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Odd behavior on “Tweet” button when viewing images in Microsoft Edge (Win 10 testing platform).
Most likely an odd issue with the useless Edge web-browser itself, as it doesn’t appear to be any issue on others tested (IE11, FireFox, and Chrome, etc).
However, has anyone else noticed, when displaying the gallery image popup, with the social bar below the description, the “Tweet” button is actually flickering. As it cycles over and over calling it repeatedly? It’s actually repeating calls to Twitter every 200ms or less.
Your observation is right it does that but it’s supposed to stop once it loads and has a width. It’s part of the previous twitter button fix. Sometimes I see it flash once or twice but that’s it. Is the Edge available for windows 7? I don’t have access to it otherwise. If you help me test it I can target that browser differently to avoid the flickering.
Microsoft Edge is Windows 10 only I believe. It’s however terrible at the moment, so I don’t suggest too much effort into fixing/patching if it’s not affecting anyone else? I’m pretty sure it’s the browser itself. I can still run “iexplore.exe” (IE11) as it keeps your previous Operating System (Win 7) as “Windows.old” while still on Win 10 and that worked fine. I don’t personally use it, but cross-browser compatibility test.
Unless I install Win 10 I’m not going to be able to play with it: http://www.quora.com/Can-I-download-Microsoft-Edge-for-my-Windows-8-1-laptop
I’m not yet ready to upgrade. So I’m not sure what do to. 
Just coming back to this to confirm it’s fixed in Version: 2.8.2, no longer any issues! 
Yeah I played around with it a little bit, thanks for confirming.
hi there i am using your plugin image grid on one of my sites and i have noticed the plugin is quite demanding on the hosting server. I had to change to siteground because hostgater was limiting my site. i get a few hundreds visits per day so i wanted to reach out and ask you if this is normal and how i can reduce server load? i am using on a few pages on the site.
here is one page link to my site:
http://crossdressersociety.com/crossdresser-shop/high-heels-men-size-11thank you.
Mark
Hostgator is not recommended anyway. Well I have about 500 visits per day and the server is just fine, barely using the resources it says. I use CloudFlare (free CDN), you could start with that it’s very good. Also, decrease thumbnail quality in JIG from 90 to about 70. Use Load More feature to split galleries into batches of ~50.
hello it would be very nice of you that you helped us make a presentation, a horizontal grid wall carousel with arrows on the sides where you can go moving pictures, without expanding.
automatically call the shots while moving fence, and so one saves space by not calling the albumnes vertically.
It would be good to take these suggestions for an update.
Horizontal scroll is already on the to-do, but I’m not sure when it will be included in an update.
I said something, as we designed in Photoshop. http://prntscr.com/83g6po you could do a kind of “horizontal grid wall carousel” where one can call an album of fb or some other social network. because the galleries are always vortex and I think that much space and design can damage the style.
That looks very much like the slider from “duotive three” theme, but not sure if the successors have it or duotive 3 is still updated. It was actually one of the things that inspired me when I created JIG in the first place. But yeah I had something like this in mind too. I understand this feature exists in other solutions but they don’t have JIG’s backend. What do you mean by “vortex”?
perhaps poorly I translated certain things (vortex not,he would say vertical), but the idea is to call to say the galleries facebook or instagram horizontally rather than vertically.
I have another question you no way to call two social networks to mism time?
perhaps poorly I translated certain things (vortex not,he would say vertical), but the idea is to call to say the galleries facebook or instagram horizontally rather than vertically.
I have another question you no way to call two social networks to mism time?
Yeah I know what you mean. It’s planned.
What is “mism time”? Same time? Do you mean putting images from 2 social network into one JIG gallery such as Facebook + Instagram? The answer is currently no not yet.
mmmmmm okay
thanks for the reply, God willing I hope you remember my suggestions for the next upgrade.
I’m super happy for your application is the best.
It likely won’t be included in the next update but I do remember. Just the list is too long.
Hello Firsh
I installed your plugin, but somehow I can’t get it work.
I insert the code below to make a deviantART grid. [justified_image_grid rss_url=http://backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?q=gallery%3Ayukorabbit&type=deviation rss_links_to=image rss_description=none rss_link=yes]
However, it generates a error message like this. “Justified Image Grid error: there are no images to show, the items are empty. (Edit)”
I’m developing my site on a test server. Please check the issue if its necessary. https://yuko-wordpress-yukorabbit.c9.io/sample-page/
Could you give me some tips? Thank you very much for your support!
