Testers needed for Lazyest Gallery 0.16.0

Posted by on Jan 26, 2010 in Beta, Lazyest Gallery and tagged , , , , , , , , ,
58 Comments

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

  1. Lara
    3 February 2010

    fantastic job, Marcel. Just installed beta8 and Thickbox is now showing full size images, great! Only issue: there are no “previous/next” or “close” links in Thickbox! I also can’t see anymore the animated gif indicating that the image is being loaded. I guess this is not so difficult to fix? Thank you!

    • Lara
      3 February 2010

      if I disable permalinks for the gallery I do get the animated gif and the close button. Just “previous/next” navigation links missing now!

      • Lazyest Developer
        3 February 2010

        :-) it was another tiny bug. please download beta9

        • Lara
          3 February 2010

          oops, on beta9 i’m not getting any Thickbox at all, ‘on click’ opens the ‘slide’ size version of the image in a normal window…, we want full size images in thickbox! we’re getting there :)
          thanks, guys, you’re the best!

        • Marcel
          4 February 2010

          oops :-) 10 is the number now

          • Lara
            4 February 2010

            hey Marcel, thanks. It’s opening the full size image on click now, but not in Thickbox :) sorry about that! can you fix that? bedankt!

          • marcel
            4 February 2010

            ?? I’ve sent you an e-mail

          • Lara
            5 February 2010

            you think beta11 is coming up soon? :p
            Marcel, on the stable version everything was working fine with Thickbox, navigation links, close button and full size images, can’t you apply the same code for beta10 where the on click function is concerned? just wondering.. anyway, thanks a lot for your help so far!

          • Marcel
            5 February 2010

            the onclick function should work now
            did you check your settings?
            http://test.brimosoft.nl/my-gallery/Graduatie/

          • Lara
            5 February 2010

            Marcel, I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, I hope you can help me by email! thanks!

  2. Hein
    1 February 2010

    Weird. Deinstalled the plugin completely. Upload the unzipped beta7 and activated it. Took ages to complete activating and then gave a message that it could not load lg-gallery when i tried to have lg write the tag onto the correct page. Same errors when opening the page to edit manually. The old 0.15 works flawlessly still.

    • Lara
      2 February 2010

      Hein, were you trying to load lg-gallery in a private page? you can add the code manually and run the gallery in a private page, but you can’t have it listed in the ‘Your Gallery Page’ option on Settings. Don’t know if that was your case.

      • Hein
        2 February 2010

        I added that code onto the picture page manually when using 0.15 and all pages are public. But 0.16 does not see the code present on the page nor does it add it when selected to do so.

        • marcel
          2 February 2010

          it’s a bug in the admin screen for 0.16.0 I’ll fix to asap

          • Hein
            2 February 2010

            Love the dedication you show for this excellent plugin!

  3. Lara
    1 February 2010

    I just upgraded to version 0.16.O and Thickbox is not resizing the full sized image (to fit in the browser screen) but is using the thumbnail from the slide view, which is rather small. And navigation links (previous / next) are also not working on Thickbox. Anyone else having these problems? HELP! All the rest looks all right.

    • Marcel
      1 February 2010

      Which thickbox plugin are you using? I’ll try to find the best settinbgs for you.

      • Lara
        1 February 2010

        Marcel, I’m using this: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/thickbox/

        but if it’s easier you can point me to a different plugin that will be compatible with version 0.16.0 and I’ll just use it! thanks!

      • Lara
        2 February 2010

        any ideas, Marcel? I tried everything already, Thickbox is definitely not pulling the full size original image, it’s loading thumbnails instead, it’s a bit frustrating. There’s also no navigation options within Thickbox slide window once it’s loaded. It was working fine with the previous LG version. Could it be some PHP bug? In my case is the only thing not working properly in version 0.16.0, the rest seems to work really well and images from subfolders as random icons are just great. Thanks!

      • Lara
        2 February 2010

        it’s a path problem, I guess. On slide view, LG is telling Thickbox to open images from the /slides folder on click and not the full image from the root folder. Can this be fixed? I tested it with Lightbox and I’m getting exactly the same problem. I have no idea where to go to change this path. I cannot launch my new website before having this fixed :-)

        • marcel
          2 February 2010

          please be aware that LG 0.16.0 is still in beta. Not everythings is working like it should.
          I have to change some code to pull out the full size image.
          A new beta will be available later this week.

          • Lara
            2 February 2010

            all right, Marcel, thanks! i’ll be looking forward to the new version later this week. I just wish there would be a quick fix for just this path/thickbox issue… I know, I’m a bit impatient :)

        • marcel
          2 February 2010

          Please try beta8

  4. marcel
    29 January 2010

    The widget admin page crashes on a deprecated function :-(

  5. marcel
    28 January 2010

    another bug: LG cannot find comment on paged comments

  6. Karen
    28 January 2010

    I know this is going to sound weird, but I am looking for a gallery plugin that will generate the pages using the images I have in folders, but I would like it to display the original images rather than create a thumbnail of it. The images I need to display are small and often animated so when it created the thumbnails they aren’t animated. Is this something that your plugin can do?

    • Marcel
      28 January 2010

      not yet, sorry

      • Karen
        29 January 2010

        OK.. thanks.

  7. Hein
    27 January 2010

    Downloaded beta4. Uninstalled beta3. Uploaded the zip through wp plugin page. Installed ok. Went to LG settings page. Had LG insert the short code. Apparently it worked. Wanted to check the picture page itself to check if the shortcode was indeed added. Got the same message as before.

    • developer
      27 January 2010

      strange….
      vreemd, welke andere plugins werkt u mee?

      • Hein
        28 January 2010

        Custom Meta
        Ozh Dropdown admin menu
        Ozh better plugin page
        my page order
        page links to
        Picbox
        Secure wordpress
        SEO tag cloud
        wp super cache
        wp widget cache

        I’ll give 5 a try ;)

    • Lazyest Developer
      28 January 2010

      plz try beta5

      • Hein
        28 January 2010

        No good. Deactived and removed the beta4. Uploaded and unzipped beta5. Activated plugin. Wanted to open the page named fotoalbum and it gave the error message again.

        I am running this on a Synology DS109 NAS. Maybe the setup pf php+apache on such a device is causing this?

        • marcel
          29 January 2010

          it’s stuck on the rewrite part. but I can’t reproduce an error like this.

  8. Lazyest Developer
    27 January 2010

    Another bug: duplicate images in the Random image widget. (working on it) ;-)

  9. Hein
    26 January 2010

    Downloaded zip. Unzipped it. Uploaded the folder to plugins folder of wordpress. Activated plugin. And then when i go to either the settings page or back to the frontpage 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

    • Lazyest Developer
      26 January 2010

      Hm, can’t reproduce that one. Could be the fact that LG uses pretty permalinks by default. When the gallery page has not been set, WP cannot parse the permalink.

      • Hein
        27 January 2010

        To be more precise. The gallery page was set with the required tag so LG knows where to look. I’ll await a new beta.

        • developer
          27 January 2010

          beta4 is available

  10. BOS judo
    26 January 2010

    I found a bug: cropped images come out as black squares.