Very promising, few questions

  • This plugin might be just what we were looking for, but there are a few things that don’t seem to be working for us. Either that, or it’s just not part of its functionality. We’re hoping you can clarify!

    1. Titles and descriptions both show up on thumbnails but only titles show up on images in the lightbox. Is it possible to change that? We would like the option to have only titles OR descriptions show on the thumbnails (since titles are cut off if we add text for both on small images) and only descriptions show in lightbox (not titles). Currently descriptions don’t show in lightbox. Can we change that?

    2. We added a gallery title but it doesn’t show up in the blog post or anywhere except where we add it to the gallery on the back end.

    3. The background color and border size and color don’t seem to have any visible affect on our gallery.

    4. Does this plugin create additional copies of images used in galleries, and if so, how many and where are they stored on the server? I couldn’t find any, which is awesome, but just wanted to make sure. We’ve tried several gallery plugins that create several additional copies of every image used in a gallery and we simply don’t have space on our server for that.

    Hoping you can shed some light on our questions. We’re hopeful this gallery plugin might be “The one!” Can’t believe how easy it is to build a gallery, and the feature to dynamically resize images is brilliant.

    Carrie @ Two Small Potatoes

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  • Hi Carrie,

    thanks for such detailed review. I’ll try to address all your comments and questions:

    1) this is a good point and I’ve added the new feature for the next release

    2) that shouldn’t happen at all, can you send me the URL where I can see it? Also please have a look at the browser console and reports errors and messages. My email is [email protected]

    3) see 2)

    4) yes, that’s necessary as resizing an image on the fly is very slow and it would make the gallery useless. Images are cached and stored in: wp-content/plugins/photoblocks-grid-gallery/public/cache

    Hoping you can shed some light on our questions. We’re hopeful this gallery plugin might be “The one!” Can’t believe how easy it is to build a gallery, and the feature to dynamically resize images is brilliant.

    thank you, really appreciate it

    Cheers,
    Diego

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by GreenTreeLabs.
    Thread Starter Two Small Potatoes

    (@carpebean)

    Hey Diego,

    Thanks for your response.

    1) Cool! We’ll keep our eyes peeled for future updates. Any idea when that might be?

    2 & 3) Unfortunately we already disabled the plugin and are now using something different, at least until we can find a permanent gallery solution that fills all of our needs. I was pretty sure I at least took screenshots of the weirdness on our site with the galleries, but I guess not. If we enable it again later and still have problems, I’ll definitely send you screenshots and any error messages from the browser console.

    4) That makes sense, and it’s definitely how most of the gallery plugins operate. I definitely understand that about the site speed. I thought that Jetpack Carousel didn’t create additional thumbnails, but I guess I’m not positive. We’re now using another native WP gallery plugin also and it doesn’t seem to create additional thumbnails, though it’s possible I just haven’t found where they’re stored on our server. So far, adding galleries with this other plugin hasn’t increased our server space usage, which is ideal. Thanks for clarifying where your plugin stores the thumbnails.

    5) One more question: is your plugin compatible with other gallery plugins, or do you know? We’re looking for a gallery plugin for about 3/4 of our photos that will be lightweight, super easy to use, and visual (like yours), but we also need a second gallery plugin that generates shortcodes and offers e-commerce and watermarking. Is your plugin compatible with galleries like Photo Gallery by Web Dorado, Envira, and FooGallery?

    Thanks again! Looking forward to your future release. ??

    Carrie @ Two Small Potatoes

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