Title: New plugin: Post Thumbs
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# New plugin: Post Thumbs

 *  [callmeforsox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sunscream/)
 * (@sunscream)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-post-thumbs/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I made a new plugin called [Post Thumbs](http://theblemish.com/post-thumbs-plugin/)
   to share. It has barely been tested, so if anyone tries it and has some problems
   hopefully I’ll know what’s wrong. It works on my site fine.
 * What it does is scan a post for an included image and convert that image into
   a thumbnail to be used in The Loop. You could use this to show a list of posts
   as thumbnail links if you wanted. It will only work for images that reside on
   your server. No support for cross domain images as of yet.
 * The documentation is shoddy, but it’ll have to do for now. If anyone has any 
   suggestions, feel free to reply. The plugin is [here](http://theblemish.com/post-thumbs-plugin/).

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 *  [feverinlove](https://wordpress.org/support/users/feverinlove/)
 * (@feverinlove)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-post-thumbs/page/3/#post-462664)
 * This didnt work:
 * <?php previous_post_link(‘« echo tb_post_thumb()’) ?>
 * it output text tb_post_thumb()
 *  Thread Starter [callmeforsox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sunscream/)
 * (@sunscream)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-post-thumbs/page/3/#post-462665)
 * [@wagawaga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wagawaga/)
    Video regex if you
   are using the extreme video plugin like me would be: [gv data=”(.*?)”][\gv] You
   may want to look up how to do regex if you have something else.
 * Video default image is the URL to where the image is.
 * Folder name, append, prepend text is where the thumbnail is saved to.
 * Example
    folder name: thumbs append: thumb Script will make a thumbnail out of
   example.jpg, save it into thumbs folder and rename example.jpg to example_thumb.
   jpg
 * @fevermore
    This can only be used in The Loop because it scans the post for an
   image. There might be a way to make a new loop to get the next and previous posts
   and generate your own code.
 *  [theiconoclast31](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theiconoclast31/)
 * (@theiconoclast31)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-post-thumbs/page/3/#post-462666)
 * My thumbnails don’t seem to resize before they crop, so I end up with thumbnails
   that have a 75×75 patch of sky ([Examples](http://eastside-online.org/), scroll
   down a bit, left side) I’m using the tag `<?php echo tb_post_thumb(false, '',
   75, 75, 75, 75); ?>`
 * Am I doing something incorrect with the template tag? The thumbnails on your 
   site are so nicely done.
 *  [wagawaga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wagawaga/)
 * (@wagawaga)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-post-thumbs/page/3/#post-462667)
 * Hi, very intersted to use this plug in.
 * I have got a multimedia category in my wordpress page, and i’m using coolplayer
   as the plug in to display it in my post.
 * I would like to display the multimedia category in my sidebar, using exclue plug
   in to exclue it from the main post, and would like to display the catagoerry 
   with the thumb of the you tube or google video.
 * Could you please give me direction on how to do it?
 * I’ve installed the plug in and need exact direction. I’m not suer whether i can
   do this because what said it just can be used within the loop
 *  [emanoelmelo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emanoelmelo/)
 * (@emanoelmelo)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-post-thumbs/page/3/#post-462668)
 * I see that theiconoclast31 also did have the same problem that I: we still cant
   delete the thumbs because of permissions, even changing that line to 0777, the
   server still says that the owner of the thumbs files and folders is ‘nobody’.
   
