Parakoos

For Phojo and my other app (kind of a chess clock but for board games, https://sharedgametimer.com/ ) I use Vue as the front end Javascript framework and Firebase for the serverless database, file storage, simple functions and hosting. It has been remarkably easy to work with and I’m amazed at what the web can do as an app platform.

The image wall is no work to maintain. If there were to be new features perhaps I could use a hand, but at the moment, it seems to be doing it’s thing. ?? If you want to contact me outside of here, find my contact email at the bottom of the Shared Game Timer page.

Aww, thank you so much for the kind words! I haven’t really done much to it for many years, except test it on new WP versions and upping the “tested with” flag. It amazes me how backward-compatible wordpress has been over the years.

I made a free daily-photo visual journal app that you might be interested in. The idea is to use a daily photo to build a curated gallery of what one’s life looks like. One day at a time, fun or boring day, each one gets one ‘square’. You can check it out at https://phojo.app or (if you want to see what my public journal looks like, see https://phojo.app/u/parakoos)

Woo has a pretty specific way of doing stuff, so no, don’t think so. All the image wall does is use https://isotope.metafizzy.co/layout-modes/masonry.html and the fact that photos are attached to posts and pages to marry them up. If you have a specific need and want to display them with a masonry layout, try using the library straight away.

Hi all. OK, I’ve pushed a new version, 3.0, that should be WP 5.5 compatible.

Note that this is old code that I haven’t been actively maintaining for a long time. I haven’t needed to until now. So, when it suddenly needed some TLC, I decided to touch as few lines of code as possible to reduce the risk of screwing up. So, the loading messages are gone I’m afraid.

I did have to change some code, and not just that, but I had to upgrade two libraries which … well, all kind of things had changed with them! So, unexpected bugs are expected! Make sure things work, and if they don’t, open up issues here.

Thanks!

Hi!

Thanks for the error report! Sorry it has taken me some time to respond. Busy busy busy. ??

Glad to see you found a way around the issue, and, that sure does point the finger of blame at jQuery. I haven’t upgraded my own site to 5.5 yet (see: ??) but I will fix it if I can as soon as I get some time. I’ll post back here when that has happened. Might be a couple of weeks before I have free time though!

Thanks again,

Gustav

There is no such functionality at present. But, the plugin doesn’t load all images at once. It loads a set of them, and only load more if the user scroll down.

So glad you like it. And thanks for the reminder to update the tested to version.

OK, so now I see the same thing. I can see that the code that organises the images, Masonry, isn’t run on your site. That means that the images never get this class (kind of like a tag) .masonry-brick, which means that they remain hidden.

So that is why you see nothing. The question is why masonry doesn’t run. I can’t see any errors in the logs, so my suspicion is that some plugin or your theme is getting in the way. I see that you have some kind of loading screen at the start, some blue round wave thingi. I would suspect that is it.

So…. I tried to reload the page a few times and once in a while, it works. That make me think there is a race condition with another plugin. Whichever loads first gets run, and blocks the other. But without admin access it is almost impossible for me to debug further from here.

My advice would be to turn one plugin off at a time, maybe find a plugin that can selectively turn off plugins for specific pages (if there is such a thing) and see if that works. If not, then it is the theme.

So this is what I see when I go to your site:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/m3qae3resv6jfks/MarineSavers.JPG?dl=0

So that looks fine to me. Is your problem that you are missing specific images?

Looks like it is working for me. Sometimes it looks like it grabs a bunch of photos, but then filters them all out, so it has to grab a new batch. Remember, the script will make a request for photos, then apply any filters you have. If your filters are really restrictive, it may give rise to that loading message to appear, disappear and reappear several times.

I can’t remember exactly what the problem was with Photon, but if I marked it down as one of the incompatible scripts, then I probably had a good reason for it, and it would be very difficult to work around.

Wordpress allows scripts to do some weird things, and if it plays too loose and dirty with the standard ways that photos are included in the blog, then my script won’t know what to do with it. So, in short, sorry. I’m afraid there isn’t much I can do.

You have to put the attribute values in quotes.

[image_wall include_pages="false" open_links_in_new_window="false"]

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Christmas and New Years you know.

What is the URL of the image wall? And, what is the shortcode you use?

Sorry to hear that. I’d appreciate it if I could have a chance at looking at the problem before you review the plugin. I’ve had a fair number of cases where the issue was either a problem with expectations, understanding what the plugin is about or incompatibility with other plugins. (In your case, it sounds like the latter.)

I am personally on 4.4.1 and generate my own image wall using the shortcode below:

[image_wall image_sizes="medium , large" column_proportion_restrictions="2" move_to_end="true" open_links_in_new_window="true"]

And that works. I also tried with open_links_in_new_window=”false”, and that worked too.

Always a pleasure to hear from happy users! ??