Wp-Thumbie WordPress Plugin From Blogsdna Lab
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First of all we would like to thank Ajay Dsouza for allowing to use his WordPress plugin Contextual Related Posts. Entire Wp-Thumbie Plugin is based on Contextual Related Post plugin. So what is Wp-Thumbie? Wp-Thumbie is WordPress Plugin to Display Thumbnail Related Posts on WordPress blog.
Currently there is only one WordPress plugin Linkwithin which provides such functionality. Unfortunately that plugin doesn’t allow any customization and that’s what leads us to develop Wp-Thumbie. Check out below list of Wp-Thumbie Features.
Features of Wp-Thumbie WordPress Plugin
1. Display Related Posts with thumbnail image automatically in content / feed, no need to edit template files
2. Doesn’t use any custom field to generate thumbnail images
3. You can manually add code to your template where you want the Wp-thumbie to be displayed
4. Exclude posts from categories
5. Exclude display of thumbnail related posts on Pages
6. Exclude pages in thumbnail related Posts list
7. Related posts based on content and post title
8. Set Thumbnail image size
9. Turn on/off Post excerpt
10. Set length of Post excerpt
11. Different Styling for displaying thumbnail related posts
You can use Wp-Thumbie plugin on any self-hosted WordPress blog without need of modifying your existing posts. Wp-Thumbie automatically extracts first image from posts and on fly resizes to defined thumbnail size.
You can set number of thumbnail related posts to be displayed with horizontal (will be made available in next plugin update) and vertical list style or raw output format and set your own styling.
Wp-Thumbie
Wp-Thumbie Option Page
(Click on Image to Enlarge)
Requirements
1. WordPress version above 2.5
2. Your Webhost must support Php Gb Library
How to Install Wp-Thumbie
1. Download Wp-Thumbie
2. Extract contents of wp-thumbie.zip in Wp-content/plugins folder
3. Activate Wp-Thumbie from WordPress Admin dashboard
4. If you uncheck “Add related posts to the post content on single posts” option on Wp-Thumbie settings page then you must add below code in your WordPress Theme Template file
<?php if(function_exists (’ wp_thumbie ‘)) wp_thumbie(); ?>
Make sure wp-thumbie & wp-thumbie/cache folder permissions are set to 777. Cache folder will be created automatically once you activate and start using wp-thumbie.
CSS Info
Main CSS ID “wp-thumbie”
List CSS ID “wp_thumbie_li”
Thumbnail Image CSS ID “wp_thumbie_thumb”
Title URL CSS ID “wp_thumbie_title”
Post Excerpt CSS ID “description”
We would like to thank Davinder of Tothepc for helping us in developing CSS for displaying thumbnail related posts and providing us default image for Wp-Thumbie.
Download Wp-Thumbie
Download Wp-Thumbie Thumbnail Related Post Plugin for WordPress.
Upcoming Features
1. Horizontal Style listing
2. Support for Custom field & Attachements
3. Ability to set open links in new windows
FAQ
Thumbnails are not displayed ?
Ans. If thumbnails are not appearing then checkout permission of wp-thumbie & wp-thumbie/cache folder permissions it should be 755.
if you see message “Php GD library is not supported” message then contact your hosting provider and ask for Php GD library.
You can see Wp-Thumbie in action on this blog
If you have any question, suggestions for new features or issues then please comment here.
Reader Comments
Awesome Plugin Sandip Sir!!!
Have installed it on my blog http://www.PcDrome.com …
Really cool plugin Sandip.. Hope to see some more plugins from you….
Good one, the feed version of this plugin is messed up on your feed, some alignment issues.
Thanks @nirmal Yea I know that issue, have planned to implement stylesheet for feeds to retain styling. Will work on that part for next plugin update
Sandip, great job congrats.
simply brilliant jobs and thanks for the share, i’ll try out this plugins soons.
Awesome! I am gonna use it as alternative to Linkwithin. Congrats Sandip, Really a good one!
Congrats on your first plugin Sandip. It looks good. For the RSS feeds you might want to switch to using inline styles as RSS does not support external CSS.
Nice plugin Sandeep.. hope to see some quick update on this plugin soon!!
Hi,
The plugin looks good but upon installing it, the thumbnails are not appearing !
I have the same problem as paritosh
Awesome workout there i am gonna use this now
I just found this plugin n SML.its looking very useful plugin..I am implementing on my blog ..lets see how it works..
Problem rectified, thanks to the creator. He was of real help !!!! And the plugin is ****ing awesome.
Hmm. Looks nice, but thumbnails aren’t appearing for me either. T_T Help? Have set thumbie (recursed into all the subfolders) to 777..
There’s also a minor problem with grabbing the excerpts; when my posts start with an image gallery, the plugin ends up grabbing the entire gallery instead. But I don’t need it, and I can live with it. XD
Thanks for the credit :)
does this work with WPMU?
I am using linkwithin from more than 2 months now. and i am impressed with it. I came to know about this from Shoutmeloud and felt very happy to see this.
I will try this out this evening. and replace linkwithin.
Thanks…
Thank you for the plugin
Hello, this is an awesome plugin, but unfortunately I am a bit confused with thumbnails. My issue is that they do not appear!
I am testing it locally running wamp, so permissions are for sure 777 and i have GD Library activated. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you for your time and your help on advance.
A feature request : If possible add a column to specify a default image in case any post does not have an image..
