steerpike58

I see this in another post “Although deprecated, if you want to update the plugin without updating php, you can download the plugin as a zip file and install it by rewriting “Requires PHP: 8.0” in the readme.txt to your version.”

I just followed this – I downloaded the file, edited readme.txt and changed php 80 reference to say php 74, and uploaded the directory. I was then able to install / activate the plugin! Never heard of using a ‘readme.txt’ to actually configure something before but … it worked.

Now I need to learn how to use it.

NOTE – if you don’t actually require PHP 8.0, I think it would be a great idea to change that requirement because I see LOTS of users having issues getting WP working with php 8.

• This reply was modified 5 months ago by steerpike58.

I have a similar problem. My host does support PHP 8 (I can choose 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3) but WordPress itself isn’t clear on the support status of PHP; only PHP 7.4 is fully supported. I tried setting PHP on my host to 8.x (all versions) and none of them worked with my WP installation. So I had to reset back to 7.4, and thus, I can’t use this plugin.

Thanks for responding. Sorry, I’m still confused. I should further add, I’m working on a self-hosted site (at release 6.5.4) as well as a wordpress.com site (using the new wordpress.com site as a way to look at a fresh environment without all the baggage of my 10+ year old self-hosted environment), and they present different options for the ‘homepage’. On my self-hosted site, I have a different set of options for ‘homepage’ under settings/reading. Hopefully a couple of screen-shots pasted side-by-side below will help explain:

Note that on the right hand version (self-hosted), There are two choices initially – ‘your latest posts’ OR, ‘a static page’. That is a choice I can understand, if it just ended there – ‘posts’ OR ‘static page’.

But, if you choose ‘a static page’, THEN you get two further things to specify – ‘Homepage’ and ‘Posts page’. But you just said you didn’t want ‘your latest posts’, so what’s the reason for ‘posts page’ being there – surely, ‘posts page’ is the same thing as ‘your latest posts’?

So my very FUNDAMENTAL first question is this – On the internet in general, there can only be ONE entity (I’ll avoid the word ‘page’ as it seems to mean something special in WP) displayed when a user visits ‘mywebsite.com’ – that’s the ‘home page’ in casual terms. Now, for WordPress sites, this ‘home page’ (the entity that is displayed when no further qualification other than ‘mywebsite.com’ is given) can be EITHER – a ‘static page’ (static content) or a ‘Posts page’ (a page that shows the ever-changing content of your blog). But it can’t be both; it must be one or the other.

So what is the purpose, in the above settings, to show both a ‘homepage’ and a ‘posts page’ option as if both exist concurrently? I understand that you could, for example, have a ‘static’ home page as the response for the base url (‘mywebsite.com’), and a posts page with a more qualified url (‘mywebsite.com/blogs‘, for example) – but you can only have one ‘thing’ displayed if the user only types in ‘mywebsite.com’.

I’ve read that there’s a lot of confusion with WordPress because it was initially designed as a blogging tool, and displaying blog posts was the ‘standard’. A lot of themes and templates were created that assumed that the home page would be a sequence of blogs. Then along came ‘static pages’. To me, what would make more sense would be a simple choice – ‘what do you want your homepage to be?’ – a simple static page, or a ‘page of posts’? Then have a template that is best applied to static pages, and a template that is best applied to a ‘page of posts’. I note that in the current ‘theme’ I’m playing with (Bute), the ‘Front Page Template’ is more like a page than a template (or perhaps, it’s a combo or hybrid?). I didn’t have to build a ‘page’ at all, just edit the template (but shouldn’t I be editing pages, and then applying templates for ‘appearance’?). Is this all about keeping things simple for non-technical users?

Putting it another way – WordPress let’s you create ‘pages’. The block editor is very powerful and lets you create static pages, pages full of blog contents, pages full of blog headings, etc. Why doesn’t the main ‘settings’ page simply ask – “what page do you want to be the default” (when the user just enters ‘mywebsite.com’)? You tell it what page, and you are done. And then, you can pick whatever template you want to ‘control’ that page. What I also don’t understand is, I see things like (for the index template, as an example) “Used as a fallback template for all pages when a more specific template is not defined.” Surely, EVERY page has a template assigned by default (‘Pages’), and you can’t delete a template from a page if you wanted to, so how can you ever have a situation where a ‘more specific template is not defined’?

Sorry, this has ended up being a long ramble … hopefully you can get my meaning!

Sorry that I missed your reply a couple of months ago, and I got busy with other projects. But I’m back now to looking at this so I would appreciate your continued assistance.

You said (sorry, I don’t know how to make this show up as a ‘quoted block’ in the editor here, so I’ll just ‘bold’ it):

Quote: Once you connect your JetPack to a WordPress.com account, your self-hosted WordPress (aka www.remarpro.com) site becomes available for full management at WordPress.com. You can create/edit posts/pages, install new plugins and themes, etc… all from WordPress.com… just like any real WordPress.com site.

