diff --git a/contrib/frontends/django/nntpchan/nntpchan/settings.py b/contrib/frontends/django/nntpchan/nntpchan/settings.py
index 5678e48..0614256 100644
--- a/contrib/frontends/django/nntpchan/nntpchan/settings.py
+++ b/contrib/frontends/django/nntpchan/nntpchan/settings.py
@@ -127,3 +127,7 @@ ASSETS_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'assets')
 
 MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
 MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
+
+# for thumbnailing 
+CONVERT_PATH = '/usr/bin/convert'
+FFMPEG_PATH = '/usr/bin/ffmpeg'
diff --git a/contrib/frontends/django/nntpchan/nntpchan/thumbnail.py b/contrib/frontends/django/nntpchan/nntpchan/thumbnail.py
index dc0190b..e29bb9a 100644
--- a/contrib/frontends/django/nntpchan/nntpchan/thumbnail.py
+++ b/contrib/frontends/django/nntpchan/nntpchan/thumbnail.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
+from django.conf import settings
 import subprocess
 import os
-img_ext = ['png', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'gif', 'webp', 'ico']
-vid_ext = ['mp4', 'webm', 'm4v', 'ogv', 'avi']
-txt_ext = ['txt', 'pdf', 'ps']
+img_ext = ['png', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'gif', 'webp', 'ico', 'pdf', 'ps']
+vid_ext = ['mp4', 'webm', 'm4v', 'ogv', 'avi', 'txt']
 
 def generate(fname, tname, placeholder):
     """
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ def generate(fname, tname, placeholder):
     ext = fname.split('.')[-1]
     cmd = None
     if ext in img_ext:
-        cmd = ['/usr/bin/convert', '-thumbnail', '200', fname, tname]
-    elif ext in vid_ext or ext in txt_ext:
-        cmd = ['/usr/bin/ffmpeg', '-i', fname, '-vf', 'scale=300:200', '-vframes', '1', tname]
+        cmd = [settings.CONVERT_PATH, '-thumbnail', '200', fname, tname]
+    elif ext in vid_ext:
+        cmd = [settings.FFMPEG_PATH, '-i', fname, '-vf', 'scale=300:200', '-vframes', '1', tname]
 
     if cmd is None:
         os.link(placeholder, tname)