All the images in my homepage dissapeared

Hi TagDiv.

First of all, you have a very good theme.

It’s certainly true that WordPress powers the 21% of the websites of the whole Internet, and Joomla does the 10% of it. Despite of it, the level of organization, professionalism, freedom to do the things in a very correct and precise way that you have in Joomla, it does not exist or apply in WordPress, because it was created to be easy all the time. Anyway, in some way or another, I decided to create a blog using WordPress, so I bought your Newspaper theme, installed it, and started configuring the different elements.

My problems are these…

01- All the images in the homepage disappeared in the demo. If I click to any post (article) they show on that post.

02- Other thing, is there some way that I can have a special folder in which to handle ALL my media files in an organized way and not having to use the Upload button all the time? Also, I discovered another disgrace in WordPress and is the autogeneration of thumbnails. Professional designers prefer to have the control, not to have WordPress have it for you.

I think that there might be some ways in order to make it work in that way and get rid of the Upload Media. By the way, trying to solve that situation I already bought two other plugins which are WP Edit Pro (which is an editor) with a bonus called “WP Edit Pro File Manager” and WP Media Folder. They both are used to “fix” the damn problem that WordPress has about dealing with the images. Standard WordPress users don’t mind about organization, but professional web designers do.

Please, I need your help concerning this topic. How can I contact your direct support and not just the forum?

You need to regenerate thumbnails for your site once theme is installed to generate all the various sizes for the blocks/modules. You should not use the demo data for a live or real website, only for testing or client demo (speaking as a 20 year webdev myself).

You can of course simply upload images via FTP if you don’t plan to use them as ‘featured’ images — for ‘featured’ images you generally need to upload those via the media manager or use a third party solution/plugin (e.g., bulk uploader to media manager).

Or combo of FTP upload with plugin to move to media manager, e.g.,
http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/bulk-upload-files-to-wordpress-media-library-using-ftp/

For questions about how to use WORDPRESS — which is not part of the theme — you should of course check the millions of pages of help on the web via Google, and of course the WordPress CODEX .. often you can do searches like “image upload wordpress codex” to find help quickly.

You can change the default upload directory, and you can turn off the upload by /month/day/ options easily.

Obviously you should expect the TagDiv support folk to educate you on how the basics of WordPress actually works — only elements related to using the theme. Image uploading is part of WordPress and not a “theme” function, per se.

I don’t work here – so just some feedback while you wait for official reply 🙂

First of all, I have to give you the thanks, Chris. I installed the plugin Regenerate Thumbnails. It didn’t work, but I need to tell you that you are the first person that give me an advise about WordPress and I really appreciate that.

I come from the HTML hand code, Dreamweaver, graphic design and Joomla platforms and those are other worlds. All of this series of problems that I have with WordPress is solved by just one marvelous and free component in Joomla, which I repeat is far superior than WordPress. But I know that as this is the first time that I am trying to use this platform, I have a long way to run and to learn and people like you are a real blessing from God. Again, thanks so much for your answer. I’ve seen in this forum, which I started checking today because of this problem, and I saw that you have helped many people here. And you don’t do that because of you, but because the grace that God put into you. Be so much blessed you and your family.

My email is: info@lfstudio.com and my website is LFStudio.com I will try to continue looking for the solution to this situation.

Thanks, again.

I don’t know a lot about Joomla but it doesn’t matter much which is superior, matters which one lets you make something superior. There’s more than the car, there’s also the driver and that’s why you are here trying to learn how to drive wordpress. I’m not defending wordpress over joomla, I just don’t want to say that something is worst when in reality I don’t even know it that well.

About images and thumbnails, yes they can get messy. If you don’t want image resizing (thumb generation) just go to options and set the sizes of thumbnails to 0x0 (zero), voilá, no more image generation. This has the downside of making your visitors download the original images all the time, even if all they are seeing is a thumbnail of them. Making thumbnails will create an image of 2KB to show a 100×65 thumbnail but people are free to serve a 70KB 700×357 image that will be displayed 100×65 anyway, downsized only pixel-wise and not KB-wise.

One thing though: You’ll see 3 thumbnail sizes in WP options but that doesn’t mean that your WP makes only 3 thumb regens, if some plugin or theme registers a new size, that new size will be created and you won’t see it in the options. Woocommerce “installs” 3 thumb sizes regenerations for example, and bam! suddenly you have 10000+ images in your media folder because every upload will be multiplied 6 or more times!

In that regard, this theme could get a bit of optimization. This theme is very beautiful but has lots of blocks, sliders, galleries and what not. So this theme registers a boatload of thumb sizes regens to fit all those blocks. After a while I figured out which blocks and sliders I prefer to use and those I don’t and so I commented out all those thumb regens I don’t use. This should be done, if possible, before running a plugin like thumbnail regeneration or all thumb sizes registered will be regenerated.

PS: support is always answering questions at the forum (during work time ofc, shown top right) but you can try e-mail, they are quick to respond, I wasn’t even their client yet and they answered pretty quick.

• This reply was modified 11 years by nf_prt.

@nf_prt Starting with the next version of the newspaper theme ( newspaper 5 ) the theme will have panel thumbs option section (similar to the one that is already available in newsmag theme, that if you are using it) from which you can decide which modules you want to sue and disable the thumbs that you don’t need. Then regenerate thumbnails with a plugin like force regenerate thumbs or a similar one you can delete all thumbs and generate only those needed.

Great news Lucian, that is neat, thanks!

Hi, Lucian.

Thanks for replying to this topic. Can I send you my admin details to this email account contact@tagdiv.com? Or, is there another email where I can send the admin user and password? I can confirm you that the regeneration of thumbnails didin’t work. In the meantime, here’s the link to the blog.

http://lfstudio.com/blog/

As you can see, the images are not present on the homepage, but when I click on any article, they appear. What I want must be possible because looking closely to the images in the demo, they are located outside the UPLOADS directory, and that’s exactly what I want, being able to control the images in WordPress. Anyway, I think that this is a pretty good group here, and thanks to God, I will solve my problem with your help. Just confirm me the email to send you the details.

You can change the file uploads folder by reading the documentation for WordPress .. of which there is much in their “codex” … some core things for WordPress can be editied in the wp-config.php file — the theme (again) does *not* control where images are uploaded.

See:
(note section on changing location of image directory)
https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Moving_uploads_folder

default location
define( 'UPLOADS', 'blog/wp-content/uploads' );

change to something like /images
define( 'UPLOADS', 'blog/images' );

If you do *ANYTHING* else with images, like sub-sub folders, or other folders — this would generally ONLY be for images you want to drop into things like an ad widget or manually place into a post.

For example you could put your ads into /blog/ads/ and all your ad file graphics there, which are then used when placing manual ads.

If you want images to be assigned to a “featured” image — you need to
a) make sure images are in the uploads folder, whatever you call it
b) use a plugin to make WP see those images

Hope that provides further help.

I’ll be off support help for everybody here the next few weeks, so have a great month everybody!

-CS