willw9

Resolved.

I had to:

sudo apt-get install php5.6-xml
sudo apt-get install php5-gd
sudo service apache2 restar

The cryptic error messages are not appreciated (e.g. “Please activate the GD Image Library”) — I should *not* have to Google around to see what you want me to install. Instead, please provide a link, or the canonical command to try / package to install (referenced by its actual name in apt).

Otherwise, thanks for the prompt responses last week.

Didn’t work. What next?

I am scared to delete and re-install your app because I don’t trust that my existing galleries will still be there.

Also, when I do “Import from Media Library”, the In Progress bar just hangs, and does nothing.

Here’s some relevant output. I don’t think things are working:

? ~ php -v
PHP 5.6.37-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 (cli)
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies
with Xdebug v2.5.5, Copyright (c) 2002-2017, by Derick Rethans

? ~ php7.0 -m
[PHP Modules]
calendar
Core
ctype
date
exif
fileinfo
filter
ftp
gettext
hash
iconv
json
libxml
openssl
pcntl
pcre
PDO
Phar
posix
readline
Reflection
session
shmop
sockets
SPL
standard
sysvmsg
sysvsem
sysvshm
tokenizer
xdebug
Zend OPcache
zlib

[Zend Modules]
Xdebug
Zend OPcache

? ~ php7.2 -m
[PHP Modules]
calendar
Core
ctype
date
dom
exif
fileinfo
filter
ftp
gettext
hash
iconv
json
libxml
openssl
pcntl
pcre
PDO
Phar
posix
readline
Reflection
session
shmop
SimpleXML
sockets
sodium
SPL
standard
sysvmsg
sysvsem
sysvshm
tokenizer
wddx
xdebug
xml
xmlreader
xmlwriter
xsl
Zend OPcache
zlib

[Zend Modules]
Xdebug
Zend OPcache

? ~

What next? I ran sudo apt-get upgrade. How do I make sure my site is using php7.2?

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by willw9.

Anybody get this to work? Still cannot figure it out for the life of me.

Daniel:

Can’t get this to work for the life of me. Disabled plugins, disabled Lightbox, added in your code to the functions.php file, yet nothing happens. The images display in the original rudimentary grid when inserted as a gallery, and if clicked, link to either the attachment page or their own separate page with the image title, etc. In Settings–>Media, I just have the option of Black/White background, and Insert/Don’t Insert EXIF data.

How should I proceed?