This sounds awesome! But I’m confused. I’ve since set up not only a wordpress.com (shorthand: wp.com) account, but also, a wp.com site (myTestSite.wp.com). So – at this point, I have (mytestsite.wp.com) and (mySelf-HostedSite.com). The wp.com site is ‘perfect’ in the way it hooks into google photos, without even touching ‘jetpack’ – when I want to load an image, GP is right there as an alternate media source (as your image above shows). If I can use that interface to creates posts on ‘mySelfHostedSite.com’, that sounds great! But – how do I link ‘mySelfHostedSite.com’ to wp.com, and how do I differentiate between the two sites when editing/etc? And can I still go directly to mySelfHostedSite.com to do admin, if I want – that is, is the wp.com interface optional?

Quote: And JetPack’s Google Photos integration only works when editing your www.remarpro.com site from WordPress.com. That’s where the connection sits. But any Google Photos image you insert is copied and uploaded to your standard WordPress hosting server, making it available in the standard WordPress media library (even when editing your site from the standard WordPress dashboard on your own domain).

This sounds perfect! Please give me more details about how to integrate mySelfHostedSite.com into wp.com!

so it would appear, in summary, that even after creating a wp.com account, jetpack is not really what I’m looking for.

i just installed the Nextgen gallery plugin, and it claims to be just what I need. However, I see nothing new at all after install when composing a new page or post. I have the latest wp, 6 4 3, and recent php – 7.4.33 – so I’m starting to think I need to look more closely at my GoDaddy server setup.

I’m stuck away from home without my own pc or laptop so struggling to get images uploaded either on my phone or on a public access pc.

Thanks for the info. I don’t mind creating a WP.com account if that’s the best way to go, but it does seem that JetPack is a very wide-ranging solution that may be overkill for my needs.

I see that the search results above yield a few answers that refer to Google Drive, not Google Photos; I presume Google Drive includes the photo repository structure. I’ve used Google Drive for files/applications, but never bothered to explore photos through Google Drive since the ‘Photos’ function has always been satisfactory.

I will pursue a few entries from the search results, and take it from there.

Any thoughts, anyone?

I’m now on a desktop computer again, in Chrome browser. I’m trying to create a post with images. If I choose ‘image’, I have the options ‘upload’, ‘media library’, and ‘insert from URL’ (nothing new here). Upload only looks at the local file system. Media library just looks at already uploaded files. ‘URL’ just lets me paste a URL. So nothing to do with Google Photos. In the upper right corner, I see a ‘jetpack’ symbol. This offers me two options, ‘social previews’ and ‘likes and sharing’. The former offers to preview how things will look on social media, the latter offers “Activate the Sharing feature to allow others to share your posts.” Still nothing related to pulling images from my GP account. So I’m still basically stuck.

EDIT – Reading this site – https://jetpack.com/support/why-the-wordpress-com-connection-is-important-for-jetpack/ – suggests I do need a WP.com account even if I’m self-hosted, but – it gives a long list of features that do and do not work with / without the WP.com account. NEITHER list mentions a link to google photos, specifically, that I can see – so I’m not sure whether I need a WP.com account or not. All I want to do it have the ability to create a post and pull an image from my Google Photos account …

• This reply was modified 7 months, 3 weeks ago by steerpike58.
• This reply was modified 7 months, 3 weeks ago by steerpike58.

i just installed the jetpack plugin. It offers many things in settings but I cannot find anything remotely associated with linking my Google photos account. I looked in media, composing, writing etc. Can you give me a pointer? All I want to do is be able to pull an image from GP when composing a post. Thanks!

UPDATE – I found nothing in settings, but when I went to post an image I did see an option for ‘cloud media app’ and that then allowed me to choose my Google photos account. I can now choose an image from Google photos, but the upload times out and gives me a JSON error. However … If I return to the post, the image is there. So it looks like I’m finally able to post images from Google photos.

I would note that Even before installing jetpack, I was able to choose images from google photos albums, which logically means the link to Google photos was there, somehow… But I guess that will have to remain a mystery until I get home and in front of the decent computer again

• This reply was modified 7 months, 3 weeks ago by steerpike58.

ok, I’ll install the jetpack plugin and try that. Can you explain how the jetpack plugin relates to the jetpack android app?

I understand that on a Desktop browser, I only have access to the plugin but on my android phone I will have access to the plugin AND the app, so how do they relate?

If I don’t install/use the android app, will I be limited in what I can do?

So the jetpack plug-in adds functionality to the site, and is that functionality available then from both a browser (desktop) and from my Android phone? Do I need to install the android app to take advantage of the plugin features, or are they independent?

Does anyone know how I’m CURRENTLY able to view my GP content on my phone, but not access it when on a desktop? Since I’m on the phone that took the photos, it’s a bit confusing because I can access my photos directly on the ‘device’, but – I can also view ‘Albums’ created within GP, so I’m pretty sure it’s pulling from GP and not the local device (DCIM).

I looked at the Jetpack plugin (app, on Android) and it looked like it wanted to fully take over / replace the WP app, so I declined.