wpo-HR

Hi Paul,

this plugin just searches for images and uses NextGEN Galleries to display the search result list. You can use any NextGEN Gallery to display the search result. Try diferent lightbox effect options on the NextGEN admin panel.

Best regards
Harald

Some users report such incompatibilities.
Up to now it appears that this is a javascript / jquery issue.
Maybe some themes or plugins use specific different jquery versions which overwrite wordpress core code.
The only function where NGG smart image search uses such jquery functions is the wordpress provided color picker on the setting page.
I provided a manual update V 3.0.1 where one can deactivate the color picker on the setting page.
Up to now this solved all reported problems.
Please use the link above to download this update and install it manually.

Hi,
no, I do not see a reason why someone should search for an url.
As documented, you can search for image filename, title, description and/or tags.
Regards
Harald

The default behaviour is depending on the search field.

If you use the widget, the search is directd to the default landing page which is specified in the settings.

If you use the search shortcode, the default landing page is the same page, where the search shortcode is defined. With version 3 you can now define the landing page by a shortcode parameter.

Each landing page must use the display shortcode to geenrate and display the result list.

You can download Version 3.01 from my website Temp Version V3.01. Just download it and manually install it after deactivating the previous version.

The main diference between V2.8 Beta and V3.0 is the inclusion of the color picker, which is WordPress Core functionality based on jquery/javascript.

Up to now I could only find one possible explanation for the reported problems: these WordPress installations might use a theme or a special pugin, which replaces the wordpress provided jquery library by an own version in an incompatible mode. This could possibly produce side effects as described.

Anyway, I provided a manual update for this issue where I added an option on the settings page which deactivates the color picker usage.
Please test this update and provide feedback.

You can find this update on my website here.

Hi Ralf,
thanks for upgrading, I hope you can enjoy the new functionality.

Your issue with the two dashboard buttons sounds strange to me.
The dashboard uses these two buttons (contextual-help-link and show-settings-link) till wp 4.9.8. Since wp 5.0 I only see the contextual-help-link button.
Per javascript a click on these buttons toggles a class definition (hidden) which in turn causes hidden text to appear or disappear.
My updated plugin only uses one javascript command actively which attaches the color picker to the two color input fields on my setting page.
I tested this function on several wordpress instances with different browsers and with wp 5.0 and wp 4.9.8 (however no apple device). It all worked fine. And I just checked also the mentioned contextual help and show settings button on the dashboard. They worked fine in my tests too. I do not see the problem you descibed.
So with my means I can not recognize any dependencies between your issue and my plugin. Maybe you experience a browser-specific javascript issue?
If you wish, you can download the previous plugin version from my website if that version works fine for you.
Best regards
Harald

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by wpo-HR.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by wpo-HR.

With the now available beta version the issues above should be fixed.

Hi,
you can see the described behaviour on the folowing test page:
https://test.r-fotos.de/testpage-faq/

Just open one item and than click collapse all.

Hi Fred,

no, that is beyond the scope of the current plugin logic.
One would have to dynamically define and administer custom fields for search queries. Such a logic is not planned. You would have to extend the plugin for yourself if you would need such a function.

Best regards
Harald

Currently there is no option to suppress this ‘no searchstring entered..’ message. I do not see a possibility to distinguish between accidentally missing a searchstring and invoking a page for the first time. Maybe changing the text itself would be a help.

By the way, I tried a searchstring ‘pan’ on your page and the number of displayed images was limited to 30 (by plugin setting). However, your nextgen configuration only shows 20 images before paging. But as stated in other entries, paging does not work with the search plugin. If you limit plugin search to 30 images, you should also set nextgen paging parameter to 30 images.

There may be several reasons that the normal search page adressing will not work. In the past users had configuration problems with their wordpress site (e.g. https was not correctly set up in wordpress database) or they used redirections outside the scope of wordpress means.
You can easily find the automatically generated search page by following the ‘page edit link’ on the settings page of the plugin.

Try AJAX pagination No and imagebrowser effect no and set images per page to 30 (i.e. to the number which is set as limit for displaying search results)

Hi Luisa,

when looking at the source code of your page it seems to me that there is a conflict between the way you are using nextgen gallery and the smart image search plugin.

Smart image search first searches for the desired images and than passes the result list to a dynamically defined nextgen gallery which displays the thumbnails and subsequently the images in the current browser tab.
This works fine in most situations.
However, if e.g. nextgen gallery uses different pages for all the images it calls the same browser page again passing the new gallery page number. But the current page receives no search parameters in this situation, therefore no search result list is generated and no dynamically build up nextgen gallery is called.
Your situation looks similar. Nextgen gallery passes this parameters:
class=’use_imagebrowser_effect’ data-imagebrowser-url=’https://www.malleusdelic.com/site/search-ngg-images-6/nggallery/image/%STUB%’
so it seems to me that it redirects the image display back to the current page thereby loosing the context.
Sounds a bit difficult to resolve.
Maybe you can reset the settings of the basic gallery display to there default values which should work.
Best regards
Harald

Hi Luisa,
basic thumbnail display should work for you as described.
If you enter the searchstring rock>bt as shown here you will dynamically get a basic thumbnail display as desired.
To get it permanently, you must use the parameter
display=ngg_basic_thumbnails
or
display=’ngg_basic_thumbnails’ (be careful: do not copy this text! WordPress changes the quotation marks for display in textfields. You must type these quotation marks by yourself, do not copy from wordpress reply text here).

Best regards
Harald