0.16.0 is ready!

The stable version 0.16.0 is ready for download.
Please read my previous post about the new features in this release.

updates:

  • Shawna reported a bug in the Settings screen. That has been fixed in 0.16.0.1
  • Alireza Fattahi reported a bug in folder pagination. That has been fixed in 0.16.0.2
  • The error of function __contruct() not found has been fixed in 0.16.0.3
  • If the slideshow on your site is no longer working, please read my post Dear Theme Developers and check the file footer.php in your theme.
  • The problem with the lg_image shortcode has been solved in version 0.16.0.4
  • version 0.16.0.5 is PHP4 compatible

I'll update the user guide as soon as possible.

69 Comments

  1. Peter
    10 March 2010

    Hi Marcel,

    Not sure if its just me, but my LG just lost all contact with the Lightbox plugin after upgrade. Might be 2 versions back, but not sure.

    I use latest Lightbox 2.9.2, and newest LG. tried disabling Lightbox options in LG and reactivate to see if that worked, but instead LG suddenly says no Lightbox plugin is detected. Its the same as before and nothing is changed.

    Could it be that LG has a bug detecting and utilizing Lightbox?

    • Peter
      10 March 2010

      Btw, checked footer/header stuff and all, so thats not why. I use Mistylook theme 3.5 (older version, but newer ones mess my content up in other ways).

    • Lazyest Developer
      10 March 2010

      Hi Peter,
      When I open your site, I get some javascript errors in non-lazyest-gallery scripts. Could be conflicting scripts somewhere.
      Error: element.dispatchEvent is not a function
      File: http://www.joecool.dk/blog/wp-includes/js/prototype.js?ver=1.6
      Line: 39361
      Error: element.style is undefined
      File: http://www.joecool.dk/blog/wp-content/plugins/lightbox-2/lightbox-resize.js?ver=1.8
      Linel: 33

      • Peter
        10 March 2010

        Wow lost me completely. Just fiddled with the site but got no errors. Could you have been visiting at a bad time? Just reactivated/activated LGallery to see if that helped, so if might be bad timing?

        I never saw such errors and tbh I wouldn’t know what to do with the error log you posted :/

        • Lazyest Developer
          10 March 2010

          maybe you could try another lightbox plugin e.g jquery lightbox or shadowbox with jquery and no atomation)

          • Peter
            11 March 2010

            Thanks for the answer. Installing Shadowbox JS worked like a charm! :-)

          • Peter
            11 March 2010

            Worked like a charm. Shadowbox JS seemed to do the trick. thanks for info.

      • Peter
        10 March 2010

        Just found my whole site was down (host side issue). Up again now afaik.

  2. Shawna
    10 March 2010

    Hi Marcel- my slideshow is now working. I decided to try it again and all was fine. i did make a few cahnges prior though- as you told me to in my qustion above I activated the slideshow option. I also make sinple changes in frontend.php- I removed the folder icon and the code that made the number of images in a folder show up.

    Maybe something I did can help you figure out why the slideshow feature isn’t working for some other ppl as well.

    Thank you :)

  3. FightSarcoma
    9 March 2010

    With the latest release the slide show is no longer working on my site. It simply hangs on “loading…”.

    • Marcel
      9 March 2010

      this is a known problem for which no solution has been found yet

      • FightSarcoma
        9 March 2010

        grrr well the slide show was for me the most important feature. Any suggestions for a replacement that will randomize and allow the lightbox functionality?

  4. Shawna
    9 March 2010

    Hi Marcel- I would like full size images to be shown when ppl click on thumbnails and I want them to be shown on a page like this: http://brownsista.com/images/Alicia%20Keys/Alicia-Keys-Element-of-Freedom-Tour002.jpg/

    If I use the option to show a full size image when the thumb is clicked on it will take ppl to the pic on a plain white page and I don’t want that.

    Using the regular upload feature on WP my iamges how up full size when thumbs are clicked on- example below.

    http://brownsista.com/rihannas-robot-love/

    Click the thumb and it leads to my full size images (600pixels wide).

    Thank you :)

    • marcel
      10 March 2010

      just make the slides size large enough to accommodate your full size images and select slide view.

      • Shawna
        10 March 2010

        That did the trick… thank you :D

  5. Teri
    7 March 2010

    Some problems I’ve noticed:

    * The lg_image code in posts used to make thumbnails that worked with lightbox… now the thumbnail links change the page to the full sized image.

    * When I switched to permalinks, all comments went missing. They are missing both when I access the pages through the new permalink and the old link. They are still in the database.

    * The folder description should allow HTML, so I can link to related pages.

    • Teri
      7 March 2010

      Actually, to complicate things it looks like some pages are displaying comments, and others aren’t. All the comments are still in the database.

