Thumbnails important changes to display the thumbnail

[jessemullinax]

Script URL: http://www.iceplugs.com/linkman17/icepl ... ectory.php
Version of script: 1.7
Hosting company: LiquidWeb.com
URL of phpinfo.php: http://www.iceplugs.com/info.php
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I guess Thumbnails changed their settings and is not allowing linkman 1.7 to display the thumbnails. Instead its displaying a thumbnail that says Important Changes check thumbnails.com

I know in the code we need to update in the settings.php http://open.thumbshots.org/image.pxf?url=

what do you recommend we update it to in order to display the thumbnails once again?

[Klemen]

Yes, they changed their rules. I got it working like this:

1. Register for an account:

2. When you activate the account login and create a free plan.

3. Wait a few minutes, then from the horizontal menu select
My Account > Thumbshot images > Manage plan

4. There you will see a piece of HTML code. Copy the URL that looks something like this (don't use this one, it won't work):

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http://images.thumbshots.com/image.aspx?cid=abcdefghij&v=1&w=[Width]&url=[URL]

5. Enter the entire URL in your LinkMan settings, but replace "[Width]" with "120" and delete "[URL]", for example:

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http://images.thumbshots.com/image.aspx?cid=abcdefghij&v=1&w=120&url=

6. Wait few hours and the thumbshots should appear again

[rcetc]

Thumbnails has change their terms and you have to go and register for a free account. Then you pick what plan you want: free or pay for so many hits. Free is 5000 hits a month. If you want more then you set up to pay for that. I choice the free plan and then was given a new code which contains and API key. Mine looks like this minus the API key code.

Place this HTML code on your web page.

<img src="http://images.thumbshots.com/image.aspx?cid= [ API Code ] %3d&v=1&w=[Width]&url=[URL]" border="1" alt="Preview by Thumbshots.com" />

Replace the [URL] tag with the Web page URL you want to display. The URL should be encoded to avoid conflicting with reserved characters. (e.g. &url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.yahoo.com)

Replace the [Width] tag with a numeric size value between 60 to 480. Default is 120. (e.g. &w=480)

Tip: For better security, allow only your operated web sites to host this code by setting Valid Domains under the Options tab.

Within your Linkman 1.7 admin panel under settings: (Thumbshots service URL:) place your code given to you minus anything after url=

My address looks like this: http://images.thumbshots.com/image.aspx?cid= [ API Code ] %3d&v=1&w=120&url=

I removed my API code from this example. But when you sign up the code will be generated within this script for you. I placed mine in my footer.txt file and the modified version in my admin settings. After that wait for about 15 minutes and everything will start working again.

[rcetc]

As a post script to my last entry on this subject, I found a different provider for thumbnails; the site is posted here: http://www.bitpixels.com/ I am currently using this service and I find it much easier with 500,000 hits a month for FREE and no contract hassles. Just post their script in the footer.txt that they provide and another script they provide into your admin panel location. So far all is well.

Cancellation of Screenshots requires you to post a meta tag to you site that they provide for FREE accounts and after their bots scans your site, your FREE account will be canceled within seven days, if that’s your choice.

[jessemullinax]

http://www.bitpixels.com/ was a way easier method of fixing this issue! I tried both and bitpixels was simple and works fast! Thumbnails were up instantly. My only issue with them is that they do not provide thumbnails to websites URLs that reference another page in a directory. Or is this just me? Again, thanks for the helpful suggestions!

[jessemullinax]

Also, Do you know why BitPixel displays "No image, invalid URL" for some of my thumbnails that have a good URL? Here is my example, have a look - http://www.2lbin.com/linkman17/2lbinlinks.php
I double checked the URLs and is fine and just like the others that are displaying the thumbnails properly.
Any ideas and suggestions?

[Klemen]

Perhaps they don't yet have screenshots of those websites?

Or they block their spider by robots.txt