This is about to drive me nuts, because I'm absolutely certain this was working before.

I noticed a few days ago that the gallery view was no longer showing random thumbnails for my albums. I checked settings, and noticed that my thumbnail settings for each album were set to "most recent" rather than "randomly selected." Odd, but... okay.

So I chose "randomly selected" from the dropdown menu, clicked to save and... nothing. No change. I get the green success message, but the setting still reads "most recent" and the thumbnail shown is indeed the most recent.

Every other setting aside from "randomly selected" is accepted perfectly.

This happens across themes, and in any case I haven't changed themes since the problem started happening.

I thought maybe something had gone corrupt, so I tried a clean installation, to no avail. It still won't switch to random for me.

Any ideas?

Check your error logs. When I tried this it uncovered an error in the rating plugin. Still, the save did work. But maybe something else is failing for you.

Zero, nothing. Error log is literally empty. I even tried changing the setting and then checking the error log again... nothing.

I use absolutely no plugins, so there wouldn't be conflict there.

My site looks normal and works absolutely perfectly, aside from the fact that my random thumbnails have stopped working.

There's a lot of head-scratching going on.

Hi,
I am also having same problem here. What I have figured out is it happens to only first and last album not all.
Has anybody any idea?
Thanks.
Etchbee

I am having the same problem in all my albums (not only the first and last ones).

I have a site on the same server running on ver 1.2.9 without problems, but the ver 1.3 site will not allow me to choose the option "randomly selected"

I noticed some similar oddities. I went back to the main admin page, clicked the "reset all thumbs" button then clicked "set to random". It seems to have worked fine since then. Perhaps there's a default value somewhere that's overriding? But give the above a try and see if it fixes your stuff erb, etc.

@micheall Thank you That worked.

There is a correction for this in the nightly builds. Or you can reset the visual thumb option (not needed if you are selecting random thumbs.)