[Plugin: Shadowbox JS] Stopped Working Since Upgrade to 3.03

@nimo32:

The only thing that is cached is the actual javascript file (shadowbox.js). The reason you see multiple files is that a file is generated each time you save your settings to reflect the settings you have saved.

As for the file being created with the wrong permissions, that is something I am adding to the next release. I didn’t anticipate the poor hosting configurations that people are using.

Sivel,

Thanks for your response.

I didn’t anticipate the poor hosting configurations that people are using.

So my hosting provider is to blame that a new file is created with 660 permission? I did not know that.

The only thing that is cached is the actual javascript file (shadowbox.js). The reason you see multiple files is that a file is generated each time you save your settings to reflect the settings you have saved.

When I view the source of a page, there is a link to the oldest created cached file…. why not a link to the newest created file?

@nimo32:

For the permissions thing, your hosting provider has specified what the default file permissions will be for files created by PHP, and apparently these file permissions do not allow it to be read by the web server.

As for the question about caching, it is not done based on date, it is done based on configuration. So if the original cache file, was for default settings, you then changed some settings, and then switched back to default, the cache would not be recreated it would just use the cache file that was originally created.

Hi Sivel,

I didn’t clock that you would need to interrogate my site’s settings, apologies – my bad.

The reason I reverted was because I was away for a few days and didn’t want to leave it in a state where I couldn’t tinker around with it.

Do you want me to go back and update now and see what happens? Looks like there has been a flurry of activity since my original post. Let me know – and also let me know if there is something I need to modify after the update… Cheers.

@daz Lunn: Have you updated to the most recent version yet? If not do so. After updating visit Settings->Shadowbox JS and reset the settings to defaults and reconfigure as needed. If it does not work after doing so, please let me know here. I will try and take a look as quickly as possible. I monitor the RSS feed for this forum, and google reader is a little slow to pick it up, but I should see it relatively soon.

@sivel: Update completed, looks good to go now, appears to work on all media. Many thanks.

I updated to 3.0.3.2 and when vimeo shadowboxes come up it says “this video is unavailable”

https://asdffilms.com/blog/?p=299

Hello all,

I, like most people in here, have upgraded to the latest version of shadow box – 3.0.3.2

And now it’s stopped working.

I’ve tried disabling stuff, resetting the plugin to defaults etc.

The site I had it on is:

https://www.discopixels.com

And I also had a page where I used javascript to call shadowbox to make a video pop up in shadowbox, here:

https://www.discopixels.com/canvas-builder

Now none of it works but it was working perfectly before the upgrade.

Any help would be gr8.

Thanks

@savavoom:

Please try the development version:

https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/shadowbox-js.zip

Steps to upgrade manually:

1) Deactivate the Shadowbox JS plugin
2) Delete the previous shadowbox-js folder from the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
3) Upload the new shadowbox-js folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
4) Activate the Shadowbox JS plugin

Still doesn’t work ??

This is the site:

https://www.discopixels.com

I’ve installed the development version as you suggested.

Thanks
Robbie

@savavoom I have just updated the development version to add a new option.

Upgrade following the steps described previously. Once you have upgraded visit Settings->Shadowbox JS and change “Use Cached shadowbox.js” to false and click “Save Changes”.

This should solve your problems.

Dear Sivel,
Thanks in advance for the great plugin and for the help you have been providing people here in this post.

I’m having the same problem as the others. The videos will only open on fullscreen, at youtube’s website.

I have already read everything, tried on a fresh instalation of wordpress with the default theme and with no plugins, and it worked.
Tried on my theme, removing all other plugins, and it didn’t work.

So I believe the problem is in my theme.
Do you have an idea on where these theme incompatibilities are often found?

I believe the interaction between your plugin and Youtube/Vimeo simplegallery is perfect for what I was planning to do..
Would love to be able to make it work!

If, and when, you have the time, I wouldn’t bother if you could have a look at: https://www.gabriel-leveau.com/videos and see if you find out what could be the problem. And I’ll continue the work from my side.

Thanks in advance!

@gabaozin,

Your problem seems to be a larger issue with your site. Open your site and then view source, scroll all of the way to the bottom. Your content is being cut off. There are missing items that should be output by shadowbox. For one thing, I see no </body> or </html> tags. You need to check your themes footer.php and fix it. On top of that make sure you have <?php wp_footer(); ?> directlry before the </body> tag as well.

Once you fix your theme, it should start working.

Just this afternoon I updated my WordPress to version 3.0.3 and suddenly my Shadowbox plugin stopped working. Any blog image I clicked on came up in a blank screen.

I went to the second-to-last option in the Shadowbox settings and changed “reset to default” from false to true, and now the plugin works fine.

Not sure if that helps anyone, but it worked for me – I wanted to try the simplest fix first.