Remove Alt box on thumbnails and Start button in Lightbox

Set I questions:

1. You should see a magnifier glass as a cursor. I see it in Firefox.
What browser do you use?

2. I guess you mean lightbox, not slideshow? Clicking the thumbnail gives lightbox, so… Why wouldn’t you want to have a lightbox slideshow running?
If you mean the real slideshow, untick Table II-B1

3. Do you mean ‘Press f for fullscreen’ ? Press d for dismiss or hover over the text to remove it.

Set II questions

1. There is a bug in masonry style rows as you may have noticed. It will be partially fixed in the next version ( except for ms IE on responsive themes ).

2. No idea, i have hardly any experience with nextgen. I installed it, made a few ‘galleries’ and developed the import from nextgen.
Just try and see what happens…

Thank you very much for the reply!

1. I do see the magnifier glass, but what I mean by the little box is when I hover the magnifying glass / mouse cursor over the thumbnail (maybe wiggle it a little), a small box pops up. I’d love to get rid of that. I’m using Chrome and Safari, but just tested on Firefox and there it’s not visible. Strange.

2. Yes, I’m using lightbox, and want navigation at the bottom, but just don’t want the Start to be visible on the upper left. I’d like to have without any lightbox slideshow. Table II-B1 is unticked, and I’ve tried ticking and unticking again just to make sure.
2a. Speaking of navigation is it possible to change the style / size of the large navigation arrows (sorry for sneaking in one more support question ;-)).

3. Yes, you understand what I mean, but since you can’t press F or D on a phone, I wondered if it’s possible to not have that text for mobile devices?

Set II questions: Okay, understood. Thank you very much!

Unfortunately you are changing the page, so i can not test it on safari. I did test it on chrome and did not see the small boxes.

Update to 6.1.12 ( available no later than tomorrow ) and untick Table II-G18 and 19 to get rid of the start and legenda items on the lightbox display.

Thanks, yes, I’m trying to fix it and thought maybe the reason I was having so many problems was because of conflicts with other plugins. So I have reverted back to when I first installed WPPA a few days ago, with a clean update.

Here’s the main reason I did a clean revert of my WP installation: When I added some other plugins, I got the error message “Notice: Undefined variable: t in /home/puzzled/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-photo-album-plus/wppa-functions.php on line 1548” on the page linked above. Unfortunately, that message appears even now with the other plugins disabled. Do you have any suggestions?

The little alt box is gone now and I realize what it is, by the way: It’s that somehow I found and removed the “zoom in” alt text by the magnifying glass on thumbnail view. Today, I have no idea how I did that, but let’s not worry about it now. The bigger issue is the warning for undefined variable.

Great to know about the update tomorrow.

Thanks for the help so far!

The undefined t was a bug of mine. Fixed 6.1.12 you can read in the location where it happened that it is from wppa. You only saw it when WP_DEBUG is defined true.

Its released, you should get an update indicator on your dasboard.

Great, thanks for all the help! Now for some additional notes after I’ve had a while to check the updates.

1. Table II-G19 (Overlay show legenda): The overlay is gone as expected, but If F is pushed then it still goes in full screen (good). However, you can’t click outside the image box to get back to the lightbox gallery. ESC closes full screen, but you’re still stuck in a strange image view / situation and can’t get back to the lightbox. Also there is a strange clicking sound after you push F and use arrow keys to go forward / backward in the images.

Request: Table II-G19: Overlay to be removed for mobile devices, but kept for regular displays. Is that possible? (sounds kind of hard)

2. Table II-G91: Help text says “If you select —none— in Table I-G2 for magnifier size, the tooltop contains the photo name. The default for this setting is: yes: Checked”
This is where the empty box problem I mentioned before happens in Safari and Chrome (not Firefox) browsers. If the image has no name, an empty box is shown if you uncheck Table II-G91. Would be nice if there was no name for the image if no tooltip was shown at all with the magnifying glass.

I made a donation (thanks for all the support!) and would also like to offer help – if you want – to tidy up the help reference texts. Many refer to the wrong table or item, for example the help text mentioned in point 2 above. Either way, many thanks.

Hi again,

Regarding point 1 above: I noticed that you have to push escape twice in all browsers to back out. Maybe that’s the intention and I was just confused thinking one ESC would get me out of the full screen viewing. Also, the strange clicking sound is only in Safari, not in Chrome or Firefox, and not at all a big problem for me.

1. Thanx for your donation!

2. Esc to exit fullscreen ( but you do not want the legenda where it is mentioned ) and 2nd esc to leave lightbox, as it is also in lightbox-non-fullscreen mode.

3. No name -> no title="...". Will be considered.

4. Just tell me: Table XX-Ynn and what’s wrong would help me enormously.

5. If anybody could tell me how to ( in php ): if ( $is_mobile ) ... would make the programmers life much easier…

5. If anybody could tell me how to ( in php ): if ( $is_mobile ) … would make the programmers life much easier…

It looks i found this…

Great!

Fixed 6.1.14. See the changelog

You are amazing with support, thanks!

I confirm that the lightbox fullscreen overlay is gone for mobile.

Unfortunately, the empty tool tip for photos is still showing in Safari and Chrome (not Firefox). Or am I confused? Help in WPPA -> Settings -> Table II-G91 says “
If you select —none— in Table I-G2 for magnifier size, the tooltop contains the photo name.” but the changelog says “For browsers that display empty tooltip boxes: there are no longer empty title attributes generated.”

Maybe I’m messed up with terminology. It looks like all photos in an album get an attribute “photoname” which is the filename. I tried deleting “photoname” from one photo and still have the empty tooltip box on all browsers except Firefox.

I am pretty sure that i removed all empty title attributes, i can not reproduce your problem on a windows7 system. Maybe i overlooked an instance, so please show me a link to a page theat shows the problem, then i can see if there is still a ‘title=””‘ somewhere.

By the way, I don’t k*now if I should mark this as resolved or not, but it’s definitely on the way to being resolved.

From the subject line of the original post:
* Alt box (empty tooltip box) on thumbnails, not solved for Safari and Chrome
* Start button solved
* Mobile devices overlay solved (but now the navigation text and arrows are very large on phone … it’s fine on iPad)

One thing I’m curious about is, is it possible to use gestures on the phone, like when you expand an image with your finger or swipe to the next image in a lightbox? Not sure if the feature doesn’t exist or if I’m looking in the wrong places in settings.

I replied to my own post before I saw yours, sorry.

Here’s something interesting!
On all masonry-style thumbnails, the alt box is gone, and the issue is solved. I didn’t notice before because I was using the default setting. On the default setting in Table IV-C3, then I always see the empty box on Chrome and Safari. In addition, I always see the “Delete” and “Edit” link for admin, even though I have it unchecked in settings.

I can live with it as is, but just thought you’d like to know. It helps me to understand the strange behavior is only with default settings.