Can't get images into post field in Wordpress

[alex12345]

In my wordpress blog, I cannot figure out how to switch out the "no image" buttons that are next to all the posts on my page here Austin-Network|Austin’s first 24/7 live streaming entertainment network. The theme I have has a field in the dashboard asks for "image url, Upload your image with 'Add Media' above post window, copy the url and paste it here." I cannot get anything to work though.
When I upload a picture that is 100x57 which is field size I get a question mark icon. When I upload a smaller picture it gives me the box with X through it.
I am probably doing something silly, so if anyone knows how to fix this please help. Thanks.

[dangergeek]

Have you checked that the images have uploaded properly? Use your FTP client to browse to where the images should be, you may need to change permissions if the folder is empty

[alex12345]

Hi,
The picture resides in wp-content/uploads/2009/05 all of which are set to 777 access. There is an empty folder wp-content/uploads/2009/06 which I moved picture into to test, but then it did not even show in my media gallery. When I move it back to the 05 folder it shows in media gallery but I cannot get it on page. What else can I try? Thanks.

[dangergeek]

The field in the dashboard called 'image url' are you typing the full url in to this ot just part of the url?

You've identified that the images are definately uploaded on the server so now make sure that the url pointing to them is 100% correct.

[alex12345]

I've changed the link to include all the directories, but it does not change the small image next to the posts. The image-img-thumb.jpg files I am trying to replace is located in wp-content/themes/premiumnews/images and not the uploaded one. I added pic to same folder as the image-img-thumb.jpg and pointed to it in the dashboard theme field but that didn't work.

I think there is a different spot in dashboard that should have the the proper directory with wp/content/themes/premiumnews/image-img-thumb.jpg already in there and I just need to add pics to folder and change image-img-thumb.jpg to blahblah.jpg. But I don't know where that field is.
Thanks for all the help so far, I'm sorry, but I just can't seem to figure this out.

[dangergeek]

It's fixable if your good with PHP.


If not...
Try this link here:
http://www.tutorial9.net/web-tutoria...custom-fields/

[alex12345]

Ok...
I modified code of layout.php to change the default picture. Here is that code...
<div class="box">

<?php
include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/includes/version.php');

$the_query = new WP_Query('cat=-'. $ex_feat . ',-' . $ex_vid . '&showposts=' . $showposts . '&orderby=post_date&order=desc');

$counter = 0; $counter2 = 0;

while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post(); $do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;
?>

<?php $counter++; $counter2++; ?>

<div class="post <?php if ($counter == 1) { echo 'fl'; } else { echo 'fr'; $counter = 0; } ?>">

<?php if ( get_post_meta($post->ID, 'image', true) ) { ?> <!-- DISPLAYS THE IMAGE URL SPECIFIED IN THE CUSTOM FIELD -->

<img src="<?php echo bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/thumb.php?src=<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "image", $single = true); ?>&amp;h=57&amp;w=100&amp;zc=1&amp;q=95" alt="" class="th" />

<?php } else { ?> <!-- DISPLAY THE DEFAULT IMAGE, IF CUSTOM FIELD HAS NOT BEEN COMPLETED -->

<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/an10057.jpg" alt="" class="th" />

<?php } ?>

<h2><?php the_category(', ') ?></h2>
<h3><a title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
<p class="posted">Posted on <?php the_time('d F Y'); ?></p>
<p><?php echo strip_tags(get_the_excerpt(), '<a><strong>'); ?> <span class="continue"><a title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">Continue Reading</a></span></p>
<p class="comments"><?php comments_popup_link('Comments (0)', 'Comments (1)', 'Comments (%)'); ?></p>

</div><!--/post-->

<?php if ( !($counter2 == $showposts) && ($counter == 0) ) { echo '<div class="hl-full"></div>'; ?> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <?php } ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<div class="fix" style="height:20px"></div>

<p class="ar hl3"><a href="<?php echo bloginfo('wpurl').'/?page_id='.$GLOBALS['archives_id']; ?>" class="more">SEE MORE ARTICLES IN THE ARCHIVE</a></p>

</div><!--/box-->

I read through article a couple times and tried changing the key to "thumbnail" and "thumb" while switching the value to image gallery post link and the link to image inside the content folder. I still cannot get the individual post to display its own image. The modified posts display either a question mark or an X.