The Art Monkey

OPA! Thank you!

I did a test of the update/add ability and it seems to be working as previously now.

I was able to take an existing gallery and in one upload – update existing photos and ADD new photos as I expected.

Looks good so far and I’ll keep you posted if anything new develops THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Art

Hey Opa – just want to add that the importing updating in general seems borked. I went and did a full checked and what I THOUGHT was happening (updates) was actually not happening despite the messages saying ‘successful’. It looks like it’s saying it’s updating but the images are not being updated.

I was able to update the photos manually from inside the gallery itself and through the individual image but the mass import and update is not seemingly working at the moment.

Thank you! That was exactly it but you knew that already.

This was all on me since I saw this pop up BEFORE writing you…

https://i.postimg.cc/x1Cfqccz/note.jpg

Thing is, I didn’t pay any attention to it and when I went BACK to the albums I saw that you anticipated the moment already!! You are so good!

THANK YOU OPA!

Hope all is well!

-Art

SOLVED by Opa (not me)

Solution was I was loading too many thumbnails into one page in my gallery. I changed the setting

Set the page size to 100 on Photo albums -> Settings -> Basic settings -> Thumbnails ->I -> Item 11 Page size

Previously I was loading up over 400 thumbnails at once and it was choking out WPPA and WordPress.

OPA DID IT AGAIN!

Thank you Opa!

-Art

Adding some more details I sent in response to your ideas! You mentioned caching the pages and you were right! I did have WP Rocket caching happening. I turned it off on that page. I turned it off, cleared all the caches on WPPA and WP Rocket. I also renewed the album encrypting (which is set to renew every month).

Thing is – I am still getting the same error on that particular album. To be clear the album crypt is new, the page is not cached (outside of any caching WPPA does) and I tried on a few browsers.

Is there some other thing I should reset or perhaps try?

-Art

OH MY GOD!! I almost cried when I read that title. WPPA is so awesome. Thank goodness it’s coming back ASAP!

Solved and thank you Opa for the fix!! Appreciate it as always!

-Art

PS I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WPPA and I plan on using it as long as possible. IT’s been my gallery go to for over 10 years!

YES!

Will do – new main incoming to you in a few minutes!

Thanks Opa!

Yeah, that’s exactly what I was thinking about. So, the current situation is I used a plugin (PatreonPro by Codebard) to distinguish between a paying and non paying customer. I checked and it doesn’t seem to add any new user level. I think it does some internal magic and flags users itself. Additionally, I have to set certain pages to ‘patron/paying’ only. So it seems there is a combination with the plugin that looks at pages I flagged plus the current user and allows content to be viewed or blocked.

One thing to consider is the whole Patreon thing is a dynamic relationship. That is, people come and go. If they decide to opt out they are still members of the site but cannot access member areas. So we end up back at this issue of how to tell who is who.

I’m not asking for you to address all that! haha I’m just walking through what I believe is the process. One interesting thing is the plugin has people use their patron login instead of a site login. They come to my site, ‘log in with Patreon’ and then they are given access to pages I have marked. Again, I checked the user database and it doesn’t look like there are any specific user flags that are set.

I don’t think there’s a lot to do about it – at least in my site’s current state. I did a check and it looks like going to a ‘regular non-patron’ gallery page and entering (something like)

https:// www. my-site-name. com/open-gallery/?wppa-occur=1

will toss up a page of all the galleries that are not hidden. From there it basically will allow a user to browse for any gallery (paid or not) and open it. I realize WPPA is not really setup for this kind of stuff so I think at this point I will look at other workarounds. If I could flag the users better as subscribed or not subscribed that would be awesome but I think that might be beyond my abilities.

My last possibility is to install a separate gallery viewer to prevent the cross linking I’m seeing above. That would be a last resort but it would solve the problem. WPPA for the main gallery and some other viewer for the other galleries.

I’ll keep thinking about this!

-Art

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by The Art Monkey.

Ah ok! I see why it worked but it only is a solution for me.

My hope was that I prevent others from using the error page BUT still allow the album to be visible to regular patron and views with non-admin privileges. As it stands – the hidden setting solves the issue but only for people with admin privileges.

When I set the album to hidden they disappear for all other users and this means my paying patrons AND my non paying patrons are locked out. I was looking for a solution that stopped only my regular nonpaying WordPress visitors.

NO worries and thank you for the time!!! I will keep considering ideas! Your idea was helpful!!

-Art

WHOA! that did it! THANK YOU!

I already had ?Enable cryptic links and Refuse unencrypted set but I made the Albums “hidden” and it basically solved the problem.

Can I ask what the hidden setting is doing? I mean, I can still see everything fine in the gallery under normal viewing. The album is there even though it’s ‘hidden’. It’s only when I try to do the workaround and look at the gallery through the error page that it goes away. Basically it does EXACTLY what I would hope it does.

Is the album hidden from alternate linking or something like that?

-Art

Awesome and did the temp CSS fix and it works. To be clear – the font increased in the comment reply area but the already published comments remained in the small font (which is a related thing). Is it possible to increase that size also with user input?

Thanks again Opa! Stellar work and response as usual!

-Art

Thank you so much for the fix Opa! It’s working now and I appreciate your time on this one!

YOU DID IT!!!

-Art

Whoops! Wrong thread! Sorry!

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by The Art Monkey.