Easy Fancybox takes 90 seconds to start working

Hi Joe, I cannot think of anything new since 1.8.1 that would cause this time lapse… is there any possibility I could see it happening live? Could you move your local site image to a public location (on a subdomain for example) for testing it live?

Thanks for your reply, Ravan. I’ll look into setting up a subdomain, but I think that won’t be a trivial exercise – I need to create new databases etc etc. Maybe it would be a good learning exercise for me ??

It’s strange that others aren’t having this same problem. It makes me think there is something about my setup, or maybe a plug-in interaction. However, it is definitely tied to Easy Fancybox, because it works fine with version 1.8, and not with versions after 1.8. By the way, 1.8.1 doesn’t have the time lapse issue – it just doesn’t work at all. Version 1.8.3 does start working after about 90 seconds. I’m not sure about 1.8.2 – I know it doesn’t work, but I don’t know if it starts working after a time delay.

I’ll reply on this chain if I can figure out how to show you the error on a live site.

So you have NextCellent Gallery. What other plugins are you using? And which theme? I could try to reproduce this on my own dev installation…

I am working on putting my website in a subdomain so you can see it live. I hit a snag (DB wouldn’t import), but have now gotten past that. Hopefully I’ll be able to get it done soon.

I use my own theme, which is a child of the Thematic theme. However, I found that if I use the ‘standard’ Twentyseventeen them from WordPress that I have the same problem with Easy Fancybox.

I use a plugin that I wrote, but when I de-activate it I still have the same problem.

Other than that, I use the following plugins:
AddToAny Share Buttons
Advanced Excerpt
Akismet Anti-Spam
Batch Comment Spam Deletion
Better Notifications for WordPress
Easy FancyBox (version 1.8)
Email Log
Excel to Table
iframe
Jetpack
Like
NextCellent Gallery
Simply Show IDs
Subscribe2
Table of Contents Plus
Tag Gallery Page 2 (my own plug-in)

Thanks much for your consideration of this issue. I’ll let you know if I get the subdomain working.

OK, so we can quickly conclude it’s not the theme so it (probably) is an incompatibility with the NextCellent Gallery or another plugin.

Did you try deactivating all other plugins on your local test site?

Quick test setup here https://dev.status301.net/test-2/ shows no issues. Or at least not on my Chrome browser… Are you using NextCellent in a different way?

Maybe it’s related to “Tag Gallery Page 2″… BTW I notice you have Tag Gallery Page running too. Are you sure your version (?) and that other one are compatible running side by side?

Try replacing easy_fancybox_handler() ; with jQuery(document).trigger('post-load'); in tgp2_js.js

Thanks for the ideas, and for looking into this.

I’m not using NextCellent in any different way. In my theme I have some custom code that adds to the photo captions, but I eliminated that by using a different theme.

I was surprised that Tag Gallery Page was activated. (it is the first version of my Tag Gallery Page plugin – I use Tag Gallery Page 2 now). I deactivated it. It was not activated on my local machine. However, I can activate them both, and have in the past with no problems. (the first version does a reload, and the second doesn’t).

On my local machine, I deactivated all plug-ins except Easy Fancybox and Nextcellent and had the same problem. This test is also using the Twentyseventeen theme.

I will try replacing easy_fancybox_handler(). However, my goal with ‘Tag Gallery Page 2’ was to use AJAX and not reload the page (‘Tag Gallery Page’ reloads the page). Will your suggested code change cause a reload of the post?

I decided to copy my entire site to the subdomain so I can test it with everything the same, and then change it from there. It’s taking a while to copy everything over.

I’ll let you know the progress. Thanks much.

I created a test site that is a copy of my site, but I haven’t gotten it to work yet. BTW: it is at wwww.thelesters.net/tlntestsite

In the meantime, I updated Easy FancyBox to the latest version (1.8.3) on my live site. I don’t see the problem anymore! I’m very sorry about sending you after a ghost. As a recap, what happened is the following. I updated the Easy FancyBox plugin from 1.8 to 1.8.1. After doing so, I saw the problem on my live site, which was: after clicking on a thumbnail, the photo came up in with a black screen with no captions, and I had to click the back arrow to get back to my site. I panicked, and backed Easy Fancybox back to 1.8, and it worked fine. I then set about trying to fix the problem on my test environment on my local machine, where I saw the same problem. I tried versions 1.8.2 and 1.8.3, etc, as I have described in the past.

Where I’m at now:
1. It seems to be working fine on my live site! Great news for me. Thanks for your help, and again, I apologize for wasting your time.
2. My local machine test environment still has the problem! I guess, for now, I will conclude that the problem is with my local machine. I need to work on fixing this so that I will have a good test environment again.
3. I have a test site as a sub-domain, but it doesn’t work yet. I think I have to complete some additional steps in my hosting service ‘Domain Central’. This took quite a while, mostly waiting for download/upload, but also learning how to do it, and going down some wrong paths. I’ll work on this some more to get it working as a test site for future testing.

Thanks so much for all your help.

UPDATE: FYI: my test site now works at thelesters.net/tlntestsite. I had to update the .htaccess file. I know you don’t care about this since Easy FancyBox now works, but just updating my previous post.

Interesting on my test site the galleries appear different. The thumbnails have no border and are all squished together. Should be the same as my main site, since I copied it. I assume this isn’t Easy FancyBox related? I compared settings and they appear to be the same. Sorry to ask another question. You may know off the top of your head. Otherwise, I’ll pursue as yet another ‘mystery’. ??

Fixed gallery style with NextCellent change. One mystery solved.

Will your suggested code change cause a reload of the post?

No, it won’t reload the page ??