amandelman

Hey, Brad.

I’m hesitant to try and *reproduce* the problem since I’m almost done cleaning up all the images for which WP didn’t produce thumbs.

But this is basically how things were:

1. I had FooBox installed before FooGallery.
2. I later installed FooGallery.
3. At some point I updated to WP 4.0
4. At some point around that update I also noticed that FooGallery had FooBox listed as an extension. I clicked “activate,” even though I already had FooBox activated from a prior install. (Perhaps that’s what caused the problem?).
5. Around two weeks later we noticed we couldn’t create galleries using images uploaded since the first week of September, per this thread.
6. Today, I deactivated FooBox. As soon as I did so, thumbs started working again.
7. I reactivated FooBox as an extension. Thumbs continued to work.

Does that help enough? Like I said, I’m hesitant to try and reproduce the problem, but if you really need me to, I’ll give it a shot.

I figured it out! I had both the FooBox extension AND FooBox stand-alone plugin activated. As soon as I deactivated both, thumbs started working again. Since I still wanted the lightbox feature, I reactivated *only* the extension and everything seems to work now.

Cheers!

Thanks. I’ll test right now—can you clarify, though: where will I see if thumbs are generated? Are thumbs just the automatically resized images (small, medium, large) that WordPress allows you to insert into a post?

Update: I’ve copied our site over to an independent hosting service (HostGator). Our IT guy assured me any legacy permissions wouldn’t be set on the new site and yet the FooGallery problem persists. Could that mean there’s a problem with WP4?

I just remembered that we actually upgraded to WP4 immediately after the original server migration, so perhaps that’s the actual source of the problem…

Thanks!

Thanks for figuring it out! We’re moving everything from a .edu server (which has been causing several problems) to a private hosting company, so hopefully that will solve the issue.

BUT, this is what the IT manager for our .edu server had to say:

“As for the thumbs issue I don’t see why it isn’t working. The permissions are set properly per WordPress’ instructions. Since the WP upgrade coincided with the server moved I looked around and found a few scattered instances of WP 4 not generating thumbs properly.”

Any reason to think this is a WP4 issue that we’ll see persist even after we migrate?

Thanks, bravdin!

I just sent credentials through. Let me know if you need anything else.

I’m having this same problem, but only when the alt text and the caption are different. Because our captions can be quite long, we tend to make the alt text much shorter.

Running WordPress 4.0 and FooBox 1.0.3.

Hey, bradvin.

Just checking in to see if anything has come up here. We’re hoping to launch our site next week and one of our first posts was going to make use of your plugin.

Thanks for your help!

Adam

We’re on version WPv4.0, FooGallery v.1.1.8.2, and have FooBox Free installed (which works just fine with all our images).

Note that we’re not having any problems with thumbnails—we can’t even get to that point because the plugin doesn’t allow us to add any images we’ve uploaded recently.

Thanks!

Hi. I’m also having this problem. I just installed the plugin and while it works great otherwise, none of my images (all captioned) show up in excerpts. I’m using a Twenty-Eleven Child Theme.

See: https://www.adammandelman.net/porous-places/

Thanks!

Adam

This was also exactly what I was looking for, but, now the little comment callout icon has been squished into a weird little grey box on my posts page. I imagine this is because the new width is messing with the sidebar template?

I’m completely new at this, so forgive me for not knowing what I’m doing.