Image Links Disabled After WP 3.5 Upgrade

Hi Lynn
Have you upgraded ngg too? If you upgrade ngg it will overwrite the template changes you made to get the links working.

Hi Shauno –
No, I hadn’t upgraded NGG until the problem occurred… only then did I upgrade to see if that was the problem. I did in the meantime find a workaround using the “alt” field, but the custom field no longer works.
Thanks for your speedy reply!
Lynn

Hmm, strange. It has been tested with 3.5. I am on holiday at the moment, so I don’t have my dev machine to check with. I will be back this weekend and I will see if we can work out the problem.

Thanks so much, Shauno…. enjoy your holiday!

Hi again Lynn

I’m finally back home in front of my dev machine, so let’s see if we can figure out what’s happening with your custom fields. Firstly, just be sure everything is up to date, although it sounds like it is (WP 3.5, NGG 1.9.10, NGGCF 1.2.2).

Do the custom fields still show up fine in the backend when managing a gallery? And then can you change and save them successfully?
If all that works fine, then what [shortcode] are you using to display the gallery in the page/post? Once I know that, we can start debugging the template.

Hi again, Shauno –

Thanks so much for getting back to me… yes, everything is updated. The custom fields still show up under “Manage Gallery”, but do not function as they used to before the upgrade.

Here is the shortcode I was using: [nggallery id=17 template=caption]
In order to work around the problem, I am now using this: [nggallery id=17 template=caption template=link] which enables me to put the custom link in the Alt text field.

I really appreciate your follow-through on this!

Lynn

When you add the template=caption to the shortcode, it means that NGG will use the gallery-caption.php template in the nextgen-gallery/views/ directory. Adding 2 instances of template= might behave funny. I’m not sure which template it will use.
Let’s try debug the caption template to start with.

So, change the shortcode back to [nggallery id=17 template=caption]. Now, what does the code around the link in gallery-caption.php template look like? Can you post the whole <a> tag here (don’t forget to put it in code tags so it formats for the forum).

If I’m jumping ahead or going too fast let me know, I’m not sure what level WP user you are ??

Is this what you need? (I’m fairly proficient in WP – as long as I know where to look for something!) ??

imageURL ?>” title=”<?php echo $image->description ?>” <?php echo $image->thumbcode ?> >
<?php if ( !$image->hidden ) { ?>
<img title=”<?php echo $image->alttext ?>” alt=”<?php echo $image->alttext ?>” src=”<?php echo $image->thumbnailURL ?>” <?php echo $image->size ?> />
<?php } ?>

You need to put the code in backticks so it formats for the forum. You can click the "code" button above to open and close the backticks

imageURL ?>" title="<?php echo $image->description ?>" <?php echo $image->thumbcode ?> >
<?php if ( !$image->hidden ) { ?>
<img title="<?php echo $image->alttext ?>" alt="<?php echo $image->alttext ?>" src="<?php echo $image->thumbnailURL ?>" <?php echo $image->size ?> />
<?php } ?>

Sorry… was in too big a hurry last night….:-(

I still don’t see the start of the <a> tag nicely, or the closing </a>? Perhaps you can just copy and paste the entire contents of the file to Pastebin.

Hi Lynn
Did you get this figured out? I’m marking this thread as resolved for now. If you still need help please let me know.

Hi Shauno,
Unfortunately, no…. I’m still using the [template=caption template=link]shortcode. It works that way, and I haven’t had the time to probe further, other than what we’ve discussed here.

Thanks so much for following up!