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Hello! And thanks for a great service. :)
Image coming soon is the only thing thumbshots show anymore. What might be the reason for this, and when will we get back to normal again?
Thanks in advance.
Hi Mika,
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Thanks for the reply.
I did read that a few weeks ago, but I am not exactly sure what that is all about. I signed up to find out. We have used thumbshots as part of our BBCode. It worked like a charm -- until that notice to which you just referred me. So, what exactly should we do that all the thumbshots of different sites we have linked to on our discussion board would show the actual thumbshot like they did before (for years) and not the "Image coming soon" ?
Hi,
After you register for the new free (or paid) plan, you will get a new code under My Account > Thumbshots Images > Manage plan. There you simply do a find and replace the old free thumbshots code that looks like this:
http://open.thumbshots.org/image.aspx?url=xxx
to the new code in your manage plan page that looks something like this:
http://images.thumbshots.com/image.aspx?cid=yyy&url=xxx
It's just a small change.
Yeah, the instructions are simple enough, but I am still not understanding this. Our code looks like this:
<a href="{URL}" title="{URL}" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" onkeypress="window.open(this.href); return false;"><img src="http://open.thumbshots.org/image.pxf?url={URL}" alt="" /></a>
Changing it to this does not work, it kills it:
<a href="{URL}" title="{URL}" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" onkeypress="window.open(this.href); return false;"><img src="http://open.thumbshots.org/image.pxf?cid=yyy&url={URL}" alt="" /></a>
You have an error in your code. Look at the code under My Account > Thumbshots Images > Manage plan page after you registered for the free or paid account.
You should see the code that starts with http://images.thumbshots.com/image.aspx and not http://open.thumbshots.org/image.aspx
You need to replace the ones that start with open.thumbshots.com to images.thumbshots.com and pass a valid cid=yyy value.
Thanks,
Thanks for bearing with me :)
How would you change this? It's the very last one on that topic.
http://www.phpbb3bbcodes.com/map.php?forum=news&start=1740
It looks like you are still using our OLD code. Please replace the old code with the new one found at thumbshots.com (login required)
My Account > Thumbshots Images > Manage Plan
thanks
I modified that code according to the instructions. There's a problem with it when it comes to linking to other sites. It shows only the URL that has been put there even though the link might anywhere (here, for example). I mean, the link works, but the preview is, of course, of only the URL that's in the code. It should show a preview of the linked website and not just the website that's in the URL replacement. That's how it always worked before. Even the old code works, but instead of showing the preview of the URL in the code, it says "Image coming soon". This was not the case a few weeks ago. For years, that code to which I linked in my previous post, showed previews of what ever website was linked to (OK, sometimes some websites had not been crawled yet, so it said "Image coming soon", but the image actually did come soon).
How can this be fixed so that the BBCode shows a preview of what ever website is linked to?
Thanks :)
So, in essence, how should the code found here be modified, so that no matter where you link, the preview shows THAT website (and not the one on the code according to these new guidelines)?
/Support/Forum/tabid/105/forumid/1/postid/930/scope/posts/Default.aspx
From here:
to what?
OK, the URL replacement isn't necessary. That's all. It works like a charm.
Seriously, I find this service to be of great value. That's why I have been so curious about this. You've done a terrific job here. Kudos. :)