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This entry was posted on 23 August 2008 at 14:06 and filed under Tutorial: TimThumb Thumbnail Generation with The Arthemias
23.08.08 at 14:06 in Wordpress and Themes # 81 CommentsThis post has been moved to http://colorlabsproject.com/knowledgebase-tutorials/tutorial-timthumb-thumbnail-generation-with-arthemia-theme/. This post is now closed.
If you still have problems getting the thumbnail automatic generation working, please read this tutorial. I spent a lot of my time creating this tutorial, including screen shots for some significant steps, and adding narrative text to each image. Please consider reading the whole instruction again, again, and again because I found out that there is 90% possibility that you missed one spot and there are many occurrences one say that he/she did not missed anything but ended up saying “Ah, yeah, I forgot that one.” 
The CHMOD 777
Upload and activate the Arthemia theme. Then, the first step is to make the scripts and cache folder writable. You can either try ‘777′ writable or ‘755′ writable. Some web hosting company prevent you making any folder ‘777′ writable due to some security reasons. But, I suggest you to try with ‘777′ writable first. I use FileZilla to do the FTP work because it is free and has a lot of features. To make the folders writable, simply right click the folder name and select ‘File Attributes’ and a dialog box will show up.
You can tick all the attributes there, consider it a finger exercise, or directly type 777 as the folder attribute. Do this to both scripts and cache folder.
You’re done with FTP work and may continue to the image uploading procedure.
Uploading an image
To upload image, you can use the built-in Add Image WP feature. In the post editing page, notice the Add media icons just below your post title and permalink. Click “Add Image” and an image uploading page will show up.
Upload any image that you like, preferably the properly sized one (for example: 300×300 pixel or bigger for Arthemia theme).
After the image is uploaded, you can see the image location from the ‘Link URL’ field. In this tutorial, it is: http://michaelhutagalung.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/1.jpg. Values may vary depending on your blog settings. One may have the time-structured folder while others may not. Copy that value but remember to get rid of your blog home page location. In my case, the final value will be wp-content/uploads/2008/08/1.jpg.
Then, close the image uploading page and you do not need to clik ‘Insert to Post’ button if you do not want to. When you’re back in the post editing page, scroll down until you find “Custom Fields”. Make a new Custom Field with “Image” as the key and the image location as the “Value”.
You’re done. Please feel free to comment or ask for support in the forum but only if you’re 100% sure that you did not miss anything.
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similar issues with the premium version thumbnails. Will not work. I went over everything several times, no joy. Great theme… instructions were pretty vague. No info on which plugins to use or get. All info should be in a readme IN the file folder or in the user back end. For a premium theme, it’s great, but you need some work on support looks like.
Hi, have your browsed the ZIP file you get when you purchased? There is a comprehensive “readme.pdf” in the ZIP file. It is exactly located in the file folder, just like you said. And you need no plugin to make it work and this tutorial is just an additional help. The readme file explains all.
If you are a premium user, please post your issue in the forum and we’ll get down to help you. And don’t forget to ask for an access to the new site as well.
Hi Michael,
Thanks for sharing arthemia theme.
I already try and try your suggestion in this post.
But apparently the image still not appears in mainpage. It only appears in permalink page.
Please visit my blog
Thanks and GBU,
-bermandt
I purchased the Arthemia Premium theme. I LOVE it! It is the first theme I have purchased.
I need a little help with what seems to be a common issue. My thumbnails are not showing up. My headline is not showing, my featured is not showing and the sidebar categories are not showing (there are a series called “Twitter Updates” that do not have images…I am not talking about these).
I have it set on first image. When I view the ftp all the images are in there. Did I miss something? I have viewed all the pics, vids and read the .pdf.
Thank you for your help.
blessings,
Wendy
Twitter: WendyMerritt
Hello all, I am running into problems getting the Headline working with the timthum resizer. I have looked all through thes forums, triple checked the install guide and everything is in order. I have noticed that some of you have problems with Hostgator switching over to APache 2.0.
Could you PLEASE help me with what you said to hostgator to get the problem fixed. DO I simply asked to be “whitelisted” or what specifically should I ask them for?
Thanks so much. Love the theme and can’t wait to get the tiny few bugs hammered out!
Levi
website: todlevibrown.com
What was your resolution to the issue with hostgator? I am having the same probblem.
Any help regreatly appreciated.
Thank you for the nice tutorial. I am looking forward to installing this theme to showcase Ann Arbor Mi area homes and communities. I’ll put the thumb nail generator and Arthemia to work. Thanks.
Thank you for the turtorial, but after some hours, I don’t have fix my problem:
http://www.radiopersonal.de/saarpresseportal
I have the right custom field “Image”, and the correct Path: “wp-content/uploads/xxxxx.jpg” and 777 or 775 chmod. But the images are not displayed. Why?
Hi Funkytown,
I’ve checked your website. Here’s what I found:
This is one of the image you want to generate a thumb from:
http://www.radiopersonal.de/saarpresseportal/wp-content/uploads/zeltpalast.jpg
It’s not a valid JPG file. Go click the link above and you will see no image.
And for another post that you have, this is the original image:
http://www.radiopersonal.de/saarpresseporta/wp-content/upload/apres%20ski.jpg
The image does not exist either. Click the link above and you won’t find the image.
Anyway, you are using the premium version. You could select the “First-Image” method so you don’t have to deal with any custom fields.
