Hi, guys.
I tried twice to find out from you how I create images preview for existing articles (I have over 6000).
The first time I was advised use “rebuild the thumbnails” – http://themeforest.net/item/newspaper/5489609/comments?page=41#comment_5418482
And its not work – http://themeforest.net/item/newspaper/5489609/comments?page=41#comment_5421841
The second time I was advised use “Auto Post Thumbnail”. I try, but this solution is awful! Plugin makes the picture preview square, quite different from those that made by template if hands set!
please. help me.
This may not help you, but Regenerate thumbnails plugin worked great for us with thousands of files.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
HOWEVER: if your system “times out” then you need to disable other plugins while doing a large operation on so many images – especially if you have larger then needed images (like if you uploaded 1MB files for images vs 50kb for a gallery picture, as one example), and perhaps set your website to “closed temporarily” (plugin to do this I think). Upshot is you want to
1) make sure your domain on your hosting plan has enough resources available to do a major operation
2) make sure you have enough disk space for all the new image sizes (some people with smaller hosting storage forget about this, as you’re basically perhaps tripling the number of images you will have from say 18,000 to 36,000 (3 old thumbs, 3 new thumbs)
So, plugin will “die” if not enough memory to run or space to write.
If your system still cannot handle doing that much image processing, you may want to look at the Jetpack plugin, PHOTON: http://jetpack.me/support/photon/ .
When you change to ANY new theme in WP you need to redo the image thumbnails as not all themes use the same layout, or thumbnail sizes, which of course is one of the things which makes each WP theme different.
Note that you may wish to also review the various plugins at wordpress.org on this topic as redoing all your graphics is part of using ANY new theme; it’s not specific to this theme.
Auto Post Thumbnail PRO for $7 from Themeforest also works awesome on one of our sites since we pull in content from our mothership site to a sister site via RSS.
Sorry don’t have better help on this one.
