Retain Tiled galleries; stop Photon serving any other images

  • Resolved Gary Allman

    (@gsallman)


    7 years, 6 months ago

    I didn’t even know I’d enabled Photon, I am going to have to deal with this on a dozen or more sites.

    I use tiled galleries on many sites, and I understand (and am very reluctantly going to accept that in the short term at least I will have to use Photon with tiled galleries), but I do not want Photon serving up any other images on my sites.

    How can I enable Tiled galleries and not use photon elsewhere? Photon has already screwed up one of my sites, and I want to kill this problem before I encounter the issue on others.

    And as an alternative solution, Can anyone recommend a solid replacement for Jetpack’s tiled galleries that’ll serve up my tiled galleries using the existing short code without me having to recode 100’s of pages across a dozen or more sites?

    • This topic was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by Gary Allman.
    • This topic was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by Gary Allman.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Thread Starter Gary Allman

    (@gsallman)

    To save some time to with the above link, to see the issue scroll to the bottom of the page where all the images are blurred and cannot be fixed.

    I am now encountering this problem on other sites, and I have a huge number of posts that include Tiled Galleries, fixing this is a nightmare.

    Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic ??

    Sorry about the delay in writing back to you.

    How can I enable Tiled galleries and not use photon elsewhere?

    To do so, you can go to this page and disable the Photon module:
    https://yoursite.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=jetpack_modules

    Photon has already screwed up one of my sites, and I want to kill this problem before I encounter the issue on others.
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    to see the issue scroll to the bottom of the page where all the images are blurred and cannot be fixed.

    That’s helpful, thank you. It seems to be a conflict between Photon and the plugin you use to output Related Posts on your site (Contextual Related Posts I believe). The plugin seems to call for image thumbnails from WordPress, and then I believe receives those images with the size specified for thumbnails under Settings > Media in your dashboard. In most cases, that thumbnail size is set to 150×150, soft crop (which means that if an image doesn’t have that square image ratio, WP will create a thumbnail that respects the image ratio; you will consequently end up with an image that is 150px high or long, but that has a shorter length.

    I don’t think your Related Posts plugin accounts for that custom size and soft crop, as it always resize the images to 150×150, although your thumbnails appear to be set to 50×50 soft crop. I would suggest checking your Related Posts plugin settings: maybe it includes image settings that you could adjust.
    It might also be worth checking your media settings as well.

    Let me know if it helps.

    Thread Starter Gary Allman

    (@gsallman)

    That’s a great link, and it’s enabled me to disable Photon — as I can see from the URLs the images are now being served up from — The issue as you rightly pointed out with Contextual Related Posts Is still there on old images despite a full reload of the page, I’ll have to try some other things as it may be I need to turn off and restart Caching again.

    I think this is resolved as far as my original query is concerned in that I now have a way of turning off Photon on my sites. In all the research I did I didn’t see a link to the page you suggested. So thank you very much.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Gary Allman.
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