Title: thumbnail URL encoding problem
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# thumbnail URL encoding problem

 *  [Nic Windley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nisiwi/)
 * (@nisiwi)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-url-encoding-problem/)
 * When uploading images I’m not seeing a thumbnail, just a placeholder with custom
   upload dir plugin activated.
 * My folder structure is defined as;
 * /%category%/%permalink%
 * The thubmnail URL in media manager is generated as;
    [http://www.domain.ext/wp-content/uploads/?post_type=product&p=194/the-product-150×150.png](http://www.domain.ext/wp-content/uploads/?post_type=product&p=194/the-product-150×150.png)
 * However, the only URL that seems to work is replacing the “?” with “%3f”
    [http://www.domain.ext/wp-content/uploads/%3fpost_type=product&p=194/the-product-150×150.png](http://www.domain.ext/wp-content/uploads/%3fpost_type=product&p=194/the-product-150×150.png)
 * Could this be a rewrite problem somewhere ?
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-upload-dir/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-upload-dir/)

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 * Last reply from: [Nic Windley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nisiwi/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-url-encoding-problem/)
 * Status: not resolved