Dirk Claesen

Hi Alexander,
Thanks for the reply!

I’m using qtranslate-X as translation plugin.
All categories are entered in 3 languages (Dutch, English and German). For example “[:NL]LANDSCHAPPEN[:EN]LANDSCAPES[:DE]LANDSCHAFTE”.
In the category widget they are displayed correctly in the language that is selected but that same category is also shown below each photo (post) but there the 3 languages are displayed and not only the language selected.
On my home page (https://photona.org) you’ll see the problem with the multiple languages.

And the problem only seems to apply on the category displayed below every post. When clicking on one of these you come to the individual post page on which you see “you may also like”. Here there are 3 pictures displayed and below every picture is the name of the post. The name of the post is also displayed correctly in the language selected.
It would be great if you or the plugin author could find a solution for this.

Kind regards,
Dirk Claesen

Thanks for the quick reply!

Setting the image sizes to

// Thumbnail sizes
add_image_size( ‘typecore-small’, 160, 160, false );
add_image_size( ‘typecore-standard’, 320, 320, false );
add_image_size( ‘typecore-medium’, 520, 520, false );
add_image_size( ‘typecore-large’, 720, 720, false );

and then regenerating solved indeed the issue.
It also works for a new picture I just posted.

Kind regards,
Dirk

Thanks for fixing the issue so quickly and thanks for the workaround as well!

At this moment I have disabled the use of the shortcode.

I’m glad you continuously try to improve WPPA which is already a great plugin. I don’t mind the fact that this can cause a bug to be introduced as you always act immediately..

Thanks again!
Dirk

Update: I just tried posting a picture using Opera and now I see the picture I just posted as well as all previous pictures posted.
Don’t understand what happened but it seems to be working again.

Thanks!

I was indeed using virtual albums like:

[wppa type=”album” album=”#lasten,0,1000000″]

The number of pictures for the virtual albums is defined on I-C7. I was also first looking into I-F but noticed today it is also specified in I-C.
That means that the workaround is now in place.

Should you ever consider to make the number of pictures per page more dynamic, I would be very greatful.

Thanks for the fast assistance you are always providing!

Kind regards,
Dirk

Thanks for the response!

Setting the pagesize to something that can be divided by more numbers is a good workaround that might do the trick in most cases.
However, after changing the number of photos per page for the TopTen and LasTen widgets, I noticed that the change is not visible on the webpage.
I tried changing both TopTen and LasTen to 10, 12 and 48 but the number of pictures in these widgets doesn’t change on my website. On my website I always see 30 photos per page.
TopTen is used on the “Most favourite photos”, LasTen is used on my home page.

I already tried re-initializing the plugin, rebuilding the album index and rebuilding the photo index.

It happens in Internet Erplorer, Chrome and Firefox and also after pressing Ctrl-F5 nothing changes.
Is there something else I need to do?

While I fully understand the example you describe, I think it should be possible to cover that situation as well.
I would keep the first photo of the first line as a given fact. When moving back or forward one page, I would recalculate the photo that should appear as first photo on the first line given the current number of lines and current number of photos per line.
The page number will also have to be recalculated at that moment (or you should be able to trigger this upon rotating the tablet). And indeed you might have an unexpected page number but that is kind of expected if you change the number of pictures per line due to whatever action you take (rotating the tablet or resizing the browser window).
When going back to page 1, changing the number of pictures per page while browsing might result in mathematically picture -3 to be the first picture. But that could be covered by selecting picture 1 whenever the picture number is less than 1 (using max(new_picture_number,1) )

Kind regards,
Dirk Claesen

Strange why it works for you and not for me.
I will also try to investigate this somewhat further.

