[Plugin: Advanced Most Recent Posts Mod] Thumbnails do not show up sometimes.

Hey Violent23,

I have just checked and you are using different urls for these images..?
Large img assumed to be the thumbnail of the post;
https://mobibookz.co.cc/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tumblr_leqsq0ZdnJ1qegj70
Then the requested image for AMRP is;
https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=theh02b-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B002SKZBTA

I use AMRP myself and have it set to use the first img of the post and to resize to 50px x 50px & the urls whether they are in AMRP or in the content area are all exactly the same, this makes it much easier to track down any errors.

One other point that may help is that I also pull in content from Amazon & can sometimes have problems with trying to save the img to my server so I wondered if Amazon had certain images that were not allowed to be saved off site..?

My own solution to this has been to stop trying to save copies of all my images to my server & simply hotlink to Amazon’s images! This may not be the accepted method of doing things, but it aided the speed of my site & also stops the occasional errors that you speak of, which I don’t believe are related to AMRP.

Hope that helps

Why is AMRP requesting https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=theh02b-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B002SKZBTA ? That is not the first image of the post. I use get first image of post and resize to 60×90. There is no Amazon image in my post at all. Why is AMRP trying to link to Amazon?

I had a link to amazon for my associates. I got rid of it. I have an image on the post still, and AMRP does not want to retrieve it, why?

Okay, so it seams that AMRP is not seeing my img in my post. This happens 1 out of 15 times. How is it that it does not see the img inserted in my posts? When AMRP was grabbing the Amazon img, it was part of my link to the Amazon Associates. I have since deleted the Amazon part of the link with an img width 1, height 1, but AMRP still does not want to find the only img in the post, the first one. Which I have it set to grab in the first place. What is making my first img not seen by AMRP.

The code that grabs the first image hasn’t been altered in the ‘mod’ version – it’s using regex pattern matching to locate the first image

"/<img[^']*?src=\"([^']*?)\"[^']*?>/"

I’m not very good with regex, so if someone has a better version, I’ll update the plugin with it… ??

Ok a suggestion,

try a plugin for WP called “Get The Image”, this is a superb plugin with many different options that are very easy to set up. Basically there is an option available to scan any article for an image, the 1st image found is set as thumbnail or if you prefer you can also set a default image, so if ever an image is not found it will at least display some image on the screen.

Once an image is found with this plugin and assigned as thumbnail, you should have no problem with AMRP picking these thumbnails & all you need do to activate it is to place a short code within the loop.

As I said earlier, I pull in stuff from Amazon & trying to get images to show on the index page was a real nightmare, but after installing “Get The Image” everything is sweet. Oh and it’s compatable with WP versions 2.9 to 3.4.

I downloaded get the image, but there are no setting for it. What am I missing? As for “placing a short code in the loop”, I am sorry but I have no idea what that means.

Here is the code for the img in a post that is not showing the picture in AMRP.

<img class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-1873″ title=”I’d Know You Anywhere free ebook” src=”https://mobibookz.co.cc/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/cover163.jpg&#8221; alt=”” width=”181″ height=”280″ />

Why does AMRP not see the img in that code? This is the only img in the post, and it is the first thing in the post.

I can get it to show pictures for every post if I select :Get first attatched image of post” instead of “Get first image of post” but it does not resize the picture to fit like it does for “Get first image of post’.
How d I make “Get first attatched image of post” resize to fit 60×90 like “Get first image of post does”?