   Strangely, i installed wordpress and this plugin on another server, and using
   the same files, i did was able to delete the thumbs generated even without change
   that line! The problem could be resoled at this step, but i cant stay with my
   files at this server, so comming back to the old one, with that very problem 
   of permissions, what should i do people???
 *  [elena10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elena10/)
 * (@elena10)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-post-thumbs/page/3/#post-462669)
 * Thank you for writing this plug-in. What a great idea.
    Everything is going well,
   but now I am trying to adding the echo code to index.php.
 * I got this bit of code from the forum,
    <div class=”post-image”><?php echo tb_post_thumb(
   true, ‘alt text’, 0, 0, 120, 20); ?></div>
 * but it only pastes my big default image at the top of my post.
 * In your image.php file, where did you insert your new code?
    (Also, I noticed
   you gave sidebar code in an earlier post to wordpress China but that didn’t work
   for me. Where did you put that code?)
 * Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [callmeforsox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sunscream/)
 * (@sunscream)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-post-thumbs/page/3/#post-462670)
 * For those of you having problems with deleting files, can you test this out? 
   On line 102 in post-thumbs.php there should be `$thumb->outputFile($save_dir."/".
   $rename_to, "");`. After that line put in `chmod($save_dir."/".$rename_to,0666);`
 * [@theiconoclast31](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theiconoclast31/)
    What
   does it look like when you set the resize to 75×75 in the options panel? And 
   if you tick crop exact in the options panel? On your site it looks like the image
   is cropping to the size. What does the full image look like?
 * [@wagawaga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wagawaga/)
    I’m not sure how 
   that plugin would work with my plugin. When I have some time, I might be able
   to check it out. Do you have a link?
 * [@elana10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elana10/)
    `<div class="post-image"
   ><?php echo tb_post_thumb(true, 'alt text'); ?></div>` Does that also give a 
   default image? This only works when used in The Loop.
 *  [Marcomail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcomail/)
 * (@marcomail)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-post-thumbs/page/3/#post-462671)
 * Is possible create thumbs of external server image ? I host all the image in 
   a different site, but i would have thumbs for this…is possible do it ?
 *  [theiconoclast31](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theiconoclast31/)
 * (@theiconoclast31)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-post-thumbs/page/3/#post-462672)
 * > [@theiconoclast31](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theiconoclast31/)
   >  What
   > does it look like when you set the resize to 75×75 in the options panel? And
   > if you tick crop exact in the options panel? On your site it looks like the
   > image is cropping to the size. What does the full image look like?
 * I played around with the PHP file to display multiple sized thumbnails. I basically
   copied the entire function, renamed it, and then changed a few things like the
   default image location, etc. I just changed some of the variables to numbers 
   and removed a few of the conditional statements, and now it’s working.
 * So on my wishlist for the next version: Multiple thumbnails with different sizes,
   etc. 😀
 *  [emanoelmelo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emanoelmelo/)
 * (@emanoelmelo)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-post-thumbs/page/3/#post-462673)
 * sunscream,
    it still does not works. The permission for the thumb files are not
   666 or 777, but 644…
 *  [soswiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soswiss/)
 * (@soswiss)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-post-thumbs/page/3/#post-462679)
 * sunscream, I’m new into the world of wordpress and php but am learning…
    I can’t
   make your plugin work: I’m on an apache server : [http://dellserver/wordpress](http://dellserver/wordpress)
   In the option fields I put:
 * d. name: /wordpress
    def. img. : /wordpress/logo3.png f.d.n. :[http://dellserver/wordpress](http://dellserver/wordpress)
   b. path :/wordpress
 * Then I don’t know WHERE to put your code and WHICH code in order to see thumbnails(
   in my sidebar) of the pictures in my posts?
 * I tried to add this code of yours in my sidebar:
 * <?php
    $posts = get_posts(‘numberposts=6&offset=9&order=DESC’); foreach($posts
   as $post) : setup_postdata($post); $post_link = tb_post_thumb(true,$post->post_title);
   if ( !empty($post_link) ) { echo $post_link; } endforeach; ?>
 * nothing happens and if I write
 * <?php echo tb_post_thumb(true, ‘test’, 0, 0, 60, 60) ?> in my sidebar,only the
   default image appears and in full size????
    Anyone could help me to use this 
   plugin?
 * Thanks in advance…
 *  [soswiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soswiss/)
 * (@soswiss)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-post-thumbs/page/3/#post-462680)
 * Hi again, I figured out a few things on my own (after a long night without sleep
   😉 but still have errors:
 * I left the paths as shown in my previous post and still can’t see thumbnails 
   of my pictures but I managed to obtain the default picture as shortcut. In addition
   the resizing option doesn’t work for me, could it be due to a mistake in the 
   paths as well?
    Thanks a lot for your help…
 *  [soswiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soswiss/)
 * (@soswiss)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-post-thumbs/page/3/#post-462681)
 * By the way, thank you so much for your work, when I’ll manage to make it work
   this plugin is going to be great 🙂
    I’m still trying and achieved a few new 
   steps. So I can make either the default image or the alt text in the sidebar 
   and figured out how to use the function but there is no way that a thumbnail 
   will appear. I tried all the base paths, domains, domain names and so on. Again,
   I’m on a local apache server (please read one of my previous blog with the configuration).
   Should the default image be resized as well? In my case it’s not… Thank you.
 *  [Marcomail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcomail/)
 * (@marcomail)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-post-thumbs/page/3/#post-462682)
 * is use this code for the sidebar:
 * <?php $wp_query->query_vars[“cat”] = 3; ?>
    <?php $wp_query->query_vars[“showposts”]
   = 4; ?> <?php $wp_query->get_posts(); ?> <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()):
   the_post(); ?> <?php echo tb_post_thumb(); ?> <?php endwhile; else: ?> <h2>Not
   Found</h2> <p><?php _e(“Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.”);?
   ></p> <?php endif; ?>`
 * In the homepage works good, but if i move in the single.php i see in the thumb
   the image in the single post, and not for cat = 3
 *  [beku76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beku76/)
 * (@beku76)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-post-thumbs/page/3/#post-462683)
 * thanks for this great plugin,
    I have 2 questions
 * 1) I can’t manage to make it work for showing the next/previous post thumbs…
   
   <?php previous_post_link(‘« echo tb_post_thumb()’) ?> this does not work even
   if I put it in the loop 🙁
 * 2) is there any way to display RANDOM thumbs?
 * thanks again

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