lightbox/zoom-in not working in Album

Pps. link is not longer correct, as I had to reopen the old gallery.
Photo Album Plus could be found here: https://www.dmc-drochtersen.de/test

best regards
Juergen

“zoom in” in the albums

I do not exactly understand your question.
The thumbnails have now a popup function: if you hover over them, they pop-up larger.
Zoom-in in wppa+ is the (embedded) lightbox feature. See Table VI-(B), where you can select Link type: lightbox. Then you get a magnifier glass cursor, and a lightbox view when you click on the image.

Import:
If you have many pictures, and regular iuploading takes too much time:
Ftp them to your ‘depot’ directory, ususlly
.../wp-content/wppa-depot/{yourloginname}/
and use the Photo ALbums -> Import admin page.
The difference between the Import and the Start Ajax Import buttons is the method. The regular Import button causes a page reload; when server time-out is going to happen, it stops and tries to restart. The Ajax method is much user friendlier, it does import them one by one while you can watch the progress and it will never time-out. Highly recommended!

Make sure you have Table IX-H1,2,4 ticked. Do NOT change Table IX-H3 !!
The wppa-source directory will be created and maintained automaticly. It will contain the photo files as you upload/import them, organized in album sub-folders. These files can be used for hi-res display, download, and remake of ‘normal’ resized display images and thumbnails. You need no ‘manual’ action therein.

The files in …/wp-content/uploads/wppa/ and …/wp-content/uploads/wppa/thumbs/ will be created automaticly. The files in wppa are the resized images as defined in Table I-A2 and 3. The files in …/wppa/thumbs/ are the thumbnail image files, auto created in the size you need ( max of pop-up size, cover image size, thumbnail size, etc… ). If you change a size of one or more of the ‘small’ images that requires the thumbnail to be remade, you will get a message and instructions what to do (Run a maint proc in Table VIII).

Hope this helps.

Hi Jacob,

thank you very much for your fast and perfect support!
Shame on me, I havn’t read Table VI-B, special 5a,b,c,d correct. And missunderstood totally the difference between zoom-in and lightbox. After choosing “lightbox” in VI(B,5) it works like a charme ??
Also I want to say thanks for the additional explanation about importing files. That’s now also much more clear. Please allow me to say, may be you include this in your very good “Docs&Demo”Webpage.
BTW – do you have any experience with speed of there are a lot of pictures with several albums and sub-albums?
Best regards
Juergen

Use the import with the Ajax import button. It is not slower than the other method, but when having very many, you can have spurious server errors (500). You can see that on the import-Ajax screen, and re-try by ticking the box again.

If you have your photos organized in folders and sub-folders, you can ftp full directory trees, and import them ( NOT Ajax ). This will auto create albums and sub-albums with names like the folders. Let it auto restart after time-out, and do not touch your keyboard until completion or error or broken process.

Pls use my new documentation site, register if you want to see everything ( especially geographic data (google maps) and members page ). I am still working on it and try to cover everything, also admin pages. The new site is mobile friendly and much faster.

OK, will do so, thanks for the hint regarding ftp ?? – that’s indeed an easy way of import!
My question regarding speed was not well worded ?? . Experience about speed of WP, whether it slow down (like for other galleries ?? ) the reason why I was searching for another gallery.
Anyway I think the thread could be marked as “solved” now.

Speed: I used to be – in a previous IT life, on so called super mini computers – a performance optimizing specialist. Is is always a challenge for me to keep wppa as fast as possible: i.e. to do as little as possible, to use all kind of internal caching mechanisms to save queries etc. so, speed is one of my continuous concerns while working on wppa+.

Please do not add caching plugins or plugins that reorganize script files or ‘optimize’ html code if you do not exactly know the impact of them; most of the time they either slow down wppa or affect its functionality. Example of wrong ‘speeding up’: delay the load of js files. What do you want tosee first? The bottom line showing ‘Proudly powerd by WordPress’, or the image on the page? I guess the image on the page, besides, loading the js files is only once, the second page uses the visitors browser cache version of the js files, so, to my opinion, postponing loading js just slows down the visitors experience. I could talk another hour about ‘optimizations’ that if fact work contra productive…

haha, glad to found you and your plugin ??
you confirm my feeling “… if you do not exactly know the impact…”.
Indeed I think that’s a never ending story. And it’s so easy to add one plugin after another into WP … but it’s not so easy to understand as WP is working. I thounght that I know a little bit about programming but to understand WP, puuuh that’s difficult. It’s so nested with all codes which are creating pages during building the side. And a lot of plugins insert js-files every time, even they are needed or not (that’s my feeling, and I guess it’s not so wrong).
Anyway thank you very much for your time and patience, even, just read that you are already retiered – that’s my target too ?? latest in 2 1/2 year ?? so I guess time is not a major problem. Could also be that it’s in the Netherlands like often in Germany, after retired you have less time than before ??
Best regards
Juergen

Please feel free to ask anything about wppa+, or wp. I do not guarantee i know all you ask about wp, but i work almost dayly on plugins for over 6 years, so you may expect i know a bit how it works…

+++CANCEL+++CANCEL+++CANCEL+++
found it right now, have to start in “My Depot” than I get all (hopefully will start in a view minutes ?? ) first want to cancel this…

br Juergen

Hi Jacob,

sorry, it’s me again ??
today morning you wrote Import from my depot-directory will create the albums based on my Albums I have there. For me not ?? I guess one small switch is wrong set in my installation – but which one?
I must dedicated say import these pictures into this directory. If I want to use only the first main-dir (without pictures) I get the message “noting to import …” May be I misunderstood you …. but if there is really an easier way than to create every album manually I want to go this way ??

best regards
Juergen

Ps.
Switch IX/H15 is on