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Eventually I was able to clear the SGoptimizer plugin cache, reset the plugin settings, etc. and the problem now seems to be fixed. Definitely not a browser issue, but the plugin bad behavior somehow, caching or settings… unfortunately I cannot be more specific. Presumably other plugins could do the same… ??

Thank you: trying the Health Check plugin was the perfect advice! My hosting site optimizer plugin appears to the culprit! (SiteGround’s SGoptimizer plugin).

I see the same (bad) behavior when I activate the 2020 theme, just for new post with the problematic gallery. Older posts look fine. And I created a new post with a 3 column gallery with 2020 active, and it has the same behavior: all image thumbnails appear in a single column.

Does not look like a straightforward solution intended for non-programming admins and editors!

I will continue to hope for someone to develop and share a packaged fix for this annoying change to WP.

Actually I think links to this bug, (your link is to a possibly related bug dealing with thumbnails linking to the lower resolution files in the media library):
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/10173

Keeping my fingers crossed re: being able to set the image link default value!!!

I have the same need and agree with Kevin Linden’s interpretation of the original question/issue.

Several Lightbox plugins create a full size image lightbox display for existing basic WP Galleries, but require that the the gallery link be set to media file.

I want my Simple Lightbox plugin to be active/enabled for all my WP galleries.

With recent updates, I must change every new gallery link value to media file in order for the Lightbox plugin to work for that gallery.

And of course I frequently forget to do this… I want to change the default value from “none” to “Media File”.

With previous versions of WordPress we were able to modify the default value by editing https://sitename/wp-admin/options.php, but this no longer works (when I look at options.php ‘image_default_link_type’ is set to “file”, but the default for all images & galleries is “none”).

Simple Lightbox does works for me if remember to set each new WP Gallery link setting!

The default in WP 5 changed to “none” and to use Lightbox the value must be changed to “Media File” for each new gallery.

I am unable to change the default setting using instructions to set via the dashboard Settings –> Options image-link value: it makes no difference if set to “file” or “Media File” nothing changes).

Simple Lightbox stopped working on my sight when I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress … dashboard shows this plugin as “not tested” with version 5.0.3

Another “me too” SiteGround hosted, Weaver Xtreme, get six lines per day in the php error log:
PHP Warning: Division by zero in /home/ptartist/public_html/wp-content/plugins/clicky/frontend/class-clicky-visitor-graph.php on line 249, deactivating Clicky until I hear solution or good reason to allow this error.

Good plan ??

FYI I just noticed that the Postie success message for my test did NOT display the email subject line (of Test postie 1.8.7), but has empty single quotes:

Your post ” has been successfully published to Corvidae Press <https://www.corvidaepress.com/wp/test-postie-1-8-7/&gt;.

OK! all seems well with Postie 1.8.7 using Socket: it now connects on my host & processed/published my quick email test: thank you!

Did not try cURL.

Thank you!

OK, thank you!

I am ignorant of the ettiquette for WP plugins: I did not expect settings to be retained after uninstalling a plugin.

For my continuing education: are plugin settings stored in the WP database?

Thanks! Also have you been able to figure out the issue with the new version of Postie?