Testers needed for Lazyest Gallery 0.16.0

Posted by on Jan 26, 2010 in Beta, Lazyest Gallery and tagged , , , , , , , , ,
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Lazyest Gallery 0.1.6.0 is almost finished. It took a while because the entire plugin is encoded again. This version includes the long awaited pretty permalinks for the gallery. Folders and photos will now appear as subpages of the gallery. Please note that it is not possible to use WordPress subpages of the gallery page.


This version also includes the ability to show:

  • random images from subfolders;
  • the number of images in subfolders;
  • exif data in improved layout
  • underscores converted to spaces in captions
  • use another word for 'photos' in the gallery ( e.g. you want to show 'wallpapers' )
  • on click → nothing for thumbnails
  • option to show or hide the "Powered by Lazyest Gallery" credits
  • a new menu item in WordPress admin. The File Manager is no longer part of the Media menu.
  • compatible with WP Super Cache when you use pretty permalinks for the gallery

We could use some help in testing this version. Please download the latest beta version at  the WordPress download site and describe your experiences below.

Please check my gallery to see how the pretty permalinks work out http://brimosoft.nl/gallery/

UPDATE:
Beta7 is out. I feel it's stable enough to run on this site. If you re-install this beta, please delete the plugin first on the plugin admin page to ensure that the options be removed from the database.

UPDATE:
Beta8 is out. Images show correctly now in thickbox and lightbox. The are some minor problems on the comment editing page, which I hope to solve soon. The Admin page javascripts need some rework too. And I haven't found an answer to the error Hein describes because I cannot make that error appear on my servers.

UPDATE:
Beta11 (!) is out. I have fixed the problems with inserting the shortcode in the Admin page. The slide view doesn't show subfolders anymore. The Lazyest Gallery Edit Comments page is functional again. Widgets have a proper link to the gallery. How about the Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in /volume1/web/mug/wp-includes/classes.php on line 211 Hein? I have changed some points that could be causing this.

58 Comments

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    2 March 2010

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  3. Lara
    16 February 2010

    I’m delighted to report that after testing 4 or 5 different beta versions, Lazyest Gallery latest version 0.16.0-rc1 works beautifully on my website! It’s a very stable version and a serious release candidate :-) It’s packed full of amazing features, random images as folder icons, comments per folder and per image, thickbox integration, and the slideshow is very cool too! Marcel is a great guy, always very kind and patient, and he’s been offering excellent support to this amazing plugin! Thank You!
    Lara – a happy customer :-)

  4. Chris
    14 February 2010

    Another thing, the Folder Columns setting seems to be ignored. The folder colums use the same number set in the Thumbnail Columns.

    • Marcel
      14 February 2010

      Hi Chris,
      Thank you for testing the release candidate. You’ve spotted some errors I didn’t find earlier.

      • Chris
        15 February 2010

        Hey, sure, I really like the new features, the ability to display random thumbnail images within subfolders is a great feature. I don’t know what the div problem was but I don’t get it anymore. The pop-up window and Folder columns are the two bugs that are causing problems for me. I have reverted back to an older version for now, do you know when the next stable version will be released?
        Thanks, great job.

        • marcel
          16 February 2010

          please give me a few extra days to iron out the last wrinkles.

  5. Chris
    14 February 2010

    Another problem I’ve found is that for some reason the “Show image in pop-up window” function no longer works. It genrates a popup with a page cannot be found. However, when I change it to “Show full size image” is shows the image fine, so my settings must be okay.
    What could be causing this?.
    Thanks

  6. Chris
    14 February 2010

    What I have found is in this part of the code:

    <a href="”>text_domain); ?>

    If you remove that last closing div tag then it looks fine with the folders view, but it then lacks the closing div in the thumbnails/image views.

    Basically there is an extra div tag for the folders view which interfears with the layout.
    Thanks

  7. Chris
    14 February 2010

    I’ve been playing with lazyest-gallery.0.16.0-rc1, functionally it seems to be working fine, but I did find an issue in the layout frontend.php.
    It’s weird but it seems as if there maybe an extra closing div tag in there somewhere. On my gallery page one of my main layout div’s is closed before it can hold the content, which messes up the layout. This only happens in the folders view. Once you view thumbnails or images everything appears fine. Which closing div tag could be causing this?
    Thanks

  8. Hein
    4 February 2010

    Same procedure as before. Complete removed beta8. Uploaded and installed beta10. Can not add code to page automaticly or manually. Get this error when i want to edit a page to add the code manually. When letting LG do it i get the message that it can not load lazyest gallery.

    Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in /volume1/web/mug/wp-includes/classes.php on line 210

    Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in /volume1/web/mug/wp-includes/classes.php on line 211

    • marcel
      4 February 2010

      I haven’t had the time to dig into the problems you describe. On that point, basically nothing has changed since Beta7

  9. Hein
    4 February 2010

    Deactivated beta8. Removed beta8. Uploaded beta10. Activated beta10. Took ages. Stil LG wil not add the code to a page i select. When i go to add the code manually i get this:

    Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in /volume1/web/mug/wp-includes/classes.php on line 210

    Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in /volume1/web/mug/wp-includes/classes.php on line 211

    I wish i had some coding genes but i don’t :( Hope you can solve this riddle.

    • marcel
      4 February 2010

      Ik stuur je binnenkort een e-mail met een versie met debug info.

      • Hein
        9 February 2010

        Dat is prima. Heb net beta 11 eens geinstalleerd. Krijg nog steeds de inmiddels bekende foutmelding maar het fotoalbum ‘werkt’ wel. Niet optimaal dus er zit ergens nog wat dwars. 0.15 is nu nog het snelste.