The most common support items for Mimbo Pro are to do with the TimThumb script – and minor problems with it’s usage. Below are the most common things that fix the problems with the image resize system.
- The scripts/cache folder needs to be given the permissions 777 in order to save the cache files. This speeds up the image serving which in turn makes your server happy.
- The custom field key is case sensitive. It must be “Image” not “image”
- The custom field value for the image path should be relative to the site root. This means you should not include the http://sitename.com bit, but include everything else.
- On some server setups the .htaccess file found in the scripts folder can break things. If this happens then renaming/ deleting the .htaccess file should fix things. Make sure you try all the other suggestions first.
- If the blog is in a sub folder then include the sub folder in the image path.
With any luck the suggestions above will solve your Tim Thumb related problems. If not then you can still contact us through the help ticketing system.
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So how can I use a remote image with this script ?
I’m afraid that’s something that’s not possible. We could open it up but then the script would be open to abuse since anybody could use the script to resize their own images making it very easy to crash someone elses website.
would it be possible to use the remote image url to copy the image into the site remotely? (I.e., importing and saving the image into the site?) It would be nice to skip the step of copying a image to the computer and then uploading it to your site. Or is that unrealistic? Or am I just lazy?
Phil – this would suffer from the same problems. If you did this then someone malicious could easily copy new images to your server, or even copy over a script of some sort opening up your site to lots of hacking opportunities.
Do i have to put the photo on my server? I try to use flickr for my thumber,but it doesn’t work…
is there any way that I can use flickr as the thumber photos? as I don’t have enough bandwidth for it..
many thanks if you can help me out:)
Hi man, look, I have my blog on http://www.misite.com/blog, but the problem is when I need to generate the cache image. I have set the 777 permisions to this folders, buy nothing happened. Now, I ask you, is not necesary change the cache path in timthumb.php?
Im talking of this line
// set path to cache directory (default is ./cache)
// this can be changed to a different location
$cache_dir = ‘./cache’;
Thanks a lot man!
I have WP2.7 and Mimbo Pro (Multi) 1.2. I have set custom fields using the Image key and /blog/… for the path for the photo to associate and have viewed on the front page. Nothing. Nothing shows in the categories or carousel either.
http://www.consciouscup.com/blog
A beginning work in progress.
Thanks for any help.
Has timthumbs ever been tested on a HostGator virtual server? I am having serious issues and support is such a pain, so I thought I would ask before moving hosts.
I have all the basics straight. 777, correct image path etc.. but the thumbs still do not show up. I get no errors.. just no thumbs.
This is a VERY adult oriented NSFW blog so I don’t want to post the link here.
I downloaded “TheUnstandard 1.2.1 by Derek Punsalan” which is supposed to have TimThumb in it that automatically generates thumbnails, but it doesn’t seem to be working. I set the permissions to 777, but the only thing that is happening is the thumbnails are plain grey, meaning they changed, but not the right way.
I just installed this on a website running WP2.8.6 but thumbnails don’t get generated. I set permissions to 777. Since I am on hostgator, I even asked them to whitelist the domain as mentioned in http://code.google.com/p/timthumb/issues/detail?id=8
However, still the images don’t show, just the alt tag. Removing the timthumb script call in Firebugs shows the original image so I know that the path is correct. Any advice would be great! The link where this can be checked is http://buzzr.in/deals/ha-moving-sale
I already try to chmod the cache folder, but there is no image cached, how can I get the timthumb working???