Set Featured Image Broken in 3.4.2

With SCRIPT_DEBUG enabled…

POST https://184.168.20.28/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php jquery.js:4
f.support.ajax.f.ajaxTransport.send jquery.js:4
f.extend.ajax jquery.js:4
f.each.f.(anonymous function) jquery.js:4
WPSetAsThumbnail set-post-thumbnail.dev.js:5
onclick media-upload.php:153

function WPSetAsThumbnail(id, nonce){
var $link = jQuery(‘a#wp-post-thumbnail-‘ + id);

$link.text( setPostThumbnailL10n.saving );
jQuery.post(ajaxurl, {
action:”set-post-thumbnail”, post_id: post_id, thumbnail_id: id, _ajax_nonce: nonce, cookie: encodeURIComponent(document.cookie)
}, function(str){
var win = window.dialogArguments || opener || parent || top;
$link.text( setPostThumbnailL10n.setThumbnail );
if ( str == ‘0’ ) {
alert( setPostThumbnailL10n.error );
} else {
jQuery(‘a.wp-post-thumbnail’).show();
$link.text( setPostThumbnailL10n.done );
$link.fadeOut( 2000 );
win.WPSetThumbnailID(id);
win.WPSetThumbnailHTML(str);
}
}
);
}

From what I can tell thus far, it never makes a call to wp_ajax_set_post_thumbnail in wp-admin/admin-ajax.php. I’ve never worked with the wordpress code before, but based on what I can tell in admin-ajax.php and ajax-actions.php that appears to be the function call we enter when we get a POST to admin-ajax.php with action set-post-thumbnail.

Ok, next step I’ve decided the packet isn’t even getting to the server. tcpdump never shows the incoming packet. The admin-ajax.php accesses seen in the apache access log around the same time were generated by auto save, not set-post-thumbnail action.

It sounds like GoDaddy may indeed be dropping these particular packets.

Hi Superman859,
Thanks for starting another thread about this – I’m a newbie with this issue too.
However I have a different hosting company (HostGator).
I’m not as technical so can’t really give you much more than the info below:
site: https://www.calligrageek.com
page with issue : https://calligrageek.com/panic-catching-the-big-fish/
I hope someone can help us with this soon.

Testing it on a server that doesn’t work, against one where it does, it might be that the outgoing request to set the thumbnail is empty. Firebug should show something like this in the “Post” tab:

_ajax_nonce	0c3d41d6bf
action	set-post-thumbnail
cookie	(cookie stuff here)
post_id	4098
thumbnail_id	4099

But in the non-working one the request has no details at all, it just goes red and shows “aborted.” In fact there are no post parameters at all. If you right-click on the “Aborted” request, it’s not even an option, unlike the autosave ones.

When I look closely in the script debugger, it shows (shortened) something that an alert is supposed to be thrown if e==”0″, “Object SetThumbnail error=’Could not set that as t…a different attachment.'” but it isn’t. Doesn’t look like ‘e’ gets defined at all, but I’m not sure.

By the way, the non-working version is a multisite installation.

Thanks for the response tommcgee, could you please explain in layman terms if I need to contact the hosting company about this? Sorry I’m still new & not technical…

Thank you

I’m going to dig into this a little more tomorrow, but I doubt it’s a hosting issue. We’re self-hosted and as far as I know nothing changed in our security.

Thanks again tommcgee, much appreciated!

Hi Tommcgee / Superman859, Just a little update for you, My latest post worked fine with the featured image. Not sure if something was changed since last week but the original post I had an issue with still has it.

Was this issue ever resolved?

I think so. I was running the “Drag & Drop Featured Image” ever since 3.4.2, but I just disabled it on my 3.5.2 installation and featured images seem to work with my setup.