cleoni

Hi,
your site is not using Simplest Gallery at all.

You can easily tell by accessing to the page source (usually CTRL+U on PC) and searching for the string: simplest

Perhaps you have not activated it? Or some other plugin is preventing Simplest Gallery to run?

The ugly way your theme is rendering the gallery is exactly the reason why I have developed Simplest Gallery… ??

I know the issue – at panelSecure they are using a “compatible” webserver which delivers great speed but requires some specific settings for WordPress to work correctly.

In particular, this line of htaccess:

RewriteRule . index.php [L]

will need to be edited like this for WordPress to work:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1/ [PT,L]

as they stat it in their support FAQ.

It’s pretty ugly, I know, but the change needs to be done just once, and the performance is not bad for the very cheap price.

Hello,
unfortunately optimization plugins can merge javascripts in the wrong order, creating unexpected behaviours.

If Booster Pack allows it with some advanced option, you can try forcing the original working order of the javascripts so the correct behaviour is preserved.
Also, you could try other optimization plugins – I never used Booster Pack but I have used another (Autoptimize by Frank Goossens) and it did work correctly with the builtin lightbox.
Right now I have activated it on https://simplestgallery.com enabling JS/CSS/HTML optimization and with this simple operation I instantly produced an improvement on Google Pagespeed from score 35 to 44.

Sorry for late reply, hope it can help!

Hi there!
I’m the author of Simplest Gallery. I am sorry to see there is this problem, I would like to help to seek a solution. a couple of advices:

1. try different plugins and see if others work best in your specific case
It’s quite common that optimization plugins assemble scripts in a way that some side effects appear. Most cool functionalities such as galleries, fancy effects etc. are implemented using jquery scripts, sites often load more versions of jquery and they might have conflicts. The scripts behaviour can change even if one changes loading order (that is, if I load script 2 before script 1 they are not guaranteed to work as if they load in original order 1-2). In most sites of mine, I have I tried several optimizations plugin and in some of them I even ended up disabling all of them. From here my first advice is: try different plugins and see if others work best in your specific case – please note that it is not the plugin’s author’s fault as he cannot test all existing plugins’ and scripts’ combinations.

2. check source of before/after and see where the problem is
It would be interesting to see what is the page source before and after the apply of speed booster pack. If for example it turns out that the speed boost alters scripts loading order, then there could be some fix that can be applied in Simplest Gallery to force the specific order. This is of course just an idea, but it eventually will lead to a soution. Please note that this will imply understanding of how the various scripts loading work, so a skilled developer might be needed.

Hope it helps,

The mentioned message was not related to this plugin.
It is triggered by “Jquery Cycle Slideshow for SImplest Gallery”: since it is an addon for Simplest Gallery, it complains if you uninstall the main plugin first.

You should not install things if you don’t understand what you’re doing.

You could have posted the question in the support section, it would be easily solved in minutes.

Hello,
as you can see by inspecting https://www.simplestgallery.com everyting still works with WP 5.02.

I simply need to refresh the README file.

Enjoy!

Cris

Hi there, the gallery types you can use are listed on https://simplestgallery.com and they do not include a mosaic gallery yet.

But if you see that a mosaic gallery jquery plugin is freely available on the net, I can easily write a mosaic gallery addon so that it’s supported by Simplest Gallery too.

I googled a bit and found a mosaic gallery plugin which is copyrighted/paid, but there might be others.

Hello,
the white screen is hiding an error message, and it’s quite likely that which is not actually an out of memory, but some sort of code compatibility issue due to PHP 7.2, I have never tested Simplest Gallery under that php version.

A few hints/workarounds:

– Diagnose the problem by temporarily adding these two lines inside wp-config. Seeing the exact reason of the white screen is important to ensure it’s not due to other causes.

@ini_set('display_errors', 'on');
@error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_WARNING & ~E_STRICT & ~E_DEPRECATED); 

– If it’s a code compatibility issue, and using PHP 7.2 is not crucial to you, you can solve it by switching back to PHP 5.6, usually web providers allow you to choose which PHP version to use

I will test the plugin under PHP 7.2 as soon as possible and possibly release a new version if it helps.

Hi bert2bert, I’m sorry I have taken a look at your site perhaps too late.

Currently, the gallery displayed on the linked page is implemented using the “Unite gallery Lite 1.7.43”. So the labels and CSS behavour are controlled by that plugin.

Simplest Gallery appears to be installed on your site, but the above plugin does take precedence.

If you want to give Simplest Gallery a try, you could disable temporarily Unite Gallery and then let me have a look at what happens. I will check in short this time.

best regards,

Hello, please post a link to a page so that I can check the page styles.

Is this template you are using freely available?

Thanks Tony! I appreciate that!

Since I got no replies I assume the issue is solved so closing the ticket. in case of need, just re-post.

Hi @decio,
on the official site https://www.simplestgallery.com you can see that the custom CSS feature is working.
Open https://www.simplestgallery.com then view the page source (CTRL-U or Command-U) and you can locate this code:

<style type="text/css">
.customclass {
color:#aabbcc;
}
</style>

this has been entered in the Custom CSS field in the settings.

Therefore, by using the same procdeure on your site you should see your custom CSS code. If not, then the problem is likely that the class or id specifier in your CSS code is wrong.
But if the custom CSS code cannot be found on your site, then yes, surely there’s something that is not working.

Please, post a link to your site and paste your custom code so that I can check and verify.

I have seen the page, but the gallery therein is made with a software called prettyPhoto which is not produced by SimplestGallery.
If you right-click the first photo and then select Inspect on your browser, you get this snippet:

<a href="https://portugalalerta.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/j-santos.jpg" rel="<strong>prettyPhoto[gallery_1]</strong>">

If your theme has a built-in system to make a gallery, such as in this case, SimplestGallery has no effect.

One could modify the theme behaviour and exclude its gallery-rendering features, then you can give galleries a different look using Simplest Gallery or another plugin, but this requires some coding skill.

My advice is to contact the developers of your theme to have them fix the problem on the prettyPhoto gallery, or alternatively to ask them how to disable this feature so you can use Simplest Galllery for rendering them.

I’m closing the ticket, if you need further help just re-write.

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

Hi goncalofreitas,
what you mention is not a common behaviour.

As you can see on https://simplestgallery.com and related demo sites everything happens normally within the same page.

So it is necessary that you include a link to a page where a gallery can be tried out, and also let me know if the problem happens on all smartphones, or only to specific (eg. Apple…)