Ok, now i have checked, so
If i download the picture with the galery, then the image will not show in the headline or feature section.
if i use the ftp-program and copy the jpg in the upload directory and fill it in then (url in galery), THEN can i see the image!
Questions:
1. Why do you think are they problems with the uploading with wordpress?
2. If its possible (with my premium version), to show images in the headline and featured section WITHOUT fill in the article? (of coure if I have “first image” option)
3. I would like the most of pictures not downloading. How can I insert a picture for headlines and features ONLY with the Url from an another server in the www?
Thanks
Some of the thumbs are showing, some are not, and none of the vid clips in the latest clips are displaying.
Site is http://www.pleasedontstare.com/PDS/
Any help would be appreciated. It a real cool theme otherwise.
The script can’t generate images from external sources. That’s why some of your thumbs are not there.
And about videos, you need to create a custom Field named “Video” and add the YouTube URL there.
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Hi! Great theme!
Is it possible to have the “Image” custom field draw from a picture that is already uploaded on the web, instead of having to upload it into the wp/uploads folder?
Thanks!
Yes Hostgator and their Apache 2.0 upgrade killed some of my websites too, but u just gotta tell them about your issuse and they will fix it.. it is a pain but…
security is important so.. thats good!
I just uploaded the premium arethia, and uploaded the template xml doc. None of the images come through for the thumbnails. Even when I try uploading my own, They don’t load correctly. If I choose first image, the pictures image frames are there, they just dont load up. In custom image, they picture frame doesnt even show. I 777 both cache and scripts. Please help, thanks
http://www.planningfinancials.com
its your server telling there is 500 Internal Server Error. Delete any .htaccess file, change back all permissions to 755. The server doesn’t allow you to have 777.
@Greg:
Exactly, First-Image auto assignment is available in the premium version. You can read the side-by-side comparison here:
http://michaelhutagalung.com/2008/09/arthemia-free-versus-premium
Thumbnails are working perfectly, but I have a question that’s perhaps an advanced feature.
Is there a way to have the thumbnail pic automatically generated without having to enter the custom field info? In other words, can the custom field tag be created automatically based on the first picture in the posting or something?
The reason I ask is I use the Apple iPhone WordPress app almost daily to take pictures and upload them to my website, but then I later have to log into the website when I get back to a computer and add the thumbnail manually. But it would be great to just take a picture, create a post from my phone, and the website automatically had a thumbnail.
I’m not holding my breath for Wordpress to update their iPhone app, so I thought I’d ask if this was a possibility. If the premium app already does this, it would be worth the $70 right there.
Great theme, either way, though!
Thank you very much for this tutorial! It helped a lot.
The mistake i did was to write wordress/ in the custom field url.
But it works fine now, thanks!
I have read the tutorial over and over again and I was sure I did not miss any step but still I could not get the thumbnail showed. I get frustrated and did not know what to do since all the steps in the tutorial have been done appropriately.
Thanks to Gary now I know that the problem was my hosting company hostgator
Re: Thumbnails not working.
During the last week of October, Hostgator started upgrading their servers to Apache 2.0. There’s a security function in Apache 2.0 that prevents the thumbnails from working. The solution Hostgator proposed was changing the rewrite rules and removing this from the index.php and archive.php:
Or, Hostgator can add each of your domains to a “whitelist” that will allow the thumbnails to show.
This seems to affect both Arthemia and Arthemia Premium.
I’m not happy with either solution proposed by Hostgator. The scripts worked before their upgrade, they shouldn’t expect users to go back and change the code in previously functional installations because Hostgator can’t get the security settings right in Apache 2.0
Are there any updates on the HostGator Apache 2.0 problems? I’ve been pulling my hair out all morning trying to figure out what was wrong until now. I knew I had been through every step in the tutorial, but still no thumbnails.
Here I suggest you something, in the scripts folder, you will find a file called “error_log”. Delete the file (so we will start from fresh log), refresh your blog, and you will find a new “error_log” there. Open that file with Notepad and paste the content here. The last line of the file will help us to narrow down the problem.
I just realized why I could not get it working, same issue, I’m on Hostagator. Before I ask hostagator to put me this domain on the so called “white list” as Gary mentioned here, perhaps there are changes we can do in the code?
And Michael, there’s no “error_log” file, at least in my case.
@Serge: well, that’s because you haven’t set the Custom Field correctly. I’ve checked your website and here is what I found:
http://www.1steuropetravelguide.com/wp-content/themes/arthemia/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.1steuropetravelguide.com/&w=300&h=275&zc=1&q=100
while the correct address should be:
http://www.1steuropetravelguide.com/wp-content/themes/arthemia/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.1steuropetravelguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/something.jpg&w=300&h=275&zc=1&q=100
Please create the needed custom field.
I got the Arthemia Premium although everything works perfect, what I don’t understand is the “Latest Video Post” I don’t get the instructions, can someone please explain me what to do? I’m that close changing the theme just because I can’t figure that. I’m not experienced with the custom fields. I did put “Video” keyword in the key, however the video still appear as a link in the latest posts, not in the Latest Video Posts, despite the fact I have a category called Videos and I do have it selected in the Theme’s options.
Things been working great until october 27; site stopped showing thumbnails. Checked the cache folder permissions, got it as 777. This is the blog url if you would take a look at http://www.dailyglobal.com/
Please help.
you know what, u r supercoool !!!
Thanks for such a nice tutorial, my site looks awesome in your theme !!!!!!
Please help me out I tried with all the guidelines mentioned above, still not able to get the thumbnails please help me out