This is the source info of a tweet I posted a few minutes ago.
The cardname is summary and not summary_large_image as I would expect

<div class=”js-macaw-cards-iframe-container card-type-summary” data-src=”/i/cards/tfw/v1/848253904454340608?cardname=summary&autoplay_disabled=true&forward=true&earned=true&lang=nl” data-card-name=”summary” data-card-url=”https://t.co/Z3IwGqRkcB&#8221; data-publisher-id=”” data-creator-id=”” data-amplify-content-id=”” data-amplify-playlist-url=”” data-full-card-iframe-url=”/i/cards/tfw/v1/848253904454340608?cardname=summary&autoplay_disabled=true&earned=true&lang=nl” data-has-autoplayable-media=”false” style=”min-height: 130px;”>
<iframe id=”xdm_default2976_provider” height=”130″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no” width=”100%” src=”https://twitter.com/i/cards/tfw/v1/848253904454340608?cardname=summary&autoplay_disabled=true&forward=true&earned=true&lang=nl&card_height=130&scribe_context=%7B%22client%22%3A%22web%22%2C%22page%22%3A%22me%22%2C%22section%22%3A%22profile%22%2C%22component%22%3A%22tweet%22%7D#xdm_e=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com&xdm_c=default2976&xdm_p=1&#8243; allowfullscreen=”” style=”display: block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;”></iframe></div>

Secondly the text is still the long one and not only the title of the picture.
<p class=”tcu-resetMargin u-block TwitterCardsGrid-col–spacerTop tcu-textEllipse–multiline”>Zie deze afbeelding op Photona: bekeken: 5 keren</p>

After my extra checks I’ll also have a chat with Twitter directly.

The picture for which the comment initially didn’t succeed in sending the mail was:
https://photona.org/nl/current-photo/?wppa-occur=1&wppa-album=72&wppa-photo=530&wppa-vt=1

There is no special character in the comment: no accent, no tilde, no cydille.
I just tried entering another comment on that same picture and for the second comment the sending of the mail succeeded (with and without the “Easy WP SMTP” plugin).

I don’t know yet how to force the sending of the mail to fail without an SMTP plugin which makes debugging very difficult.
I’ll also try to do some tests to see if I can reproduce the problem.

Regarding the length of the text, you mentioned the fact it will be shorter in 6.6.20.
However, I have now 6.6.21 and the text is still exactly the same as before.
Do I need to change a setting first?

I have installed the “Easy WP SMTP” plugin and now it works.
Strange why it works with one plugin but not with the other.

If you want to further investigate it, I’m willing to assist wherever I can.
Otherwise you may close this ticket.

Let’s hope that all mails will be sent successfully from now on.

Kind regards,
Dirk

The problem happens every time when I post a comment via WPPA (using the “WP-Mail-SMTP” plugin).
Even after installing 6.6.21 the problem remains the same. (“Mail sending failed” is displayed just above the comment field)

Using the contact form on my website mails are sent successfully.
I’ll try with another SMTP plugin to see what happens.

Kind regards,
Dirk Claesen

Thanks again!

What happens if you put one space into the description field? Is it accepted as a valid description?
Otherwise you might try with a hard space (Alt+255). That’s a trick I use from time to time when I have to fill a mandatory field that I want to be empty.

Thanks as well for posting the question again in order to force hte summary_large_image.
Let’s hope you get a good answer this time.

Kind regards,
Dirk Claesen

Thanks for the effort you put into this.

The reply from Twitter is a little bit cheap in my opinion. “It says it looks a little bit like this”
A text next to the picture or below a picture is totally different for me.
This in fact matches what they present as “Summary Card”.
A picture with the text below it should be “Summary Card with Large Image” so following their description it should display differently.

I also used the card validator with this URL

https://photona.org/nl/current-photo/?wppa-occur=1&wppa-album=143&wppa-photo=525&wppa-vt=1

And for me the text displays next to the picture in the validator as well.

Could you add a flag to choose if “text:description” needs to be displayed?
Then I could at least disable that next which hopefully will display the image at least somewhat larger.

Kind regards,
Dirk Claesen

I installed the “WP Mail SMTP” plugin but when I activate it, I consistently get the message “Mail Send Failed” when posting a comment on a picture.
When I send a test mail from the plugin’s configuration page or via the “SB Welcome email” plugin that I also have installed, I can send a mail without any issues.
My SMTP configuration must therefore be correct.
Is there something I can do to provide you with more debugging info?
My ISP is one.com in case that would matter.

Kind regards,
Dirk

Thanks for implementing this feature.

I have set the retries to 3. I assume as well that 10 should be more than enough.

Kind regards,
Dirk Claesen
https://photona.org
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