Not generating images with FeedWordPress (MPT Pro)

  • Hello, thank you for your work on this plugin!

    I upgraded to Pro for the compatibility with FeedWordpress. However, the plugin is not searching for and saving featured images for new FeedWordpress posts. I basically have to go in and manually fetch the images of new posts, which means it is not doing its job correctly.

    I tried various ways, such as with FWP+: SIC’Em (Syndicated Image Capture) and Featured Image from URL (FIFU). “Save Post” Hook is on, based on title, first result, overwrite existing image, source Google Image, no interval, compatibility with FeedWordpress is on (also tried with compatibility with FIFU on and off), no cron, no proxy.

    I just need to it to find the appropriate image from Google as FeedWordpress publishes the new syndicated feed’s post.

    Also, a few requests:

    • On the admin post list page: Instead of having to check the box and select the drop down to generate featured images, can you please add a quick link for this option to each post? Like where the “quick edit” links are?
    • Can you please add an Edit Post options box to change specific options from the defaults? Specifically, when overwrite existing images is set to default in the MPT settings, there should be an option to turn that off per post. It should be smart enough to know that I have uploaded an image for that post and not overwrite it, but with the save post hook on, it just overwrites the individually uploaded image and overwrites it again with a Google sourced image. That is frustrating.
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  • Plugin Author Alexandre Gaboriau

    (@mcurly)

    Hi codings,

    This is strange. I tried with your settings and several settings on FeedWordPres and I don’t see any problem.

    To help you, you can:

    • Enable logs in “Logs” > “Enable Logs”
    • Try to generate posts with FeedWordPres
    • If you see it didn’t work. You will get some logs. Download the file, and please send a mail to contact [@] magic-post-thumbnail.com

    About your requests, I’ll consider them for next updates.

    Regards.

    Thread Starter codings

    (@codings)

    Thank you for the reply. I have enabled logs now and will monitor it and report back. I appreciate your time.

    Thread Starter codings

    (@codings)

    Hi, logs are enables in the admin and FeedWordpress has done its thing several time (automatically pulling new posts from feeds). Pictures are still not being pulled in (except for the ones FeedWordpress is absorbing via the SIC’em add-on.

    Log history = No log yet

    To get the relevant images, I need to go to the post list and check the boxes of the posts without featured images, then apply generate featured images in the bulk actions drop-down. Then it redirects to the MPT admin bulk generation page, showing that it is doing its job.

    After the job is successful, I go to check the logs and all logs are normal and related to the actions that were just performed.

    When you tried to get the same results, did you let FWP run on its own cron time? Or did you force it to get the feed updates?

    Plugin Author Alexandre Gaboriau

    (@mcurly)

    Hi codings,

    “When you tried to get the same results, did you let FWP run on its own cron time? Or did you force it to get the feed updates?”

    Ok, I did several different tests and you are right. It worked when l started it or when I was logged in, when I was not anymore logged on the website, posts didn’t have images anymore.

    So I confirm that there is a problem. I think it’s related to plugin security & permissions. I will check soon to fix it for the next update.

    Regards

    Thread Starter codings

    (@codings)

    You are amazing, thank you! Can’t wait for the update!

    Plugin Author Alexandre Gaboriau

    (@mcurly)

    Hi codings,

    The new version 4.1.9.1 should fix the problem now.

    Regards

    Thread Starter codings

    (@codings)

    Will check it out and let you know. Thank you for your hard work!

    Thread Starter codings

    (@codings)

    Seems like more images than before are being fetched but not all. Just as I was looking into it, got a notice that the plugin contains malware:

    Malware Type: Compromised

    wp-content/plugins/magic-post-thumbnail-premium/admin/partials/freemius/includes/class-fs-panel.php

    Plugin Author Alexandre Gaboriau

    (@mcurly)

    Seems like more images than before are being fetched but not all.

    Ok. Strange that not all posts are fetched. If you manually do a generation for posts without images, will images be generated?

    Just as I was looking into it, got a notice that the plugin contains malware:

Malware Type: Compromised

wp-content/plugins/magic-post-thumbnail-premium/admin/partials/freemius/includes/class-fs-panel.php

    About your notice, and this file “class-fs-panel.php”:

    Version 4.1.8 used the php function chr(), which is sometimes used by malware.

    I was aware of this problem, so I removed this file and function with the latest update (v 4.1.9.1), but this file didn’t contain any malicious program, it was a security check about the the pro version.

    It’s strange that this file is still there after your update, but if the security check offers you to delete the file, you can do that, it’s not used by the plugin anymore.

    Thread Starter codings

    (@codings)

    Ok. Strange that not all posts are fetched. If you manually do a generation for posts without images, will images be generated?

    Yes, manual fetching works flawlessly. So what I need to do several times per day is go to the admin posts list, check the box of the ones that do not have a featured image (added a function to show featured images in a column, but FIFU plugin also has this ability), then go to the drop down and select Generate Featured Images and apply. It then goes to the MPT Bulk Generation screen and fetches the thumbs from Google.

    It’s strange that this file is still there after your update, but if the security check offers you to delete the file, you can do that, it’s not used by the plugin anymore.

    Server security auto deleted the file. Figured it was something else you were using but not your code. Also, everything still ran fine without it. Maybe it’s still there because of running the premium version? Or are the file sets exactly the same?

    Plugin Author Alexandre Gaboriau

    (@mcurly)

    Ok. Another alternative to that could be crons.

    You could for example enable the option and use these settings :

    Maybe it’s still there because of running the premium version? Or are the file sets exactly the same?

    Yes this is because you have the premium version. It was only included in this version.

    Thread Starter codings

    (@codings)

    I set up the cron as you recommended. Will report back. Thank you.

    Thread Starter codings

    (@codings)

    Cron is not fetching the images.

    Thread Starter codings

    (@codings)

    Hi, in the plugin WP Crontrol, fs_data_sync_magic-post-thumbnail is listed in the events, but for Action it says: None. Is this normal?

    Plugin Author Alexandre Gaboriau

    (@mcurly)

    Hi codings, about fs_data_sync_magic-post-thumbnail it is related to freemius but yes I guess it is normal. This is the same for me.

    About the cron, I don’t know, I have no other solutions unfortunately :-/

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