thumbnail problems

[Juliette]

Hi all,

I am new to ppost I have come over to it after my wordpress blog kept getting hacked, and am hoping its going to be a good decision.

However I am experiencing a few problems for which there seems very little information.

Having looked at some open source templates I have settled on Raia. Having uploaded the software onto my browser I was making great progress, but have now hit some brick walls.

Firstly Thumbnails. The thumbnails presentation on the "browse" page seems problematic. I am getting a number of different bugs, the most obvious and easy to describe is that the when you hit re-generation of thumbs it doesnt seem to work, or at best only partially works (I have a 140 pictures in the database, and might only remake around 30 of the thumbs) the control panel just hangs and goes blank.

Also my categoeries are not showing up on the browse page.

These are the first issues but there are others

Any help greatly appreciated.
you can view my blog at www.thailandfishingandgolfholidays.com

Thanks in anticipation

[Dennis]

The reason the thumbnails are not fully working is because the script timed out. You need to regenerate in batches.

Try this addon: http://www.pixelpost.org/extend/addons/thumbnails-regenerator/

BTW: your blog isn't accessible since it has a nice warning:


Reported Attack Site!

This web site at www.thailandfishingandgolfholidays.com has been reported as an attack site and has been blocked based on your security preferences.

Attack sites try to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to attack others, or damage your system.

Some attack sites intentionally distribute harmful software, but many are compromised without the knowledge or permission of their owners.

[Juliette]

Hi Dennis,

Thank you very much for your help. Also thanks even more for advising me that surfers will still get an attack site warning. This is a hangover from me having had wordpress software on that domian that was hacked, which is in fact the reason why I came over to pixelpost!!!

On that subject, I just wondered if there are any steps I can take to make my new blog software more secure? I was hoping to maybe change the names of severla of the files or folders, so any bots surfing trying to to crack index.php pages or admin pages etc cannot get in. Any suggestions would be gratefully appreciated. My wordpress site being hacked cost me a considerable amount of work, but led me to pixelpost so I guess every cloud has a silver lining!

I have now written to google to ask to have the warnings for the domain removed. (I assume its a google warning that is coming up?)

Thanks

Jules

[Dennis]

Making your blog more secure depends on the filepermissions you need to upload an image. If your provider forces you to set the images and thumbnail folder to CHMOD 777 in order to upload images there is an addon to make it more secure.

This is because CHMOD 777 allows anyone to write in these folders. Much better would be a CHMOD 755. I wrote an addon for this to change the permission to non-writable for both folders and automatically change them during upload by providing your FTP password. You can find this addon over at http://www.schonhose.nl/pixelpost-addons/ftppermissions/