Hi, your shortcode works fine for me even on my local XAMPP server. Can you try it on the production server somewhere? If your local setup is not identical to the production environment, problems may occur that won’t be present on a properly setup server. Also, the link requires a passwoed. Do you have v2.8.1 of JIG?
I use cloud9 as developing environment. https://c9.io I googled if they have JIG, but I couldn’t find information like that.
i’m not sure this will help, but Multisite feature is turned on, and the database is modified by iTheme security plugin on my environment.
I’ll change my developing environment to a hosting service, and I’ll share you the result.
By the way the “items are empty” appears when JIG cannot set up a list of images to show. This RSS feature requires 2 kind of requests to work. First is getting the Feed, I assume that works as it’s a simple http host and it uses the built in RSS parser of WP. Also it would say a different error message if it couldn’t load it, related to feeds.
The second kind of request is loading each image’s first bits to determine their site. So in your case I believe, the size of the images could not be determined. It’s necessary for the justified layout to work. When working with remote sources, CURL loads a portion of the image and the GD library is used to determine its size. Please ensure that you have GD library installed – when in doubt, ask your hosting’s support. Also you need to have CURL enabled for this.
The problem solved. I installed php5 to the cloud9 server to enable CURL, and it worked! It’s thanks to your last comment.
What did you have before that? Was it php4? If so, that seems ancient. Glad it’s solved now
I’m not sure, it worked soon after I installed php5. So it’s possible that Cloud9 uses php4 for their Wordpress workspace. Lastly, I love your plugin. It was exactly what i want for my online portfolio????
I’m glad you are happy with it
hi firsh, too much comments to find the answer, sorry if this was asked before. Is there a way to avoid instagram tags being displayed in top of pulled galleries? thanks.
Yes, lightboxes tab > What text to show inside the lightbox > set them to Off.
it’s not what I meant… https://www.dropbox.com/s/6t3lw6xgmga28w7/jig.png?dl=0 these are placed before the instagram gallery and setting off the lightbox texts, does not work… 
That is the Filtering feature that you can disable in JIG settings, Filtering tab. It’s not enabled by default in any preset, so it must have been turned on manually by someone
damn! I guess someone added that button whene I was asleep 
btw: I wish to make another question. how do I make an index of all galleries with preview pics? at present I just was able to make a gallery starting from a single page. thanks Firsh, your support is superb. I’m gonna make a nice rating for jig
Without any extra source, such as NextGEN or Facebook or Flickr, you can do that by using the Recent posts source. Each page with a JIG gallery on it, should have a featured image. This will be the album cover. Then show these pages or posts on the index with JIG. Thumbnails will automatically link to galleries. I’d recommend tagging or categorizig every gallery page or gallery post so JIG can pull them in easily and automatically without the need to update the index.
got it, thanks alot!
Great!
and with social gallery too!!
Next step would be a way to allow to open each post’s gallery right there on the index page, just straight in the lightbox. While it’s available for Facebook, Flickr, NextGEN, it’s not yet possible for Recent posts – but it’s on the todo.
Pre-purchase question: How easy is it to utilize custom field data for each image?
I have two custom field son a custom post type that I utilize to display metadata – I just need to be sure I can either template (in PHP) a layout with this plugin that will account for them, or that they’re easy enough to use on the back end that it’s not a problem.
Thanks in advance!
You can show up to 4 custom fields (2 on the captions, 2 in the lightbox). It’s in the admin, in the dropdowns of “what text to show” as captions on the thumbnails and in the lightbox. You need to specify the custom field ID manually. No coding required though.
Dear Firsh, I would you thank you about your incredibile plug-in. I am Omar Bozzini (envato user name: omarbozzini) I’ve bought a regular license:7 Jul 2015, I need to reset it because I changed the original domain (it was installed on a temporary domain) and now I am using it on shake.com domani. Could you please reset the license so I could insure code and use for automatic updates? Thank you, Omar
Done!
If JIG falls apart on the latest Firefox, just update to v2.8.1
Hi Firsh, I am using the recent products with woocommerce, works great … I have about 500 categories, is there a way to display the recent products of the current category ? – instead of manually typing in the term for every category in the recents_filter_term.
