Processing thumbnail and other images not working

Have you tried:

– deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

– switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-related problems?

– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin? Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

– re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a fresh download of WordPress?

Hi Esmi

Thanks for your response. I′ve just finished doing a fresh install (except for my images and the database) and I also deleted completely the two plugins and the theme I was using just to make sure but still when I try and upload images they just seem to disappear into thin air.

Basically if I click on the add images icon on a new post, and use the flash uploader (browser uploader just never seems to work for me – on a crappy connection mainly), it will say it′s uploading and crunching the image, get to a 100% and then a list with nothing in it appears.

To be honest I′m beginning to think it may be a problem with my web host (cirtex hosting), and not with WordPress at all.

But I′m open to suggestions…

Thanks ??

David

Hi David,

Do you resize and compress your images before uploading?
Even “travellers size” digital camera’s have 10 megapixels now and create images of 3mB and more.
Resizing and compressing them to 100kB saves you not only server space but also loads them faster for yor visitors. I use Irfanview for that.

Next, it could be a server issue. Try adding this to your wp-config.php on a new line right after db_collate:
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');

Hi henkholland

I don′t resize the images as the way I have been using WordPress is as a tool to backup our photographs at their full resolution and, as an extra benefit, having WordPress resize these images for family and friends to view on our blog – my girlfriend and I are on a round the world trip at the moment!

But, you have a very good point about the file size, so I tried a few tests this evening with some smaller images (the program you recommended is brilliant) but still no joy even with all plugins and themes turned off.

I also tried upping the memory for WordPress, but again, still no joy.

Below is some code from cPanels error log showing what WordPress is actually doing. To me it just looks like it′s stuck in a loop. This code I′ve taken from when I′ve clicked on the add an image button until, well, until I got bored of waiting!

[Wed Feb 10 12:15:21 2010] [error] [client 118.173.53.24] [Wed Feb 10 12:15:21 2010] [info] Executing "/home/davitco/davidandsian/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" as UID 663, GID 663, referer: https://davidandsian.co.uk/wp-admin/post-new.php
[Wed Feb 10 12:14:33 2010] [error] [client 118.173.53.24] [Wed Feb 10 12:14:33 2010] [info] Executing "/home/davitco/davidandsian/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" as UID 663, GID 663, referer: https://davidandsian.co.uk/wp-admin/post-new.php
[Wed Feb 10 12:13:12 2010] [error] [client 118.173.53.24] [Wed Feb 10 12:13:12 2010] [info] Executing "/home/davitco/davidandsian/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" as UID 663, GID 663, referer: https://davidandsian.co.uk/wp-admin/post-new.php
[Wed Feb 10 12:12:53 2010] [error] [client 118.173.53.24] File does not exist: /home/davitco/davidandsian/500.shtml
[Wed Feb 10 12:12:12 2010] [error] [client 118.173.53.24] [Wed Feb 10 12:12:12 2010] [info] Executing "/home/davitco/davidandsian/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" as UID 663, GID 663, referer: https://davidandsian.co.uk/wp-admin/post-new.php
[Wed Feb 10 12:11:12 2010] [error] [client 118.173.53.24] [Wed Feb 10 12:11:12 2010] [info] Executing "/home/davitco/davidandsian/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" as UID 663, GID 663, referer: https://davidandsian.co.uk/wp-admin/post-new.php
[Wed Feb 10 12:10:21 2010] [error] [client 118.173.53.24] [Wed Feb 10 12:10:21 2010] [info] Executing "/home/davitco/davidandsian/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" as UID 663, GID 663, referer: https://davidandsian.co.uk/wp-admin/post-new.php
[Wed Feb 10 12:09:21 2010] [error] [client 118.173.53.24] [Wed Feb 10 12:09:21 2010] [info] Executing "/home/davitco/davidandsian/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" as UID 663, GID 663, referer: https://davidandsian.co.uk/wp-admin/post-new.php
[Wed Feb 10 12:09:17 2010] [error] [client 118.173.53.24] [Wed Feb 10 12:09:17 2010] [info] Executing "/home/davitco/davidandsian/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" as UID 663, GID 663, referer: https://davidandsian.co.uk/wp-admin/post-new.php
[Wed Feb 10 12:09:14 2010] [error] [client 118.173.53.24] [Wed Feb 10 12:09:14 2010] [info] Executing "/home/davitco/davidandsian/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" as UID 663, GID 663, referer: https://davidandsian.co.uk/wp-admin/post-new.php
[Wed Feb 10 12:09:13 2010] [error] [client 118.173.53.24] [Wed Feb 10 12:09:13 2010] [info] Executing "/home/davitco/davidandsian/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" as UID 663, GID 663, referer: https://davidandsian.co.uk/wp-admin/post-new.php
[Wed Feb 10 12:08:15 2010] [error] [client 118.173.53.24] [Wed Feb 10 12:08:15 2010] [info] Executing "/home/davitco/davidandsian/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" as UID 663, GID 663, referer: https://davidandsian.co.uk/wp-admin/post-new.php
[Wed Feb 10 12:07:21 2010] [error] [client 118.173.53.24] [Wed Feb 10 12:07:21 2010] [info] Executing "/home/davitco/davidandsian/wp-admin/media-upload.php" as UID 663, GID 663, referer: https://davidandsian.co.uk/wp-admin/post-new.php

I′ve also tried changing the Miscellaneous Settings uploads folder from what it had been set to, to the default and to a few other variations and it was actually creating new folders for the uploads. So it kind of knows that a file is coming, but just doesn′t seem to get that far. Does that make sense?

Regards

David

Hang on a second… got up this morning and thought I′d give it one more go and it seems to be working. I think the memory limit bit of code must of burst into life and done the trick.

Will check it a bit more thoroughly in a few days as I′m off to sleep on a beach for a few days now ??

Thanks for your help Esmi & henkholland, I really appreciate it.

David