EasyPhotoAlbumSettings being reset sometimes : Critical Issue

I can’t reproduce you bug. I’ve no idea how this could happen. You are using WordPress version 3.7.1 and Easy Photo Album 1.3 right? Maybe you can give me more information on when and how it happended?

From value of EasyPhotoAlbumSettings I see there are no images in the album and that is why they don’t display on the edit screen. They actually do display at the front-end, because The album was rendered once when the data was available.

The only thing that I can think of to do now, is create new photo albums for each album that is empty.

Thanks for your quick response

Hmmm, I dont know exact steps but what I was doing is.

I have updated many images’ names from media libary. (just names not image paths)

And then I came back to photo albums where those updated images are stored. I updated that album and I lost everything.

And when I did same thing for the first time, It was working good. but when I did same second time, I lost all photos from easyPhotoAlbumSettings.

try this step please.

Also I wanted to be sure for below case.
I am opening any album for editing, and before it completely loads up all images in container, I click ‘Update’ button. can this step cause same empty ‘easyPhotoAlbumSetting’ problem?

Until we find any cause of problem, I am planning to not update the easyPhotoAlbumSetting when it doesn’t get any image to save. I hope this will skip saving empty-image-list in this setting.

I still can’t reproduce it (both of your cases). It would be nice if you could follow the next steps for me and report the result:

• Create a new photo album
• Click on add images and UPLOAD NEW images to that album
• Save the album
• Go to the media library and edit the names of all the images you’ve uploaded in the second step
• Head over to the album you’ve just created
• Save the album again
• Maybe save it once more

It is very strange. I hope we can fix it.

Thanks for your time in looking into this solution.

I can’t reproduce this issue again. But this is the issue for sure. Will let you know if this happens again. This is really frustrating when you can’t really reproduce it and when it produces it destroys your work ??

Any way thanks for your help and special efforts in trying to figure out the problem.

I can’t take risks in my current site, So I am adding below lines in save_data function of EPA_PostType.php file.

if(count($this->current_photos) == 0)
    return false;

Please do me a favor and let me know if this is not the correct way to prevent this issue from occuring.

This is a correct way to prevent to save an empty photo album, but you won’t be able to save an album that you are working on and that you’ve emptied to fill again with new photos. That is why I’ve never implemented it myself. But that is a very rare occasion, so I am going to have a look at it for the next version.

Thanks mate, thanks for your kind and detailed support. I appreciate your attitude towards this note verified issue.

I don’t know if this is associated but I created a new album and uploaded some pictures – the upload didn’t entirely work as the permissions on my upload folder was set to read. I changed the permissions to write but since then images have been appearing twice in an album eg https://ashleyshirlin.com/albums/reunion-2009/
I’ve uninstalled then reinstalled the plugin, created a new album and uploaded new images. I’ve also changed and saved the plugin settings.
Any help appreciated

@ashleyshirlin

It doesn’t seem that your issue is related to the one in this thread. But when I visit your site, I can see some pictures because of the WP User Frontend. That should not be the case, I think. Try it yourself by accessing you website without being logged in.

About your issue,I’m not sure if you reinstalled the plugin before what happened or after. But I think it should just work when WordPress has the right rights for the upload folder.

Thanks for your reply. Interestingly, when I disabled the WP User Frontend plugin the problem went away! Thank you ??

Thanks for reporting that WP User Frontend is the cause of the issue. I’ll add it to the list of incompatible plugins, and maybe I am able to fix it, when I’ve time and no more urgent issues.

I’ve done a bit more digging into the WP User Frontend. It’s not incompatible as such. After you install the plugin WP User Frontend appears on the Dashboard. If you select this various settings are displayed – select the Others tab and deselect Show Attachments in the Post – the duplicate pictures disappear.

Thank you for figuring out, ashleyshirlin! Saved me some time ??