browser still no thumbnails. PLUS if you
   click on the text representation of any of the images, you get the error message,“
   The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.” This is making
   me crazy! What gives???
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcannot-generate-thumbnails%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Imagely](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imagely/)
 * (@imagely)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-generate-thumbnails/#post-9695075)
 * [@timelymanner1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timelymanner1/) – Please
   check your file and folder permissions for the gallery folder(s) you are using.
   These should be inheriting the same permission used in the /wp-content/ folder
   and respectively should be 0644 and 0755 for files and folders.
 * Currently there are 403 errors being reported for the images which could be pointing
   to a permissions issue in your installation.
 * Thanks!
 * – Cais.
 *  Thread Starter [Your Web Chick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timelymanner1/)
 * (@timelymanner1)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-generate-thumbnails/#post-9697625)
 * Thanks so much for your help.
 * Sure enough, the file permission for the ‘thumbs’ and ‘dynamic’ folders was 0750,
   as well as the ‘home-gallery’ folder, which is what I named this particular gallery.
 * Do you know why the permissions would have been set to 0750? I don’t think it’s
   my host as I have other websites using NGG on BlueHost and this has never happened
   before…
 *  Plugin Contributor [Imagely](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imagely/)
 * (@imagely)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-generate-thumbnails/#post-9703049)
 * [@timelymanner1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timelymanner1/) – Unfortunately,
   this is likely something best asked of your web host support team.
 * Thanks for the update!
 * – Cais.

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-generate-thumbnails/#post-9703049)
 * Status: resolved