bxwebber

Thanks for your response.
Maybe you can take a look at a gallery I now have (here), made with Slim Jetpack. Image sizes are evenly distributed but it still has masonry tiles, adjustments of cropping are hardly noticeable and when rescaled the relative sizes stay intact- it was made in minutes. I didn’t succeed in getting a comparable result with the same images in Final Tiles, not even after 2 hours of work (two of these gallery tests can be seen here). Every attempt ended up with small (and less important) images becoming oversized compared to more important (higher res) images, and still columns rather than masonry tiles. I still don’t understand what determins the relative size of the images.

The lightbox I now use (Lightbox Plus Colorbox) is much quicker (times can be set) and more stable. I also didn’t succeed, by the way, in coupling that lightbox to the Final Tiles gallery, it just wouldn’t work.

But (sadly) true: my Slim JP gallery now lacks the beautiful detail in responsiveness that Final Tiles offers. That’s why I gave Final Tiles a try (and hope for improvements in the future).

I used images of very different sizes and aspect ratios, like from 1024×325 to almost square 435×453, a mix of (very) rectangular, square, portrait, landscape, small and big. And: my max content width is quite narrow: 560 px. Maybe results with Final Tiles would’ve been better with a larger number of images that all have the same aspect ratio, used in a wider content width?

Apart from some undesired technical effects of changing settings (small images becoming big and unsharp, extreme cropping, columns instead of tiles), maybe I just want something different from a gallery, especially in this case: at least some control over which images are visually more important than others. Final Tiles seems a bit random in its size ordering: part of the charm but not what I need right now. Part of the annoyance is that the settings pretend to give you lots of control, while in fact there’s only little that you really have control over.

I’ve seen galleries (custom made or paid plugins) that reorder and rescale the gallery but still keep the size hierarchy and masonry style intact. That’s what I also expected from Final Tiles at first. Now I think that Final Tiles was designed with something else in mind.

So, Final Tiles could work for some people, but (as I said before) it won’t be everyone’s cup of tea.

Maybe the fix suggested in this thread will help?

Works the same as standard galleries (like Jetpack). So follow the instructions here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/images/gallery/#
or here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/images/gallery/#adding-a-gallery
There are also a few settings in de media settings panel

I also posted the issue on the developer’s Github page…

Thanks for responding, Christopher. At least it’s clear now what the problem is.
Hopefully the developer reads your info as well…

I’m having more or less the same problem: Jetpack (previous version as well as the newer 2.9.3) is breaking Akismet.

See my new threat.

Should ‘ve read the last part of the description on the WP-plugin page better – the ‘Chinese’ I was referring to earlier is clear code here… That gave me one part of the solution. So, in case anyone has the same question, this is the solution:

1. Put the main image in your post in the usual way (don’t forget to link it to the mediafile)

2. add rel=”lightbox[groupID]” to the first part of the a tag ( ‘groupID’ can be any name you choose for the group of images you want to link).

3. Add the other images to your post the usual way (again: don’t forget to link it to the media file)

4. Delete the actual <img ….. /> part inside every link of these other images, so you end up with only the a-links (that won’t be visible in your post).

5. Add the same rel=”lightbox[groupID]” to every one of these links.

Et voilá… When you click the image in your post now, the lightbox opens and you can click through the whole group of images.

Great!

You’re welcome. Glad it works.

This seems to work to remove the blue focus border:
Put the following css in your style sheet:

#colorbox:focus {outline:none !important;}
#cboxWrapper:focus {outline:none !important;}

Hopefully it will be fully solved in a next update.

I’m having the same problem:

There’s a strange blue line partly around the images in Safari 6.1.4 (Mac) as wel as in Chrome 35 (Mac). The shape is different in both browsers, though. Looks like a focus border.

Not in Firefox and Opera (Mac) by the way.

Changing that code in my case doesn’t seem to work. Instead, it’s completely the opposite:

Old code:
display of the image title (when ‘Use WP caption’ is checked),
no display of the caption (no matter what the settings are).

Proposed code fix:
display of the PAGE TITLE (when ‘Use WP caption’ is checked),
no display of anything when ‘Use WP caption’ and “Do not display title’ is unchecked.

But, unlike the earlier posters (?) Im running WP 3.9.1.
And using Lightbox combined with Slim jetpack tiled gallery

Maybe I’ll start a new thread for this issue.

Thanks for you quick respons!

By what you say (‘no settings and shortcodes included’) I understand that when you create a gallery with this plugin the thumbnail gallery grid is the only option. So: the ‘cool mosaic’ or ’tiled gallery’ won’t work by definition…

I’ve done some more testing in a standard WP install, without any other plugins (and Slim Jetpack turned off). Just created new galleries without any extras in the shortcodes. I’ve now discovered that it depends on the WP theme how the gallery will look and if the thumbnail grid will work or not.

In Twenty Twelve and Twenty Fourteen the thumbnail gallery works fine and also scales with the content width, in the choosen number of columns. But in Twenty Thirteen I don’t get the number of gallery columns set when creating the gallery, and the gallery doesn’t scale with the content width properly. Unfortunately Thirteen is the theme I want to use… Other lightboxes I’ve tried just worked fine in this theme with Slim Jetpacks ‘cool mosaic’.

In all three themes the unexpected color when hovering the buttons in the lightbox is the same (is this intented? because it’s not the case in the online demo).

My site is not online yet, so I can’t show anything, but you can easily try this out yourself.

A suggestion: on the WP plugins page make clear how to use the plugin and what to expect about the type of gallery. ‘Install and enjoy’ sounds inspiring but is hardly a usable instruction…

All in all it’s a pity, because it’s one of the best looking, most easy to use and fastest free lightboxes I’ve seen so far.

Found a solution:

in the General Settings tab you can set something called ‘Grouping Labels’, in fact how the numbering of the images appears ??

The ‘Use for WordPress Galleries’ seems to be sitting here:

Lightbox Plus Colorbox – Primary Lightbox Settings
> tab General (the first tab)