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You may have noticed that for the past couple of days any new posts you write refuse to show up with thumbnails in the Popular Posts widget (the official one!). There is a temporary fix floating around the internet that I will outline below. Hopefully Blogger will get this fixed automatically.
The problem has something to do with the image hosting for the thumbnails, but I won't go into that. In order to get the thumbnails to show you need to do the following to the first picture in your post, you do not need to do it for all.
After adding the picture into your post, switch to Edit HTML. In this section you will find a part that looks like the following (look for the first one, at the top):
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/nintendo_3ds_23802.html"
imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"
target="_blank""><img alt="Nintendo 3DS Logo" border="0" height="56"
src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/--AWSNblmvZA/TWt8UC2yFDI/AAAAAAAAAI0/vY8suL7AggQ/s400/3DS+Logo.png" title="Nintendo 3DS Logo" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
You need to change what is highlighted in orange to the following:
src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/--
You can do this to older posts too by editing them after and it will load up new thumbnails in the widget. (The part where is says "lh6" may be different for your images so leave it as it appears in yours.)
This does work, but it needs to be done to all posts so I hope Google gets this fixed as soon as possible.
As of 10/03/2011 the thumbnails appears to be working automatically, so no need for this. I will leave it here in case it crops up again soon.
ReplyDeleteHey man, thanks for the post, but unfortunately didn't work. Still getting a distorted image from the non-main image of the post. Have you happened to encounter this anymore?
ReplyDeleteThis fix was for a problem that occurred about a month ago which has since been fixed by Google. But the Popular Posts widget does seem to have sporadic problems, but they seem to be inconsistent so I have no idea what to do! Sorry
ReplyDeleteHey I wonder if I will place an image at the bottom part of each post will the popular post widget still get the image in the bottom for making a thumbnail in the popular post widget?
ReplyDeleteRocelo, the popular post widget should still work. It picks up the first image in the post, whether that is at the bottom or anywhere else.
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