      • Teri
        10 March 2010

        I fixed the lg_image shortcode lightbox issue by editing line 101 of image.php to:
        return array( 'href' => $lg_gallery->address . lg_nice_link( $this->folder->curdir . $this->image ) , 'class' => '', 'rel' => 'lightbox['.$this->folder->curdir.']', 'title' => $this->title(), 'id' => str_replace( ' ', '_', $this->image ) );
        ‘rel’ HAD been just ‘lazyest’, which is of course why lightbox links weren’t working.

        Obviously this only works if you are using lightbox, but it works for me :)

        • marcel
          10 March 2010

          Hi Teri,
          Thanks for the thinking.
          The solution that works for all is to insert
          $img_link = $thumb->on_click( 'widget' );
          on line 320 in frontend.php
          I see if I have to fix some other bugs before I relase a new version with this fix.

  6. Shawna
    5 March 2010

    I get this error message in the lazyest gallery admin error: Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in /home/mysite/public_html/wp-content/plugins/lazyest-gallery/inc/admin.php on line 740

    None of the settings can be seen because of this error.

    • marcel
      6 March 2010

      I found a bug there. Please wait for 0.16.0.1

      • Shawna
        6 March 2010

        Thank you Marcel :)
        Something else I forgot to mention is the Slideshow widget- it no longer works for me in this new version either. It just keeps displaying the word “LOADING.”

        Btw, what plugin are you using here to Reply and Quote comments? I really like it.

        • Marcel
          6 March 2010

          it’s not a plugin, it’s part of the theme. BTW, I wouldn’t recommend it it doesn’t work when you get trackbacks.

        • Marcel
          6 March 2010

          could you share the link for your site so I can check why the slideshow no longer works?

          • Shawna
            6 March 2010

            I actually temporarily removed the gallery from my site because of this issue- sorry. The previous version before this one all worked perfectly. I removed that one too last night because of slowness issues with my server. I still however wanted to re-install the updated gallery once I got these issues fixed.

            Here is my link anyway: http://brownsista.com

          • Shawna
            6 March 2010

            I just re-installed the gallery and the error message is gone. The widget now is the only issue. If you look in the sidebard at the botton you will see under Photo Gallery it say Loading. Here is a screenshot too: http://yfrog.com/5bloadingej

          • marcel
            7 March 2010

            please read my post ‘Dear Theme Developers’ and check your footer.php

  7. Hein
    4 March 2010

    I have PicBox installed (lightbox variant) and with 0.15 this looped thru the whole folder and not just the page you were on at that moment. With 0.16 it does only the page. Picbox has not been changed in the way it handles pictures. Does 0.16 serve the pictures any different from 0.15?

  8. Hein
    4 March 2010

    When i choose folder icon instead of none or random and i place a picture in the folder with the same name as the folder it does not use the picture as the folder icon. It did do so in 0.15

    Does 0.16 handle this differently? Should i rename a picture to Folder.jpg?

    • Lazyest Developer
      4 March 2010

      0.16.0 does not handle this differently.
      may be a bug

      • Hein
        4 March 2010

        Might be. I tested it on my testbed and it comes with the same result. No folder icon is displayed and when i enter the album it displays the two underlying albums and the one 1 picture with the same name as the folder. Example: http://rondvierkant.nl/mug/fotoalbum/01_Muppet/

    • Marcel
      5 March 2010

      plz download again.

  9. Hein
    3 March 2010

    New thumbnails are not added when you click on the Go button in the admin panel to create thumbnails when they are missing. It does work when a visitors visits the album and no thumbnails are present. Then it wil create thumbs for the page the user is at.

    Is this normal behaviour? Or is this due to the large amount of pics in my collection?

    • Lazyest Developer
      4 March 2010

      when you have many images, you have to wait (very) long until all thumbnails have created.

      • Hein
        4 March 2010

        I wait until it completes the run and says it has created the thumbs. But when i check the actuel thumbs folder in each picture folder they are either empty or contain only those thumbs which were created when a user visited the album.

  10. Hein
    3 March 2010

    So far so good. Installed the 0.16.0 on my test site and it is working without the errors and slow loading times. I’ll install it on my main site as wel and let you know what it does.

    • Hein
      3 March 2010

      Installation was good. It recognised the shortcode on the page. Altered some settings and it saved without problem.

      Logged out and clicked on the fotoalbum page and it is loading and loading etc.. might this have something to do with the 7000+ pictures in the lg-gallery folder?

      On the test site it worked perfect but there are only 45 pics in that site.

      • Marcel
        3 March 2010

        could be that it has to do with that many pictures. did you change the height/width of the images?

        • Hein
          3 March 2010

          Nope. The pictures are not changed in between installing the newer version.

          I have it now set to load a random image as a folder icon. And once WP-SuperCache has cached the pages it does load a bit quicker.

          I think that it is more likely to be my adsl line which might slow things down.

          Otherwise it run smoothly :) Thanks!