Tim thumb error

  • Resolved ChrisCG

    (@chriscg)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    Hi, this seems like a perfect plugin for what I want – not a recipe site, but I have one page where I display customers’ sets of pictures, so a visual index would be great.

    http://ams22.stablehost.com/~baribaza/wpjgd/customers-stitching/

    However, like several others, I can’t get the thumbnail images to show up in my index page. I have tried installing Visual Recipe index plugin in a test install of WordPress on another server, with identical theme and Woocommerce installed, which works fine (I thought the theme or Woocommerce might interfere with it, so tried with a plain blog site and twenty-twelve theme, which worked, then switched back to the Woothemes theme and Woocommerce and it still worked – but the same setup on my ‘live’ site does not work).

    With the one I need to get working, I get a Tim thumb error: “Could not find the internal image you specified”.

    There is an includes/cache folder, and I’ve even tried changing permissions to 777 but no .txt files appear, whereas they do in the test site, which also displays the index thumbnails correctly.

    I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin. What else can I try, please?

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/visual-recipe-index/

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  • Plugin Author Kremental

    (@seestheday)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Can you confirm that the includes/cache directory is in the plugin directory?

    e.g. wp-content/plugins/visual-recipe-index/includes/cache

    Thread Starter ChrisCG

    (@chriscg)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Yes, it is, with permissions 0755.

    Note –
    Having Googled the problem, I saw that there was a problem in 2012 with Timthumb and sites under development using a preview URL that included a tilde character (which mine does). I tried the code fix they suggested, but it didn’t work. I then wondered what would happen if I had the site live, with a proper domain pointed at it so the URL wouldn’t have the tilde.

    I have built a testbed site on the same server, in a different folder, which is a different website for which I already have a domain name pointed at it (I’m not using the site at the moment, so it is sort of ‘spare’). This copy of WordPress with the Visual Recipe Index plugin does work OK – it displays the thumbnails as expected.

    Maybe this is the solution – to wait until the real site is live? Not everyone has a spare live site to test the plugin like I just did though! 🙂

    Is the tilde problem with Timthumb a known issue still?

    I also see that Timthumb was officially discontinued last October, due to its checkered history with security issues. Do you have any comment about the future use of Timthumb in your plugin/

    Thread Starter ChrisCG

    (@chriscg)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    I looks like a response isn’t forthcoming, so I’m posting to say, for anyone else reading this who has encountered the same problem, it seems that Timthumb has the problem, not the plugin itself, which works fine when the URL doesn’t have a Tilde “~” in it.

    However, the presence of the Timthumb script, now that it is being dropped as a security risk by Woo Themes and in no longer supported even by the owner of Timthumb, is a deal-breaker for me, so I have deactivated Visual Recipe Index plugin and now use Content Views instead, which does a good job, too.

    Plugin Author Kremental

    (@seestheday)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Apologies for the late reply. I have a full time job and this is a free side project.

    I’m spending all of my spare development time working on the pro version which isn’t dependent on TimThumb. I instead use the native wordpress image resizing functions which are much more secure.

    Once the pro version is released I plan on back-porting this functionality into the free version to avoid any security risks.

    I’m glad you were able to find what you wanted with content views. It is a fine plugin, but it appears to have different goals than what I want from visual recipe index.

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