The New Gallery Widget

  • Has anyone else noticed that the new Gallery Widget, for WP 4.9, has issues with displaying image thumbnails correctly? My testing this morning has shown that the thumbnails are stretched and look terrible. If I resize the Firefox window to a smaller window the thumbnailed gallery changes and looks normal.

    Stretched gallery https://ibb.co/b1jMYR
    Gallery Settings https://ibb.co/eXsQtR

    I have tried different number of columns as well.
    Does this lower the usability of the widget? If the widget cant control the display of the image thumbnails and will distort the image why risk using it?

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    It looks like a theme issue. Can you show us a page with the problem?

    Thread Starter Richard Krone

    (@rkrone)

    Hi Andrew:

    Unfortunately it is on an Intranet that is not publicly accessible.

    When you suggest it is a theme issue what would cause this? The widget was placed in a container area that is 100% of the theme wide.

    I have other sites that I have yet to upgrade and test with different themes. I will test on those as well.

    When I change the column count from 2 columns to 9 columns the icons appear fine. I do not know if that is because the number of columns exceeds the number of thumbnails.

    Just to be sure I am adding this widget into full width footer.
    https://ibb.co/jtv0Sm

    There are 6 images of different sizes in the gallery.

    1 Column
    https://ibb.co/hpBw06

    3 Columns
    https://ibb.co/cuRktR

    6 Columns
    https://ibb.co/e2RJDR

    9 Columns
    https://ibb.co/fNzS7m

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Try deactivating all of your plugins to explore whether any could be responsible. If none are, keep all plugins deactivated and switch to the Twenty Seventeen theme to check whether it’s an issue with your theme.

    Thread Starter Richard Krone

    (@rkrone)

    Hi Andrew:

    I will be able to do this over Thanksgiving as this is a production site that is working fine otherwise.

    I just wanted to test out the new 4.9 features before one of the other content editors tried it out and complained to me. ??

    Is there a video, page, site dedicated to visually showing what to expect and how to use the new improvements?

    Thanks again,
    Richard

    Thread Starter Richard Krone

    (@rkrone)

    I just was sent this link from someone: https://www.wpbeginner.com/news/whats-new-in-wordpress-4-9/

    It appears to have a basic rundown of the changes with pictures.

    Any better sites would be appreciated.

    Thread Starter Richard Krone

    (@rkrone)

    I wonder if the fact that the widget is being placed in a widget footer area that is the full width of the screen rather than just a sidebar’s width has anything to do with the image distortion.

    I just spoke with someone else who can see the same issue with larger width widget areas.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    I would recommend looking at https://planet.www.ads-software.com/ for articles relating to WordPress versions, e.g.:
    https://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-9-released-with-major-improvements-to-customizer-workflow-updated-code-editors-and-new-core-gallery-widget

    Thread Starter Richard Krone

    (@rkrone)

    Thanks Andrew! This will make for some interesting reading today.

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