Sure but you need to edit your theme’s php files and place a template tag that gets the category automatically from the page and passes it to JIG.
okay, is there a howto somewhere ?
No but if you contact me from my profile I can help you out.
Hi, are you still using tim thumb? I’ve all together stopped using this plugin because of the EXTREME security risk associated with tim thumb, as written by the author of tim thumb himself who no longer even works on it anymore. Thanks.
Hi, let’s not exaggerate there is no extreme risk, it’s all good.
Thumbnail creation is necessary for the various needs of the plugin and here you can read a full technological explanation that should cover all your concerns. Please note that you are free to disable it any time, however there would be a performance hit as the large or original images would be used as thumbnails, letting the browser resize them.
No alternative for this kind of use
After looking at plenty of other solutions, it seems that there is no proper alternative besides Jetpack Photon. Thumbnail creation for JIG needs to fulfill this needs:- Works with external images from various sources, such as Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, RSS feeds (YouTube, Vimeo, 500px, DeviantArt and so on).
- The retina ready feature needs thumbnails to be created on demand at an optimal size for different pixel densities.
- Any change in row height settings (or presets) requires a thumbnail with a new size.
- Works on past galleries, for which the thumbnails haven’t been built.
- Does not upscale.
- Caching with a way to easily clean up.
Problems with the built-in WordPress thumbnail creation
Articles often bash TimThumb and cite the the availability of tools and functions that rely on the built-in image handling of WordPress. Yes, it’s suitable for themes where the developer knows what thumbnail sizes they will require across the various layouts. However, there are several problems with it when used for a plugin like JIG:- Does not work with external images.
- Thumbnails would need to be pre-built, but the row height you may desire in the future is not known in the present.
- Normally, thumbnails are generated on image upload only. Hence the many “thumbnail rebuild” plugins.
- It clutters your /wp-content/uploads/ folder, wasting space with no way to easily clean up. Without intervention, the different and often unnecessary sizes are saved at a high quality too high, often causing the thumbnail to be larger (or at least disproportionate) in filesize than the original, hopefully optimized, originally uploaded version. Take a look at /wp-content/uploads/ directory, isn’t there 10 copies of every picture, just because your theme defined various thumbnail sizes carelessly? Often this is the case.
Security and discontinuation
One could argue that TimThumb is allegedly not secure and is discontinued by its developer.- It wasn’t actively developed since 2012 anyway, as it has reached maturity. Since then, very few updates have been released that only consist of little fixes. So in that sense, it doesn’t make much difference that it’s discontinued.
- It is customized for JIG and the developer keeps a close eye on the script regarding its security. The last exploit found (webshots) wasn’t even enabled or used by JIG, however since then it’s been fixed either way. In general, whenever a security exploit is found in any script, it’s done via ethical hacking where a possible solution is also proposed. It’s expected that JIG will include community fixes should any security issue would occur.
What about the future, how do you make thumbnail creation sustainable?
As part of planned development, JIG will come up with diversified ways to create or access thumbnails:- It would depend less on TimThumb and offer options to use thumbnails sizes already available. Sources often create thumbnails at pre-defined sizes JIG could make use of. These would be a close enough match to your row height settings (which directly influence thumbnail size).
- The possibility of better caching that would not cause any PHP script to run, just to access a cached thumbnail.
- Nicer thumbnail URLs without visible query string parameters.
- Superfluous blocks of code will eventually get removed from TimThumb, making it smaller, more compact, less prone to security issues.
Ok thanks for the info buddy, unfortunately I just can’t use any plugins that use tim thumb because the head of security of the company I work for has it on their list of banned plugins. Anywho, thanks for your detailed post and I understand.
No problem
Just downloaded and “updated” and the plgin reflects the same version 2.8
Try again please. I can confirm the autoupdate system has v2.8.1 but CodeCanyon doesn’t yet have it (it’s in the review queue).
Wow, this looks great. Just a quick, clarifying pre-sales question please. With this plugin, can I set a random grid of pictures for my front page in whatever dimensions I want, pulled from featured images from recent posts, and the only info showing on the grid images is the post title, with the destination when a grid image is clicked being the corresponding blog posts (and not a lightbox gallery)? Thanks!
