Thumbnail Issues

Resolved fisnollo
(@anollo)

11 years, 7 months ago

I installed the plugin last night and am having a couple of issues with thumbnails.

1) For posts that do not have a Featured Image, Contextly is pulling an image from the overall page, but not always from the post itself. In some cases, this means it’s pulling an unrelated image from the sidebar, including sponsor advertisement images.

2) In trying to replace thumbnails for affected posts, I’ve added featured images, but the thumbnails are not updating. I’ve tried the work-around suggested in https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/old-images without success.

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Plugin Author rsingel
(@rsingel)

11 years, 7 months ago

Hi Fisnolio,

Can you drop a note to us at info @ contextly.com with urls for both 1 and 2.

The replacement of the images does take a little time due to caching, but would like to see if something’s not working the way it should.

Thanks,

RS

Thread Starter fisnollo
(@anollo)

11 years, 7 months ago

Thanks for the quick reply. I’m sending an email with links now.

Thread Starter fisnollo
(@anollo)

11 years, 7 months ago

FYI, I need to disable the plugin for now, since I can’t control what thumbnails appear. If you need to see further examples, let me know and I can either re-enable it temporarily or create a clone for test purposes.

bsac
(@bsac)

11 years, 7 months ago

Hello,

The 3rd recommendation that show up here…:

http://www.stencilsearch.com/ideas/fabric/stenciled-halloween-pillows/

…contains an incorrect image to an ad.

However, when I go to that page…:

http://www.stencilsearch.com/stencils/halloween-totes/

…the Contextly metadata (contextly-page) indicates this is the featured image you updated:

http://www.stencilsearch.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/martha-totes.jpg

But that url does not appear to be valid. It redirects back to your home page. Did you intend to use one of the following urls as the featured image?:

http://www.stencilsearch.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/martha-totes-300×243.jpg

http://www.stencilsearch.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/boo-bags-300×231.jpg

http://www.stencilsearch.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/trick-or-treat-bag-590kb101310-300×199.jpg

Thanks.

Thread Starter fisnollo
(@anollo)

11 years, 7 months ago

But that url does not appear to be valid. It redirects back to your home page.

I’ve restored the missing image, but I have not set any featured image for that particular post, so I’m not sure why that one is coming up.

Did you intend to use one of the following urls as the featured image?

Any of the photos pulled from within that post would be appropriate for a thumbnail. Images pulled from the sidebar, as the ad image is, would not.

bsac
(@bsac)

11 years, 7 months ago

The default behavior for deciding what image to use is:

1) Look for featured image.
2) If featured image does not exist, look for image in the Open Graph tags
3) If Open Graph image does not exist, use the largest image within the body of the page

For the pages in question, we used 3), i.e. the ad images are the largest images within the body of the page.

For example, this image…:

http://www.stencilsearch.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/vl300x250.jpg

…is found on line 304 of the page source. The body tags start on line 93 and end on line 343.

Thank you for fixing the featured images. Your images should be updated within a few hours. Also, your feedback helped us find a potential issue. We will be looking into why your images did not update in our system once you selected a featured image on your side.

Thanks again.

bsac
(@bsac)

11 years, 7 months ago

Your images have been updated:

http://www.stencilsearch.com/ideas/fabric/stenciled-halloween-pillows/

Thanks again!

Thread Starter fisnollo
(@anollo)

11 years, 7 months ago

Thanks!

For posts that I haven’t yet assigned a featured image to, will the thumbnail update automatically once I do assign one? If so, how much time should I allow for that to happen?

bsac
(@bsac)

11 years, 7 months ago

The thumbnail is supposed to update automatically once you assign an image AND that page has been requested by a user (i.e. executes our javascript). However, that may not be happening at this point. There is a request on our side to look into the issue. I don’t expect this to be finished in the next 1-2 days.

Thread Starter fisnollo
(@anollo)

11 years, 7 months ago

Thanks. As long as I know what to expect, I can work around it for now.

bsac
(@bsac)

11 years, 7 months ago

There was a bug and the problem has been resolved.

Thanks again for taking the time to report this problem!

Thread Starter fisnollo
(@anollo)

11 years, 7 months ago

It’s working perfectly now, and I must say I’m very impressed with Contextly so far.

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