Very weird – thumbnails have gone back to originals after editing?

  • Wow this is so weird..

    2 Nights ago, I spent several hours re-editing all my thumbnails, and they worked fine.. no problem.. the new thumbnails looked great, especially for book titles which were completely cut-off before, which was one of my pet peeves.

    But so weird.. tonight, I’m back on my site, and all the thumbnails that I had edited are gone..

    I also had 2 missing (broken) images in the newer post (that had 2 of the new thumbnails), and site-wide, all the thumbnails are now the older ones.. the ones where all the book titles are cutoff.

    I’m so confused.. :/

    I do use W3 Total Cache, but I disabled that and it didn’t make a difference (still disabled). And it’s doing it on 2 different computers.

    I use 4 ways to display my images (posts):

    1.) Shortcodes Ultimate (free plugin)
    a.) displays featured posts in the single post sidebar with a small thumbnail
    // using older images now but was using edited images the other night
    b.) displays carousel featured posts on some pages with larger thumbnail
    // strangely THIS one is actually displaying a couple of the edited images still but not all of them, it’s still displaying the older images as well..
    c.) displays thumbnail on sidebar on some of my pages
    // this one is also randomly showing new & old thumbnails

    2.) WP Ajax Query Shortcode (premium plugin)
    displays recent posts from different categories on different pages
    // using older images now but was using edited images the other night

    3.) Related Posts by Zemanta
    displays related posts at the bottom of every blog post
    // using older images now but was using edited images the other night

    &
    4.) Standard WordPress / Theme
    // using older images now but was using edited images the other night

    So weird.. how it was working perfect the other night…

    How can it “unedit” itself? so weird

    I just don’t understand how this could happen..
    … have you ever heard of that happening before?

    It’s just a bugger about the time lost (and sleep lost lol) cos I stayed up until 5am on a work night cos I was addicted & determined to change all my images.. I was so happy when it was all done. Crap that I have to do it all over again ?? But hope to find the cause so that this will be the last time..

    If this isn’t something the plugin normally does on occasion?
    Then the only ideas I have are that maybe my host restored a backup without my knowledge (unlikely but it’s happened in the past) or.. maybe my other plugins have reverted to grabbing the older images? But then why would shortcodesultimate work for some thumbnails but not for others.. it’s very bizarre (to me)…

    A page that shows the most amount of thumbnails on my site (and where you can see the most amount of difference in the book titles being cut-off is):

    https://pennybutler.com/mindset-blog/

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/post-thumbnail-editor/

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  • Plugin Author sewpafly

    (@sewpafly)

    I’ve never had a similar report.

    This appears to be the case of a plugin automatically regenerating all your thumbnails, for instance: ajax thumbnails rebuild. There are other plugins that have similar functionality, but I’m not familial with all of them. Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if a theme included this functionality as well — such that if you changed a theme option of a post thumbnail size, it would automatically regenerate all post-thumbnails…

    So if it wasn’t a plugin or a theme, it could have been a caching plugin or caching system, but if you enable the cache buster option for PTE (https://sewpafly.github.io/post-thumbnail-editor/editor/#toc_7), it would rule out this case.

    And if it wasn’t a plugin, theme, or cache system I don’t know what it could be. PTE is actually pretty simplistic, with the cache buster option off it tries to rewrite the files that already exist on the server, and then updates the database. With the cachebuster option, it writes a new file and then updates the database. I suggest enabling the cache-buster option and then making the changes to a post thumbnail to see if they “stick”. If they don’t stick, see if you can find where the files are saved on disk and see if you can locate them (they should be in a format similar to wp-content/uploads/<date-path>/thumbnail-name-<width>x<height>-<time>.jpg. Once you find them, looking at the modified date times on the files might give you some hints about what is going on…

    Let me know if anything here doesn’t make sense or if I can help you further.

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