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1. boxturtleme
   Member
   Dec 26, 2009, 4:01 PM

   I tried shifting my blog to duotone, but when I did so all my pictures disappeared. Checking the source code I see this:

   [code]<img src="http://visualdash.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/l_1600_1200_cc95ec47-fd52-407e-ac90-2d86db344b2e.jpe?w=840" alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-364" />[/code]

   You'll notice that the extension on the image file is only "jpe" instead of "jpeg". When I look at the source in the backend editor, and when I look at the generated source using Monotone, it has the full "jpeg."

   Is duotone accidentally stripping file extensions down to only three letters?

   The blog I need help with is visualdash.wordpress.com.

2. thesacredpath
   Staff
   Dec 26, 2009, 5:17 PM

   It shouldn't be changing the extension at all as long as it is a legal extension, and the extension should be .jpg (lowercase with no "e". .jpeg is not a legal file extension.

3. boxturtleme
   Member
   Dec 27, 2009, 12:40 AM

   .jpeg is a legal extension. Check here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jpeg. Many file extensions have only three letters (Windows convention from of old), but not all. Both .jpg and .jpeg are legal.

   What's happening here is that I take a photo with my iPhone and upload it using the WordPress 2 iPhone application. It gives it a filename that ends in .jpeg. (Incidentally, if I email the photos to myself they come through as photo.jpg, so the WordPress iPhone app creators themselves must be choosing the four letter extension.)

   In the backend I have this code:

   <img src="http://visualdash.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/l_1600_1200_680482fc-887e-4f80-903f-852ed19d08bf.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="225" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-364" />

   With the Monotone theme activated, I get this:

   <img src="http://visualdash.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/l_1600_1200_680482fc-887e-4f80-903f-852ed19d08bf.jpeg?w=840" alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-364" />

   With Duotone:

   <img src="http://visualdash.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/l_1600_1200_680482fc-887e-4f80-903f-852ed19d08bf.jpe?w=840g" alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-364" />

   Clearly, Duotone is somehow dropping off the "g" at the end of the filename. It may be trying to grab the last three letters of the filename for the purpose of processing the image (so it can set the theme colors to match) and for some reason this ends up chopping off any other letters. Who knows.

   Anyhow, clearly something isn't working correctly.

4. raincoaster
   Member
   Dec 27, 2009, 1:17 AM

   Yes, that'll have to be fixed. As will the centering issue (photos used to be centered and now they're left-aligned. We'll have to make a thread (or nominate one) for bug reports on Duotone.

5. thesacredpath
   Staff
   Dec 27, 2009, 3:14 AM

   You know, as far as my experience, WP has always chocked on 4-letter extensions. If Monotone accepted 4-letter extensions, that was probably a mistake since Linux, what virtually the entire web runs on, doesn't like 4-letter extensions (except for .html). Windows server will accept 4-letter extensions, but who in the world would use Windows web servers?

6. thesacredpath
   Staff
   Dec 27, 2009, 3:17 AM

   http://www.file-extensions.org/filetype/extension/name/internet-related-files

7. phoxis
   Member
   Dec 27, 2009, 6:37 AM

   shouldn't it determine the file format by the magic number? instead of extensions?

8. raincoaster
   Member
   Dec 27, 2009, 7:00 AM

   No, it's never done that. You can test it by changing a JPG's name to whatever.bmp and trying to upload it; it won't go.

   In this particular case, it looks like either Duotone will have to be fixed (which it will be; all themes need tuneups at first) or the WordPress 2 iPhone application needs fixing, so it doesn't convert files to Jpeg.

9. 1tess
   Moderator
   Dec 27, 2009, 7:09 AM

   The centering issue must also be addressed. On my test blog, some pictures centered, some did not. And pasting code from one post to another did not seem to make sense re what happened…

   Could be an interesting theme though.

10. boxturtleme
    Member
    Dec 28, 2009, 1:52 AM

    I think it's actually the other way around. Historically, it didn't matter for Linux/Unix whether you even had an extension. The FAT filesystem on Windows, however, had the 8.3 convention, which limited you to three letters.

    As the iPhone runs on Unix, it figures that they wouldn't care between jpeg and jpg; both are perfectly valid. It's Duotone that needs to be fixed. We all wish you could test on the magic number, but it's not really done.

    I'll be switching to Duotone as soon as they fix this.

11. christopherokc
    Member
    Dec 28, 2009, 3:56 AM

    I'm getting an error on a fresh install of wordpress 2.9 and fresh install of Duotone theme.

    Warning: Missing argument 1 for is_vertical(), called in /var/www/wp/wp-content/themes/duotone/functions.php on line 18 and defined in/var/www/wp/wp-content/themes/duotone/inc/duotonelibrary.php on line 295

    None of my photos are showing up, just that error.

12. timethief
    Member
    Dec 28, 2009, 4:21 AM

    @christopherokc
    You are in the wrong forum. We cannot help you here at wordpress.COM. We run on different software. Here's the link to the correct forum for those who are self hosting wordpress http://wordpress.ORG/support

13. noel
    Member
    Dec 28, 2009, 9:18 PM

    @boxturtleme and everyone,

    the .jpeg extension problem was a bug. it's now fixed.

    @christopherokc the is_vertical problem is fixed. But, yes, the .org forums will get results much quicker.

    The new version is deployed on .com and will be available on .org momentarily.

14. timethief
    Member
    Dec 28, 2009, 9:25 PM

    New themes always need debugging. Thanks Noel. :)

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