Thumbnail generation alert

No answer to this, I’ll try once more as I’m now encountering the same problem on another new site on the same WP Engine server….

I’m getting this error: “Thumbnail Generation Alert!
There is a problem generating thumbnails for your gallery. Please check that your hosting provider has the GD Image Library extension installed and enabled.
If thumbnails cannot be generated, then full-sized, uncropped images will be used instead. This will result in slow page load times, and thumbnails that do not look correct.”

However, this is on WP Engine, where I have multiple other sites using FooGallery + Albums with the same set of plugins and the same custom base theme with no errors. WP Engine support says GD Image Library is never installed on their servers – so why are the other sites working fine, no FooGallery issues? And how do I fix this one?

I had a look at your front-end and the images are being resized correctly, which means the permissions is correct and you should have no issues.

So the issue is only in the admin when the thumb resize test is performed.
This test is done on an image in the plugin folder and NOT the usual uploads folder where media is uploaded to. So the permissions to the test image location in the foogallery plugin folder is not writeable.

I am going to build in a better way to handle this scenario in an upcoming version.

For now you can ignore this error message

Okay, thanks. I’ll ignore it.

Well – ignoring it doesn’t help. The images in the gallery are shown at all different sizes even after clearing the thumbnail cache.

Where is the test image? Can I make that one location writeable, or is this a bigger issue and I’ll need to try a different plugin?

@redkite – you can try a different plugin if you wish – FooGallery is a free plugin, so please do not feel obliged to use it if it is not working for your particular setup.

What you are experiencing is not the norm. The test image is located at wp-content/foogallery/assets/logo.png

Unite Gallery seems to be a good and very similar replacement.

It doesn’t make sense to me that 8-10 other client sites on WP Engine using the same theme and plugins are running FooGallery without any problems, yet 2 of my other WP Engine client sites with the same theme and plugins are unable to run it because of this issue.

I’ve been using FooGallery for several years, I’ll check back in the future to see if anything has changed.

Ye it does not make sense, and we cannot figure out why on some hosts this permissions error shows up and on others it does not (even with the identical plugins and theme etc).

As I said above, I have an idea to change the way it does the testing, and I will work on that for a future version.

I had a look at your site again : https://hixoninteriors.com/interiors/gallery/library-park/ and it still seems to be showing correctly. Which page is not showing as expected with the different sizes?

It’s not that site – this is a new site under development. I can’t provide access to it, but all the thumbnails were all different sizes.

We are also getting a “Thumbnail Generation Alert.” All the thumbnails are different sizes and ignore the gallery settings for image size.

We corrected the display by using the “Force Original Thumbs” setting. However, the underlying problem that prevents FooGallery from generating its own thumbnails remains.

Our host (SiteGround) informs us that the GD Image Library extension is installed and enabled by default.

We solved the mystery. On our site, calls to https:// were not properly directing to https://. Fixing that issue caused the Thumbnail Alert issue, because our WP site URL was still set to https:// (left over from our development site. We only recently launched the site.) Once we changed the WP site URL to https://, the FooGallery thumbnail generation issue resolved.