Fantastic plugin! Many thanks.
Is it possible to exclude image caption code from the excerpt? Most of my posts begin with an image and the excerpt displays –
[caption id=”attachment_610″ align=”alignleft” width=”185″ caption=” – etc, etc.
Thanks again
Hi,
I’ve installed the plugin but the thumbnails don’t appear. I’ve changed the permissions of wp-thumbie folder and nothing. The plugin takes an image of the post content or the thumbnail of the post?
Maybe someone could help me,
Thanks,
Hi,
I am the same that the previous comment. This is the code that generates the plugin in my page:
thanks,
Hello,
nice plugin but as I use another plugin (Post Thumb ) to create thumbnails I wonder how to adapt your plugin to use Post Thumb instead of Timthumb ?
Instead of
I need
Great idea, but… does not work for me – it makes some syntax errors on all my single post pages. I have unchecked “Add related posts to the post content on single posts” option on Wp-Thumbie settings page and then I added the code as advised above:
php if(function_exists (’ wp_thumbie ‘)) wp_thumbie(); ?>
I use Wordpress 2.8.4 and Thesis Theme.
Hi,
great plugin.. just one question.. and a little issue to add to the next release..
It’s better that u make to people possible to open the new pages in _blank or not… I don’t wont the pages to open in _blank but i can’t find how to change it…
Any idea?
fyi, this does not work with wpmu. too bad. any plans to make it compatible?
Hello, the thumb dont work for me. I have set 777 permissions and i have GD library. I use 000webhost free.
What am I doing wrong?
Thank you.
Great plugin. Works flawlessly. The only changes I made was the CSS so that the look matches my blog. Thanks!
Hoping there’s some support for this plugin.
I have the same issue as Todor Christov. When you click a related link, it opens a new window or tab.
Rather then opening a new tab, the page should load in the browser window currently being used.
How would I fix this?
Thank you
Re: links opening a new tab or window.
There seems to be a typo error in wp-thumbie/wp-thumbie.php
In the section “//————–Code to Output WP-Thumbie in Verticle Format—-” the underscore is missing from
” target=”_top” for the $title link.
Hope that helps.
David
It’s exactly what I am looking for. Yesterday I just tried using a widget called linkwithin hosted script on their site that it looks cool but it consumes a lot of your computer resources and it’s not compatible with adsense either. You’re the man!
It’s not working at all The thumbnails don,t show up
There are tons of bugs here. It displays the same posts!
Hi Sandip, my problem cannot be solved due to the theme issue as I emailed to you. This was confirmed by the theme owner.
Same problem as many others. No thumbnails, but an ugly vertical border. I also have my permissions set and GD library. Looking for another solution or going back to Contextual Related Posts until there’s an update that fixes this.
nice plugin.. but the backlink annoys me alot..
The “exclude categories” option does not work! For some reason, the list of category IDs that I enter is not being saved when I “Save Options”.
I don’t get the people saying it’s buggy. I’m not having any issues and hell, the developer is using it on his own site and there are no bugs. I think these people did something wrong.
It shows a blank thumbnail instead of the real thumbnail, as seen here:
http://bombsanddollars.com/index/2009/10/dollar-tanking/
(Note as to what thumbnail code is used for the thumbnail?)
I LOVE this plug in..I use Thesis and I am thinking about losing the previews and just having a long list of Thumbies instead on each page. I have only one problem. I have some charts that pull through in their full size at the same time my post image comes through. Since they are all statistic related pages (run along sidebar)they pull three statistics pages as thumbies..I have stacked charts that are full sized all along the bottom along with my thumbies of the image I posted.
Great plugin. Going to give it aa try on my blog.
Does this work when you host your images in photobucket ? The plugin is not working here and I think that maybe it is the problem…
Thank you so much for the plug in. Like a few others, I am not able to display the thumbnail.
http://opticalillusion.site11.com/?p=53
What thumbnail code should I use for the thumbnail? Not sure what I am doing wrong. =(
Thank you for creating this plug in.
What is the trick to get your thumbnail to display? I’ve set all my folder/sub folder to 777, but still trying to get it to work. =(
Hi! This is a nice plugin. However not working with my blog. No thumbnails. CHMOD done. Also upgraded to 0.1.6
Still no thumbnails. Am using Thesis theme.
I am already using timthumb…I wonder why this is why my site doesn’t display the related posts thumbnail. I want to keep using it as my main form of pulling the first image from the post to use on my mainpage but was hoping you could advise as to whether or not this also stuffs up the timthumb embedded in the wp thumbie plugin?
It is definitely not showing the thumbnails as its designed. I have the latest WP and have permissions 777.
Aother thing, I can’t find where I am meant to edit in the stlye.css or single.php to change the way related posts are displayed. ADo you have help on this one? Cheers for creating this plugin. Is pretty cool.
Very cool plugin! I hope you can help me:
Issue: Thumbnail does not display
I have the following set : permissions 777 and using latest version 0.1.6.
Sandip,
I´d like to congratulate you for this plugin, very well done.
I do however have a question. Is it possible, in the future, to be able to relate posts via tags instead of content? I think that the way that WP uses tags as keywords could be useful here, and also consume less resources that way. Similar to how the Simple Tags plugin work.
Keep up the good work!
hi, i has install it. but the thumbnail are not display. why?
thanks for informaiton,