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Update: If anyone sees this, and if you know of a better way to word the question so that I could find the answer provided to someone else’s question, please let me know. It seems like a very basic concern and I just don’t know how to implement it. It may be related to the term “tags” as well as “categories.” Thanks in advance for any response.

Well, maybe I can get Tim to answer this basic question:

I would like to use a WP theme for my main site. (I have a blog based on WP which is in a “blog” folder on my site.)

I currently have a page labeled, /index.htm . Can I install WP as my site format and retain the pages that are there during the time of switching their content into the WP network of pages?

If I install WP, will the “index” page function be taken over by WP?

I have many links both incoming and outgoing from my index page, and I’d like to be able to gradually shift from the current MS FrontPage version into the WP version.

Tim’s info led to his professional site, so he likely knows how to do that very smoothly.

My site is: https://www.naturalconnectionshealthcare.com

That’s great. Thank you for the quick replies.

I consider this question answered and we outta close the item to further responses. I’ll ask other questions in other postings.

Hooray for WordPress

Hello, I’ve got a similar concern, but it is almost the opposite one. Héctor has been very helpful for me in dealing with the recent problem with thumbnails, so I expect that he’d be able to answer both your question and mine in the same response.

I would like to be able to control the control of what posts get shown. Specifically,I would like all posts to be listed in order of popularity, no matter how old they are.

With the way my site is designed I use the posts as information files that I update after the date of posting. Some may be viewed only every few months, but visitors to my site know that the content is there when they see it listed on the side of the screen in the PopularPosts column, and they can read it anytime they want to.

If an unviewed post disappears from the list, then they would not know that it was written and cannot view it.

I have not been able to find the controls over such things. In the ReadMe file I found that the length of time is modifiable, but I did not see how to do that modification.

Thanks in advance, Héctor!!

Ralph

For the sake of completion and to compliment Héctor:

The Exorcism is complete. No more “ghost” thumbnails; TimThumb has disappeared and my blog is now alive and functioning perfectly now that I updated with WPP v2.1.6.

Best of the Fall and Year-End to all.

Perfect October/Halloween event, Héctor!

You have exorcised the ghost of TimThumb and now my blog is restored to vibrant health. Thanks much.

Take care, my friend, and enjoy the coming year-end and holiday season.

Hello again. I saw this post about the thumbnail repair situation and have not yet seen an answer on another thread about the same topic. Is there a way for me to remove the timthumb identifier to thumbnails and allow the new arrangement to generate pictures?

I have already made code changes, and reassigned a sample featured photo but the shadow/ghost of the thumbnail that is not showing still shows Properties that it was generated with Timthumb.

I’m looking forward to the solution and as you can tell I’m very concerned about the new people who are visiting my site.

At least I can someday tell “war stories” about cyber-security, etc., and the exorcism of TimThumb so that the ghost-pictures won’t show up again like they are currently on my Popular Posts menu: https://naturalconnectionshealthcare.com/blog/ .

Oh… I just read the text and it says timthumb.php

So an exorcism is in order. Right? How do I clean up the landscape?

I checked Properties on the blog posting’s thumbnail “ghost” and it had this identifier for the non-visible thumbnail:
https://naturalconnectionshealthcare.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/scripts/timthumb.php?src=https://naturalconnectionshealthcare.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/play_cover-150×150.jpg&h=50&w=50&zc=1

Does that help you think about what might be amiss in generating and attaching thumbnails?
Thanks

No luck. I deleted the image on the Play As Medicine entry. Then uploaded it again, designated it as the featured image, then clicked save and it showed where it was supposed to show.

But on the Popular Posts menu it does not show up.

Sigh. Ready for new ideas.

Thanks for the rapid feedback. I will have time in a short while to check and see if I can find a designated image link on all my posts. I looked earlier and could not find that control (I had seen it earlier on postings).

My question is that WPP is not displaying any thumbnail image.

Here is the site: https://naturalconnectionshealthcare.com/blog/

I looked in the Media folder and perhaps I do not have permission to even see where the thumbnails are located. They are being generated because that media list is constructed of thumbnails.

I will delete the image on one of my postings and then reinstall and maybe that will do the trick. Gotta eat dinner first. This is like a video game, invigorating. Thanks for the wisdom, Héctor!

Great question, I have the same one. It’d be very helpful.
I will look forward to receiving the solution when someone write it in this thread for you.

Best wishes!!

Ralph

Thanks, Hector. As I noted above, I changed the code:

I found the code that Hector named, selected it and replaced it as I described above:

He wrote: Please open wordpress-popular-posts.php, find this code (around line 717):

$thumb = “ID).”\” title=\””. $title_attr .”\”>” . get_the_post_thumbnail($wppost->ID, array($tbWidth), array(‘class’ => ‘wpp-thumbnail’, ‘alt’ => $title_attr, ‘title’ => $title_attr) ) .” <!– $tbWidth $tbHeight–>”;

… and change it for:

$thumb = “ID).”\” title=\””. $title_attr .”\”>” . get_the_post_thumbnail($wppost->ID, ‘thumbnail’, array(‘class’ => ‘wpp-thumbnail’, ‘alt’ => $title_attr, ‘title’ => $title_attr) ) .””;

I did that, however, there are still no thumbnails visible.

I just downloaded and used the Regenerate Thumbnails plug-in that had been mentioned above, and I then uploaded one of the posts, and still no thumbnails appear.

Should I make other changes?
Thank you for your managing this big event.
//Ralph

One final question: What size were the thumbnails prior to the deletion of Tim Thumb?

I found those to be good. If I do a custom size, I’d like to have it be what you used to have, because it left room for enough text (though I’d like an option for more text if possible).

Thanks!

This is very encouraging. I just logged back on to this thread after receiving a notice to check the thread.

I found the code that Hector named, selected it and replaced it.

He wrote: Please open wordpress-popular-posts.php, find this code (around line 717):

$thumb = “ID).”\” title=\””. $title_attr .”\”>” . get_the_post_thumbnail($wppost->ID, array($tbWidth), array(‘class’ => ‘wpp-thumbnail’, ‘alt’ => $title_attr, ‘title’ => $title_attr) ) .” <!– $tbWidth $tbHeight–>”;

… and change it for:

$thumb = “ID).”\” title=\””. $title_attr .”\”>” . get_the_post_thumbnail($wppost->ID, ‘thumbnail’, array(‘class’ => ‘wpp-thumbnail’, ‘alt’ => $title_attr, ‘title’ => $title_attr) ) .”“;

I did that, however, there are still no thumbnails visible.

One of the entries above said to be sure to enable thumbnails. I checked and my theme is Twenty Ten, which has this line near the top:
// This theme uses post thumbnails
add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ );

Do I need to add a size line of code as well? (You said for example,// Enable post thumbnails
add_theme_support(‘post-thumbnails’);
set_post_thumbnail_size(80, 80, true);

Now I am going to check this which was suggested by Jens:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

It is a bit late so maybe I’ll sleep on it. Maybe things will be different tomorrow.

Cheers// Ralph