Problems after WP update of 4.5

@edmonds6458 – There could be a plugin conflict going on here or at least it should be ruled out. Have you tried deactivating all of your plugins, clearing your browser cache (and site caches if you are using a caching plugin), then reactivating the NextGEN plugin?

If this fixes the problem then it was likely one of the deactivated plugins that was causing an issue. Now, retrace your steps activating each plugin and re-checking to see if the problem returns. If it does then that last activated plugin was probably the one. Keep reactivating and in most cases it is also best to keep checking after each plugin, sometimes there may be more than one plugin on a site that will create an issue. If you do find one (or more) plugins causing this problem we would greatly appreciate your feedback on them so the developers may address them as soon as they can.

Also to note, in rare cases it may be the theme itself that is causing a conflict so while you have just the NextGEN plugin activated you might consider temporarily switching to one of the default WordPress Twenty series themes and see if this corrects the issue as well.

If the problem still persists after all of this we would still want to know, even more so, as we will still want to sort out the issue and may need additional details.

Thanks!

– Cais.

I have had to remove your plug in from the front page of our magazine and I still use it for a compact album. But that does not work either. Since the last update from WP I now have this error: Warning: strpos() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /home/kidies/public_html/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/nextgen_basic_album/package.module.nextgen_basic_album.php on line 119
I am growing tired of nothing getting done. Here is the page https://parentingplus.com/past-issues/ Once it opens. The customer should be able to click on each page . but it just returns to the first page and freezes.

Hey @edmonds6458 – we definitely want to get things working for you, but we’ll need your help as well in gathering some information for us to have a clear idea of what may be going wrong. Could you confirm you’ve gone through the steps Cais mentioned in our earlier reply? Please let us know if you find any conflict, and please confirm you have the latest version of WordPress and the latest version of NextGEN Gallery running.

Thanks!
Becky

We bought this plug in 5 years ago. Never had a problem. Now nothing works. This warning is three days old, Why is there no update yet?
Warning: strpos() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /home/kidies/public_html/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/nextgen_basic_album/package.module.nextgen_basic_album.php on line 119 https://parentingplus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/image-2-1.png
This whole problem is over a month old.
Becky, Everything was tried over a month ago. I am getting to the point of saying this is the worst plug in ever. To leave me hanging like this is really horrible and very unprofessional.

Warning: strpos() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /home/kidies/public_html/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/nextgen_basic_album/package.module.nextgen_basic_album.php on line 119

@edmonds6458 – Have you tried clearing the image cache under Gallery > Other Options > Miscellaneous? You could also try using the Reset Option under Gallery > Other Options (which puts the plugin back to its installation defaults although I do not expect this will correct a “bad” installation. If the above ideas do not help, have you tried re-installing NextGEN Gallery to insure there is no corrupted (or “bad”) files in the installation?

Thanks!

– Cais.

I am giving up soon. Over a month and still problems. I think there are large problems with this plug in. Still no answer to my problems.

Hey edmonds6458, I noticed this error today as well. I did some research on my end and, for now at least, I resolved the issue of the “Warning: strpos() expects parameter 1 to be string” error by doing the following:

changed line 119 in the file package.module.nextgen_basic_album.php
from:
if (strpos($gallery_id, ‘a’) === 0) {
to:
if (strpos((string) $gallery_id, ‘a’) === 0) {

Hope this helps.

@pinballw Solved the problem. Why are the authors of this Plug in not doing their job. Dealing with @photocrati is ridiculous. Trying things that are obviously not the problem. I still have other problems with this plug in but the error is fixed. Thank You @pinballw for the smarts in your brain ??

@pinballw – Thanks for sharing your work-around here as well.

@edmonds6458 – This is not a wide-spread problem and as such will most likely have a root cause somewhere other than the error line being reported. We are working to find the real issue and correct the problem at that point in the process.

– Cais.

@photocrati How do I get all of my Galleries out of the albums in either a jpeg or PDF format. I am know losing certain months of my magazine and these are not replaceable. This plug in is destroying irreplaceable info. The web designer that set this up said our past issues were safe. This is just to much.

@edmonds6458 – I’m not certain I understand your question … are you looking to print the album/gallery/images (via a PDF) or are you trying to export the NextGEN Gallery library images? Unfortunately there are no options for either of these ideas if that is case.

– Cais.

@photocrati how do i get all my magazine past issues out of your plugin onto a thumb drive or onto my own computer or any where. So I don’t lose anymore images. I installed them into your plugin with a zip file as jpegs

So any images a person puts into your plugin. They lose permanently. Might well just throw things in the garbage can. Why would you not warn people of this nonsense

All the images should be located in /wp-content/gallery (that’s if you didn’t change the default path for the images to be stored in.

As the plugin doesn’t offer an export function you would have to download the images yourself, using some FTP client like Filezilla. Connect to your FTP server, navigate to your /wp-content/gallery/ folder and there you will find all your galleries and images. I suggest to download the entire gallery folder.