generalnumpty

Thank you for your furtherer explanation on how the gallery is rendered.

Your plugin may be fine as far as lazy loading is concerned – I didn’t see any layout issues due to it.

One last thing if I re activate my lazy loading plug-in, is that going to slow down that page as they both fight each other, and it seems that my lazy plug in is overriding yours.
I can live with the dancing thumbnails and will do some Page speed instghts to test.

Thank you for your time (and patience ) its fantastic to find a plug in that is so well supported

To explain further I have lots of foobox gallerys that after moving from http to https, flag up mixed content warnings, also do not load properly until a page refresh (they should be justified).
Also I have another issue with using their lightbox (foobox) in that on a mobile phone the close X does not close the lighbox but instead opens the image that is sitting directly under the X unless you do a long press.
I am getting nowhere with any help from foobox so decided to install a stand-alone lightbox. And a different gallery (yours) I set up a test page so that when I happy with everything I will swap out all my gallery’s.

Then found myself in trouble as your gallery comes with a light box but I cannot get it to work with the foo gallerys, so need to keep the 3rd party lightbox for them until for the time being. But the final aim would be to just use photonic for everything.

I think I was writing at same time as you posted-so this was not intended as a reply to your last post.

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Every image has to be fully fetched for Photonic to be able to render the galleries, because balancing the widths and heights of the columns / rows requires the true image sizes. If you have a different lazy loading plugin, it treats each photo in isolation and doesn’t account for the gallery as a whole. As a result it might appear that each photo is being lazy loaded, but then when it comes to rendering the gallery in totality, you might see the page displayed initially with one layout and then suddenly popping into place once the images have been downloaded.

Ah yes that is exactly what I have been seeing “dancing” thumbnails. Thank you for helping me understand.
Now you mention it, I do indeed very briefly see a box with a lazy load spinner when I first land on the page I thought it was not working because I expected to see spinners on each thumbnail as the page is scrolled which is my understanding of the lazyload concept..

So you didn’t put in the code change? But how is this very different from having PhotoSwipe from both plugins activated?

Sorry I don’t quite understand the question – its my fault trying to do too many things at once. No I did not use the code. But instead found a way to stop the 3rd party plug operating on that page via some options on its settings.

Thank you for your continued help. I am afraid that I am now getting out of my depth here now and do not feel confident to dive in too deep.
A fix I have been able to do is stop my other lightbox plugin fron working on that page. Instead of trying to stop it via the settings in Photonic.

I have deactivated the A3 lazy load to test. You say that there is lazy loading baked into your plugin, but I do not see it working and the whole page and gallery seems to load when i first land on the page.

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I have disabled the lazy load plug in but still getting website menus become un-clickable after looking at the gallery in lighbox until the page is refreshed. On my a new test page. Android phone and pc.

Also I do not now see any lazy load indications on the images as I scroll down the gallery on on the images in the photonic gallery with my lazy load plug in disabled. I tested after clearing phone cache or refreshing the pc page.

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I have a plug in called a3 Lazy Load. For use on my Foo gallerys

Sorry yes I was fiddling. I have now set Photonic → Settings → Generic Options → Generic Settings → Don’t include third-party lightbox scripts.

But my website menus become un-clickable after looking at the gallery in lighbox until the page is refreshed.

The firs masonary gallery on the “a test” page is a Photonic one
Thank you for your help.

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If you can stand by I will “flash it on here for 1 min and then delete.
Thank you for your patience.

Ok a couple ot tests. If I do this while using Fancybox3 then every image over the whole of my site disappears. Photonic → Settings → Generic Options → Generic Settings → Don’t include third-party lightbox scripts,

I can not seem to find any combo option to get everyone to play nice

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Sorry for the delay. I will re-test.

THANK YOU Arno. That did it. I see that you have even updated the description to take care of nunpty’s like me (hence my user name) it would be even better and clearer if the description was https://mysite.example/wp-admin/post.php?post=12345&action=edit. The 12345 is the ID

Thank you for your help, I will try it later and report back.

Is there an email address that I can send you my URL to privately

This is prohibited as per the forum guidelines and can get you moderated (or even banned) – I know, because I had my wrist slapped at one point of time for this.
Sorry Newbe Here

This will load Photonic’s core scripts and include all the specialized calls that it needs to make to PhotoSwipe. Your site will then rely on the lightbox from elsewhere. However, as it states on the option setting, you will have to work with the support team for the other plugin to resolve any issues at that point as it goes beyond the scope of Photonic.

I have tested this and the other plug in is not loading and the included photoswipe one is.
But from what I think you have said that was suposed to stop photoswipe and let the already plugged in lightbox take over.
If I use your included swipebox with the above set up then the Photonic gallery disappears from my site.

Yes I have seen the problems with disabling my lightbox plug in and doing this (Photonic → Settings → Generic Options → Generic Settings → Photonic Lightbox for non-Photonic Images). I have been through them all and seen that some work on pc and not with a mobile. Your description of possible issues has helped me learn.

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Yes there does seem to be a conflict going on.
Odd thing is that if I choose “image lightbox” from your inbuilt lighboxes then the Photonic gallery does not use that one at all but it uses my already plugged in “lightbox with Photoswipe” by Arno.

Will that mean that the page is still running two lighbox scripts and so will cause the page to be slower or possible other upsets on different devices?.

How can I fully disable all of the Photonic bundled ones and just use the plug in I already have.
Is there an email address that I can send you my URL to privately

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