179 Posts
carin
8 years ago
6
Topic

When the thumbnail format gets changed on the image plugin (Upload - Image) after content got uploaded, how can the thumbnails be rebuild without again opening and saving each single article by hand?

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Kadministrator
8 years ago
2
Level 1

You can set image creation to something else than "on upload" - e.g. to Always if it doesn't exist

179 Posts
carin
8 years ago
1
Level 2

Thanks, but this is exactly what I mean. I set it to "always" and then I have to open and save every of my +1000 articles by hand so the thumbnails get rebuilt. I need a button that rebuilds all thumbnails for all articles in a category in one go.

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Kadministrator
8 years ago
0
Level 3

Hi,

you don't need to open and save those articles, thumbnails will get created when article is viewed. eg. when google bot opens it.

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Kadministrator
8 years ago
2
Level 1

But if you really need to force thumbnail creating I would suggest you create a new search & list of that category and put thumbnail on the list, this way multiple thumbnails will be generated in one go. i would also suggest you use "always if not exists" as this way thumbnails get generated only once.

179 Posts
carin
8 years ago
1
Level 2

Thank you for the quick response and the solution. The list methode regenerated the thumbs in most cases, some did not get rebuilt, no clue why.

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Kadministrator
8 years ago
0
Level 3

Hi,

it could be you are hitting some server limitation, image resizing is very resource intensive process.

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