Comments on: Setting up PhotoBlogs: MTEmbedImage

By: rambohoho

rambohoho — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:42:46 +0000

can i let this plugin store thumbnails in other folders i specify?

By: phred

phred — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 06:15:45 +0000

Hmm.. difficult one!
Is your site hosted somewhere or is it on your own server..?
Yeah, I’d also go for the permissions. The perl process probably runs as a different user id as your user..
Disk space shouldn’t be the problem..?

What you could do: Move your already generated thumbnails into a different directory and let MTEmbedImage generate the thumbnails for the old photos.. dunno what that would say but it would be something to investigate :)

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:23:53 +0000

Thank you for your useful code! I was wondering if you might have any insight into the problem I’m having. I have been using MTEmbedImage, and it’s working fine for a while, then mysteriously stopped creating thumbnails. It finds the file and will print out any information about it I request using the provided tags, so I can print the full-size image. However, it just will not create a thumbnail! I am at a loss.

I was wondering if it was my permissions, but I have all permissions fully enabled for the folder my photos are in. Do you have any ideas of what I might check? Thanks in advance!

By: phred

phred — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 06:00:40 +0000

Hi Banoota..

1. MTEmbedImage doesn’t help you with doing a “archive page”. It just helps you to automatically scale your images and displaying it properly. You can have archive pages an such by using MTPhotoGallery for instance.
2. MTembedimage does save its sized images in the directory you saved your original image. With a suffix: If you sized your image “photos/myalbum/myphoto.jpg” to 250 pixels horizontal, it will save it to “photos/myalbum/myphoto-250.jpg”.

I cannot help you very much further as I’m not using MTEmbedImage actively as I switched my active blog to Wordpress.

By: b.

b. — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 07:50:06 +0000

thanks for the tip, it worked fine here — i just can’t figure out 2 things:

1. how do i make an archive of thumbnail images instead of the boring plain text.

2. where does MTembedimage save my photos? I can’t find them =/

By: phred

phred — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 05:59:11 +0000

Jennifer: It seems that your code didn't make it to the blog.. Could you mail me directly?

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 04:53:21 +0000

So I have been struggling with MTEmbedImage all night.
Where is your photos directory?
My pictures are stored in
../twenty-five.net/Blog_files/
Movable type is here:
../twenty-five.net/Movabletype/
Yet even when I put a *.jpg in the Movabletype directory and try the following code:
or any other variant, I get nothing. Looking at the source, the whole thing disappears.
I have also tried changing the first line to:
or
and nothing works!
Can anyone help?
Thanks amillion.

By: beausmith

beausmith — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for your comment. The MTEmbedImage plugin was somewhat complicated. I really wish that developers would always place a handful of very different implementation examples so that the user would be able to see the usage and be able to customize based upon the examples.

I ended up using the code twice like this on my individual entry archive. The javascript swaps images.




    
       
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             width=""
             height=""
             name="mainphoto" />

By: Philipp Keller

Philipp Keller — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you for your code example..! And wish you pleasant stay in china..!