NextCellent and Gutenberg

I raised this problem about 7 months ago, along with concerns about PHP 7.2 bugs and others have also report various bugs that need fixing.

Sadly the author(s) have gone completely silent since the last update roughly a year ago. As such I am making plans to transition back to NextGen Gallery, which is something I don’t want to do but what choice is there if we have no support of any kind?

Alternatively I believe NextCellent will work with the WP Classic Editor plugin still (I tested this on a beta sometime ago) but that’s not much good if you intend to use Gutenberg as the now standard approach.

Hi there
Issues about PHP 7.2 were solved in previous versions as 1.9.32

I hope Frank is referring to https://plugincompat.danielbachhuber.com/
something I wasn’t aware. I’ll take a look.

A quick PHP7.2 test of NextCellent highlights a fair few possible problems for the future. Some can be ignored but most may need some code tweaks to fix.

FILE: /*******/wp-content/plugins/nextcellent-gallery-nextgen-legacy/admin/class-ngg-album-manager.php
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FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 1 LINE
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101 | WARNING | The “result” parameter for function parse_str() is missing. Passing this parameter is no longer optional. The optional nature of the parameter is deprecated since PHP 7.2
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FILE: /*******/wp-content/plugins/nextcellent-gallery-nextgen-legacy/admin/functions.php
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FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 1 LINE
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1245 | WARNING | INI directive ‘safe_mode_gid’ is deprecated since PHP 5.3 and removed since PHP 5.4
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FILE: /*******/wp-content/plugins/nextcellent-gallery-nextgen-legacy/lib/imagemagick.inc.php
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FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 1 LINE
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103 | WARNING | Use of deprecated PHP4 style class constructor is not supported since PHP 7.
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FILE: /*******/wp-content/plugins/nextcellent-gallery-nextgen-legacy/lib/meta.php
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FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 4 WARNINGS AFFECTING 4 LINES
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99 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
185 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
260 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
402 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
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FILE: /*******/wp-content/plugins/nextcellent-gallery-nextgen-legacy/lib/ngg-db.php
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FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 3 WARNINGS AFFECTING 3 LINES
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910 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
970 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
1018 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
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FILE: /*******/wp-content/plugins/nextcellent-gallery-nextgen-legacy/lib/swfobject.php
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FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 1 LINE
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85 | WARNING | Use of deprecated PHP4 style class constructor is not supported since PHP 7.
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FILE: /*******/wp-content/plugins/nextcellent-gallery-nextgen-legacy/widgets/class-ngg-gallery-widget.php
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FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 1 LINE
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252 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
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FILE: /*******/wp-content/plugins/nextcellent-gallery-nextgen-legacy/widgets/class-ngg-media-rss-widget.php
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FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 1 LINE
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133 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
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FILE: /*******/wp-content/plugins/nextcellent-gallery-nextgen-legacy/widgets/class-ngg-slideshow-widget.php
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FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 1 LINE
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175 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
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FILE: /*******/wp-content/plugins/nextcellent-gallery-nextgen-legacy/nggallery.php
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FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 12 WARNINGS AFFECTING 12 LINES
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147 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
177 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
228 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
262 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
328 | WARNING | INI directive ‘safe_mode’ is deprecated since PHP 5.3 and removed since PHP 5.4
330 | WARNING | INI directive ‘safe_mode’ is deprecated since PHP 5.3 and removed since PHP 5.4
331 | WARNING | INI directive ‘safe_mode’ is deprecated since PHP 5.3 and removed since PHP 5.4
333 | WARNING | INI directive ‘safe_mode’ is deprecated since PHP 5.3 and removed since PHP 5.4
710 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
734 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
738 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
803 | WARNING | Function create_function() is deprecated since PHP 7.2; Use an anonymous function instead
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Thanks ispreview for bringing this issue(s).
What tools do you use to check this?
Thanks again.

Via the PHP Compatibility Checker Plugin by WP Engine.

Thanks I’ll be reviewing a new version fixing those problems and compatibility with Guten berg also.
Thanks for your help.

Excellent to hear!