ericjforman

thank you sigurdurg

Follow-up: even using a plugin like “Regenerate Thumbnails” to force update of other sizes does not work. (https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/). Again, it does work with different file names. If nobody else is having this problem, maybe it is something to do with my theme using Custom Post Types?

The bug seems to have something to do with the file name. It does not work fully if uploading a new file with the same name. If you change the file name before upload AND choose “use new file name”, it does work. If you try a workaround to change the name back and re-upload, even with “use new file name”, again it doesn’t work, the full size image will work but the other sizes will revert to the old version.

Thank you Trisha, will give it a shot

bug report submitted

yes I empty all caches frequently. the error messages still pop up once or twice a day, seemingly at random. sometimes in the afternoon, sometimes in the middle of the night. (i’m not clear on how W3TC schedules its minifying, does anyone know?)

Version 0.9.2.11, same issue

i have the same problem with latest release.

Recently an error occurred while creating the CSS / JS minify cache:
File "/home5/ericform/public_html/wp-content/themes/style.css" doesn't exist.

it makes no sense since any style.css should be inside an individual theme folder, not the parent “themes” folder. e.g. …/public_html/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve/style.css.

For those who just want to hide the Greeting Text (“Leave your comment” etc.), AKA “reply title”, just put this in your style.css:

#reply-title { display: none; }

right. you see what i’m saying though, moving forward. in the current version to re-arrange some images, as you pointed out, you have to go to Insert Media. but that’s not what you’re doing, you’re not inserting, you’re editing. there should be an option that says “Edit Gallery” or in this case, and to your points, “Edit Attached Images.” there is such an option, but you can’t see it unless you insert a gallery with a shortcode.

ah ha, i see what you’re saying. you’re right that works. thank you!

however, i stand by my point about Galleries existing without shortcodes. I have always used the Gallery feature to re-order attached images. Any plugin that pulled from the gallery would see those edits. Using the shortcode or not was irrelevant.

I went back to a site with 3.4 to grab some screenshots to prove this.

post with a gallery:
https://ericforman.com/public/Gallery%20present%20without%20shortcode.PNG

that post has no shortcode:
https://ericforman.com/public/No%20shortcode.PNG

that post’s gallery displays without a shortcode:
https://ericforman.com/public/Gallery%20shows%20with%20slideshow.PNG

a collection of images you can edit and re-order should be called a gallery. how you display it is up to you, with WP’s gallery rendering or without. editing that gallery should be called “edit gallery.” that’s how it’s been, and is now no longer.

but thank you Samuel for the workaround! it’s good enough for now.

no maybe i’m not being clear. the plugin continues to work fine. it’s the WP editor that i’m talking about. if i delete the plugin, the issue is the same. pre-existing galleries that are not displayed with shortcodes are not editable. is nobody else having this issue?

And yes, the gallery does exist without a shortcode. That’s what the “set featured image” screenshot demonstrates. Also my entire site has worked this way since WP 2. And it still works! Just to be clear, the gallery does display when viewing the site (using “cycle” slideshow plugin, without a shortcode). My problem is the new feature makes it impossible to see or edit the gallery.

Thanks Samuel. As I said, I am not using the shortcode, therefore there is no placeholder box in Visual editor. I don’t use the shortcode because the slideshow pulls from the gallery. In all previous versions of WP, the gallery was editable regardless of whether you chose to use WP’s shortcode and display method or not.

screenshots:

existing gallery has no edit feature:
https://ericforman.com/public/Existing%20Gallery%20has%20no%20Edit%20feature.PNG

but it IS visible if you use “Set featured Image” set to “uploaded to this post”:
https://ericforman.com/public/Existing%20Gallery%20is%20visible%20as%20uploaded.PNG

a new test gallery does have the edit feature
https://ericforman.com/public/New%20test%20gallery%20DOES%20have%20Edit%20feature.PNG