SottoVoce

Hi,

User Agent Groups are not enabled. The link is shared by using Android’s share menu from Chrome. I didn’t tested pasting the link directly.

Thank you

Sure Marko,

This is happening when sharing any link to WhatsApp from an Android device. Normally, when you share a link to WhatsApp, it shows a ?site preview? which includes meta description and featured image from post.

I understand that property=og:image should be working fine, because if I share the same link by using an iOS device it works as it should be. Sharing to Facebook or Twitter is also working correctly.

I guess that somehow WhatsApp user-agent is not able to pick the right image from post when generating that preview, and it is something related to page cache, because it works if I disable W3TC. The thing that I can’t understand is why this is only happening when using Android devices, and I tested using three different devices.

For example this one is not working: https://www.aberturasldo.com.ar/puertas-multianclaje-ldo/ and same thing is happening to any blogpost.

Marko, I hope that this help you understand what it’s going on.

Thank you and regards.

I’m sorry Fred, it was a client installation and I switched to W3TC. I will give your plugin a new opportunity, I really like it.

No Fred, no rules for this installation.

is that increase okay ?

It’s normal. Go to your backup software/plugin and exclude cache folder. Go to Swift Performance Lite and take note of ->Settings ->Caching ->General -> Cache Path.

Cache usually resides on /wp-content/cache/

• This reply was modified 5 years, 12 months ago by SottoVoce.

@ghina1, Cache are physical files that resides inside your WordPress installation. You might want to skip your cache folder from backup to avoid this situation.

@gabyimagely,

I filled the bug report, as detailed as possible.

I appreciate your help, and I hope they can find a solution.
Regards

@gabyimagely

Sure I’m using a code from 2 years ago. And I’m also using codes from 10 years ago, because I started using Alex Rabe’s plugin in 2008.

That ?2 years ago? code that you mention, was the one that the plugin automatically inserted when that posts were created 2 years ago, until you guys changed the way it works to whatever style is current now.

So I asume that the posts that I’m creating right now will be useless in two years time following the same criteria.

I wasted hours trying to get this work, and it would have been better a straight answer to this if Imagely knew that there is no way to do it besides than editing each post. I took the time to read a lot of threads that talks about this same situation, and the only answer form Imagely was to run the NextGEN Gallery Reset plugin.

I will fill that bug report that you are asking, but I feel that Imagely is not clear enough about what is causing this. The only thing I know is that only you guys know how your plugin works, you changed the way it inserts the code into posts, and galleries are not working anymore with the now ?old? code.

We are talking about a 8-year-old site with thousands of posts and more than 2.700 inserted galleries. You must understand why I’m not happy with this situation.

Thank you for taking the time to answer anyway.

Well, I finally realized that this “[Not a valid template]” error is related with our recent move to new server. The way that galleries were inserted by previous versions of the plugin somehow harcoded the path to the template, so switching to a new server with different path seems to be the cause for this error.

I insist, is there any way of changing this path without the need of manually going though editing each post one by one? I can’t believe there isn’t.

Regards

After doing a little bit of research, I realized that the /nextgen-attach_to_post/preview/id--XXXX part included on that galleries inserted on old posts references to an image stored inside a folder named dynamic that resides inside of each gallery folder, which is the image that appears with a legend overlaid that shows “NextGEN Gallery Click to edit” when editing that old posts.

Now that we know that the id--XXXX part references to that image, I guess that there must be a way to join that information with gallery ID inside wp_ngg_gallery or wp_ngg_pictures NGG tables, to be able to update wp_posts accordingly.

• This reply was modified 6 years ago by SottoVoce.

Mihai,

I understand where template file resides, which I don’t understand is where it’s referenced inside database, to be able to change that path using a database query.
Thank you

@mihaiimagely,

I don’t completely understand where the old path is stored inside database. If I go to edit some of this old posts I see something similar to this:

<img class="ngg_displayed_gallery mceItem" src="https://www.MYWEBSITE/nextgen-attach_to_post/preview/id--81950" alt="" data-mce-placeholder="1?>.Old template path is not embedded inside post, so I assume that resides inside database.

I would like to run an update query as you suggested, but I’m not quite sure where /home/wpress/public_html/wp-content/themes/MYTHEME/nggallery/MYLEGACYTEMPLATE.php is located. I can’t find it inside wp_postmeta, ngg_album, ngg_gallery or ngg_pictures.

I would greatly appreciate any advice on this.

Thank you.

@gabyimagely

Could you please share with us the shortcode that you are currently using in your galleries?

Gaby, it doesn’t look like a shortocde thing, because if I open the wrong size thumbnail in a new window it shows at full size in spite of being inside gallery/thumbs/ folder.

Anyway, I will be addressing the other thread first.
Regards

@gabyimagely,

Updating old inserted gallery by manually selecting the right template from drop down list in customize display settings -> Legacy (Old) Templates, inserts gallery correctly, and it changes html as following:

From: <img class="ngg_displayed_gallery mceItem" src="https://www.MYWEBSITE.com/nextgen-attach_to_post/preview/id--107218" data-mce-placeholder="1?>

To: [ngg src="galleries" ids="1879" display="basic_thumbnail?]

You mention that that shortcode is pretty old, but it was inserted by using menu icon from NGG plugin by the time the post was created. If NGG should read that old shortcode, the only thing that changed now is the path for the legacy template, but I can’t figure it out where it’s stored into the database.

I Successfully changed another shortcode that some version of NGG also used, and I did it by searching and replacing template path from database. It was easy because path was present in html:

[ngg_images source="galleries" container_ids="2534" display_type="photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails" override_thumbnail_settings="0" thumbnail_width="75" thumbnail_height="75" thumbnail_crop="1" images_per_page="8" number_of_columns="0" ajax_pagination="0" show_all_in_lightbox="0" use_imagebrowser_effect="0" show_slideshow_link="0" slideshow_link_text="[Mostrar presentación de diapositivas]" template="/home/wpress/public_html/wp-content/themes/MYTHEME/nggallery/MYLEGACYTEMPLATE.php" order_by="filename" order_direction="ASC" returns="included" maximum_entity_count="500?]

But I can’t find template path to replace for the other old shortcode style.

Mihai,

I have my galleries organized this way: Each gallery has it’s own page which I create using the “add page” button from Manage Gallery section. When some gallery is used inside a post, clicking an image takes you to the previously created page, to be able to see all the images.

I understand that there is a ?Create new thumbnails? action, but the thing is that I currently have 2.744 galleries and I think that going through the 98 pages is not the best choice. This is why I’m asking if there is another way to recreate thumbnails in bulk.

Thank you.