Yes you can. By whatever dimensions you need to know what JIG uses aspect ratio first and foremost, let it be the image’s original or your custom value. Other than that dimensions are secondary and are derived from row height automatically.
Hey,
Is it possible to add a different style of overlay to a specific thumbnail?
Example: my entire gallery has overlay fade in caption. But only one image will have the magnifying glass ?
I thought it was possible using the settings for each post but those settings will modify the behavior of the entire gallery, overwriting default ones.
Only with Custom CSS. Every image in the grid has a unique ID derived from the source of the image (except for RSS feeds). Thus you can target each image with Custom CSS. If you send me a link where you are using JIG, with all thumbnails having the magnifying glass, I could come up with a short custom CSS to only have that on one specific thumbnail.
No problem, Firsh
I know how to do that. However, I wanted to know if I needed to create a custom solution or it was part of the plugin already.
Also. Is there any way to guarantee the grid stacks images one on top of each other on mobile?
I want to create a specific look for my grid and I was able to do it cropping the images in the right aspect ratio and inserting them in the correct order (desktop). However, when they get to mobile resolution. The grid still have some columns and it looks odd.
Any thoughts ?
Thanks,
The Custom CSS setting is in the plugin already, also the individual IDs in classes are added to each thumbnail However your custom rules are of course not in the plugin so you’ll need to come up with them. If you send me a link I can write you an example to change the design of 1 specific thumbnail.
Just use a larger mobile row height of 320 to 640, depending on which orientation you target. JIG will limit the height of the thumbnail to not exceed the screen (since the latest update). That way pretty much only 1 will fit in each row. Do not enter a very high value because it’ll be the resolution of the thumbnail already. And it’s all retina so you should count 2x-3x the resolution anyway.
Hi, I purchased JIG to use with the NextGen Gallery Pro Lightbox and I rely on its comments and e-commerce integration. Now, I followed the instruction on the codecanyon support page to activate the NextGen lightbox (under the question “How to use NextGEN pro lightbox with Justified Image Grid?”), but neither the comments nor the e-commerce panel are available. I really depend on this, so I hope there is a fix. Many thanks!
A customer has requested this and I have a possible solution for you although it’s in beta. I’d love if you could test it – contact me from my profile please. Not sure I can release it as an update because it’s rather tricky. NG Pro lightbox expects the gallery to be NextGEN but it can be faked.
Hey! I entered the license / purchase code in the plugin, but auto updates are not happening still. Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks, Vincent
Try now, v2.8.1 is in the system. Click “check again” on the updates tab of WP dashboard. You are in the database already with a .nl domain hope that’s correct.
Odd error – out of the blue. I didn’t even edit the page, and it doesn’t show up on all pages with grids..
Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/mmageeph/public_html/wp-content/plugins/justified-image-grid/justified-image-grid.php on line 9139
http://181.224.137.142/~mmageeph/weddings/Thanks
I’m not getting that error there. Please update to v2.8.1 as it could be already fixed. If not, let me know again. Did it happen with a Recent posts source?
I turned errors to false in wp-config, but yes it was a recent posts source.
On v2.8.1 if you turn wp debug, what does it say? The line number is changed most likely, what is it?
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Ok
Hello,
I see there is an update available. But my WP can not update it. Everytime I try it says it was updated, but the second later there is a notification that there is an update for plugin.
Any idea?
Regards, Domen P
The file is not yet distributed as I’m still working on it and it’s pending. I removed v2.8.1 from the system for now but it’ll soon be released.
Hi
i get a update notification that i need to update to 2.8.1 but when i do the issue remains.
the version number is still 2.8
please resolve. Thnx
It’s still coming soon, had to pull it back as I want to add other things to it. I hope to be able to push it really live today.
Hi Firsh,
Can you tell me which PHP code controls the options to disable nextgen styles and javascript. I know you have an option in the JIG settings but I need to need keep just one file “nextgen_basic_thumbnails.min.css” and remove all the other files from loading.
Thanks many
It automatically disables everything coming from NextGEN, not each file individually. You could add an exception, however.
Line 7949-7965, function remove_nextgen_resources()
Thanks Firsh. sorry to ask but are you able to tell me the exception expression syntax.
Contact me from my profile I can do this as a small customization for you.
