gsfergusson

I just updated to 3.58, and inserting a thumbnail into a post is still broken. A full sized image is inserted instead. The only way to get the thumbnail in the post is to copy the url of the thumb prior to insertion and replacing the url in the post. Tedious, but it works. Would really like to have the old original behavior back again!

Well, 3.56 came out today and the problem is partially but not fully fixed. The changelog says “Fixed: Inserting NextGEN singlepic from the Add Media popup was creating an without a src attribute.” True, inserting a singlepic (or full size pic) works, but inserting a thumbnail actually inserts a full sized pic, not a thumbnail.

I’ll stay with version 3.56 even if this problem isn’t fully fixed. The full sized pic can be resized, but it’s still not a thumbnail.

Thanks Guys! Keep trying!

That’s a disappointment. Thanks for the heads up @ngardens!

It appears the problem started with version 3.50. I rolled back to version 3.41 and everything is working.

Thanks Mailpoet!

Same error occurred on one of my Mailpoet installations this morning. I’ve got Mailpoet running on 2 other sites and they’re fine. I tried reinstalling, no help.

Thanks for taking the time to look into this. The simplelightbox indeed works, though I don’t like it as much as the fancybox. I do hope you keep it!

We’re trying to make the switch to the block editor. It’s happening slowly… Even if/when we use the block editor, we’ve got to switch back to Classic to insert a NextGEN singlepic. That’s an annoyance.

Will try the Custom HTML trick.

Also trying to talk the people in charge of money to purchase NextGEN so we can have access to all that other neat stuff but it’s hard convincing small non-profits to spend hard to come by money.

Thanks again!

I published the page. I’ll leave it up for a while:

https://whitefieldlibrary.org/play-page/

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OK, I added the thumbnail and link to PDF using the block editor. Previewing and clicking on the thumbnail produces the same problem, the PDF doesn’t display, it gets loaded into a lightbox and displays gibberish.

It generated this code:

<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><a href="https://whitefieldlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/summerBINGO.pdf"><img src="https://whitefieldlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/summerBINGO-791x1024.png" alt="" width="198" height="256" /></a></figure>

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• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).

We’ve been using the Classic Editor with the Classic Editor plugin Version 1.6.2 by WordPress Contributors on both sites where we’ve had this problem. I’ve never gotten used to the Block Editor though I’ve begun to play around with it some…

To insert the thumbnail I use the “Add Media” button, select the thumbnail image, and then link it to a custom URL pointing to the PDF file.

We’re using NextGEN Version 3.26

I will try using the Block Editor to reproduce this problem!

And ironically, the above link works fine on this site which probably doesn’t have the NextGEN plugin installed ??

Hi! Thanks for the response.

On ONE site I’m using PDF Embedder Version 4.6.4 by WP PDF Embedder Team, on the other site I’m not. This same problem persists on both sites so I don’t think the PDF Embedder is to blame.

Further testing shows that setting NextGEN’s Lightbox setting to Fancybox and “Try to apply to all images that link to image files” resolves the issue. However, the problem when NextGEN’s Lightbox setting is set to Fancybox and “Only apply to NextGEN and WordPress images” persists.

Here’s an example link that results in the PDF file being loaded into the lightbox rather than being displayed as a PDF when Lightbox is set to only NextGEN and WordPress images:

<a href="https://whitefieldlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/SummerReadingChallenge.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://whitefieldlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/summerBINGO-232x300.png" /></a>

So this workaround I’ve discovered helps for now, but I’ve had issues in the past when setting the Lightbox setting to anything but “NextGEN and WordPress images” so we’ll see. The Fancybox lightbox doesn’t work at all when the Lightbox setting is set to “Apply only to NextGEN images” but I think this is a known issue.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).

Thanks! That fixed it.

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• This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by gsfergusson.

I got this one:

PHP Fatal error: Can’t use method return value in write context in /var/www/clarylake/www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/theme-my-login/admin/extensions.php on line 175,

Broke my admin pages but the site still worked. I had to remove the Theme My Login plugin directory to recover. I’m using PHP 5.4.45

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• This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by gsfergusson.

It Verks!