516 comments found.
Hi Castlecode! andreapk is my developer/designer and I have bought the code, please give her the solution in my name please. The question was: thanks for that great plugin. How can I customize the plugin filtering section on mobile view? I’m using inline adjustment but on mobile it looks very disorganized. This is the link of the site: https://www.ordomi.com/ordomi-news/
Hello,
Thank you for the clarification
About your issue you can try adding this peace of CSS:
@media only screen and (max-width: 400px) {
.media-boxes-filters-container .media-boxes-filter{
padding: 0 !important;
margin: -5px !important;
width: 100% !important;
}
.media-boxes-filters-container .media-boxes-filter>li{
width: 50% !important;
margin: 0px !important;
padding: 5px !important;
}
}
I hope that looks better
Best, David
Hello,
thanks for that great plugin. How can I customize the plugin filtering section on mobile view? I’m using inline adjustment but on mobile it looks very disorganized. This is the link of the site: https://www.ordomi.com/ordomi-news/
Thanks!
Hello,
It depends what you want to do, do you want each filter-item to go 100% of width? or maybe 50%?
Also did you buy the plugin from a different account? since CodeCanyon says that you haven’t bought this plugin
Best,
David
Hello,
you can try adding this peace of CSS:
@media only screen and (max-width: 400px) {
.media-boxes-filters-container .media-boxes-filter{
padding: 0 !important;
margin: -5px !important;
width: 100% !important;
}
.media-boxes-filters-container .media-boxes-filter>li{
width: 50% !important;
margin: 0px !important;
padding: 5px !important;
}
}
I hope that looks better
Best, David
Hello, love the plugin. There is something I cant figure out. I want to create a featured portfolio that displays only 9 posts from the “Featured” Category, but i want users to be able to filter by the other categories that those posts are also in. If i choose all the categories, i can’t select which items to feature. Thanks!
Hello,
I don’t fully understand, any chance you could show me a living example online so I can understand better? you can contact me privately via email here: https://codecanyon.net/user/castlecode#contact
Best,
David
Thank you so much for the wonderful support!
Hi dear, I have a question about your plug-in. I’m using it as press area of my brand with the image of VIP and celebrity wearing my products. I would like that google can index these images. I tried in the caption of the image but no effects. How I can do it?
Thank you
Hello,
yes I recently found this issue, in the next update I will include the ability to specify the alt and title attributes for the thumbnails in the grid
I hope it is ready soon
Bst, David
Hi, I bought the WP Media Boxes Portfolio and it’s amazing! I write you because I don’t know the way to do lightboxs for my videos in the portfolio…I check the options in the panel like magnific popup and don’t work….Can you send more information to show the videos as a popups like:
http://preview.codecanyon.net/item/wp-media-boxes-portfolio-responsive-wordpress-grid-plugin/full_screen_preview/22881148?_ga=2.208357713.298922844.1555401091-817605294.1551115451&_gac=1.49406610.1554293552.EAIaIQobChMI7ejWpvKz4QIVB0TTCh3i3wOkEAAYASAAEgK3OPD_BwEThanks!!!
Hello,
thank you
You just need to set the “Popup Type” to iframe and paste your youtube video in the “Popup Url” (in the meta box of the media boxes), you can see how here: http://www.castlecodeweb.com/files/plugins_comments/9.mov
Best, David
Hello,
I have WordPress 5.1.1 and P.H.P version 7.3.3., is the WP Media Boxes Portfolio plugin compatible with my settings? I’m using Real Homes theme.
Thank you in advance!
Best regards, Andrea
Hi Andrea,
yes the plugin is compatible with those settings
Best, David
I just purchased WP Media Boxes yesterday and am slowly getting around its usage. I need to know it any of the SEO meta data can be added to the media boxes? For instance, where can I use headings H2,H3, on titles or anchor links in the boxes. How can I add alt.txt attributes to images that are in the media boxes? I cannot believe such important SEO stuff was totally ignored but maybe I just do not know how. Did not find anything in your help and support files. Please advise if I’ve overseen this somewhere or how these can be added! Any workaround? Thanks, Miho
Hi Miho,
for h2 and h3 and anchor tags you can use them inside your post content or post title, but you are totally right about the title and alt attributes for the thumbnails in the plugin, this is implemented already in the HTML version but it was missed in the WP version, I will add this in the next update, so it takes the “Alt Text” from the WP media library or you can also specify it manually.
thank you for reporting this
Best, David
Sounds good! I managed the H3 titles but am not sure how to enter the thumbnail image alt.txt in the post content box? Please give me a sample how to add this part? When is the next update planned? Thanks
Do you mean the atl and title for the thumbnail in the grid?
The update will come probably in few weeks
Yes, the alt & title for the thumbnail in the grid. How do I add that to the post box?
currently there’s no field for that option, that’s what will come in the next update 
Aha! OK. I’ll have to wait then. Thanks for your time!
Hi David,
in WordPress I was trying to put an audio shortcode in the manual excerpt, but it isn’t working correctly (no audio player is showing in the excerpt in portfolio view). Maybe your plugin is blocking audio shortcodes from rendering correctly?
Also, I am getting these errors:
Notice: Undefined index: excerpt_remove_shortcodes in /var/www/vhosts/uweborchers.de/httpdocs/hypnoseapp/wp-content/plugins/wp_media_boxes/admin/admin.php on line 415
Notice: Undefined index: excerpt_strip_tags in /var/www/vhosts/uweborchers.de/httpdocs/hypnoseapp/wp-content/plugins/wp_media_boxes/admin/admin.php on line 416
Is there any possible fix? Because I need this for my client’s site.
Thank you!
Hi Oliver,
sent you an email, also can you also send me the link to your site (via email) so I can see what’s going on with those errors you are getting
Best, David
Hi, loving the media grid so far. I am running into an issue with the Full Width grid. At screen sizes 1280 and below, a gap shows up between the thumbnails and it is uneven. I need a straight non masonry grid. All the thumbnails are the same size. you can see the live example at http://pbc.pleasantlyprogressivedesign.com/ here is a screen shot: https://snag.gy/H4GMC3.jpg
Hello,
thank you
did you find the issue? I’m trying to find those gaps in your site but I’m not able to see them, I see your site running correctly
Let me know
Best, David
Hello! I have a problem. My site: www.jonasingstad.com wont show the thumbnails. its blank. Can you help me, whats wrong?
Best regards Jonas
Hi Jonas,
did you find the problem? I see the plugin working fine in your site
Best, David
Hello,
I just purchased your Media Boxes plug-in – very nice 
I am using it for a Custom Post Type and one item I am missing in the ‘Skin’ section (Available Items) is the post meta like Category or Taxonomy that would link to the respective archive pages the post type belongs to. Is there any custom work-around or update that could add these things in?
Please let me know…
All the best, -andreas
Hi Andreas,
thank you
Unfortunately this option is not available at this moment, but can you send me a screen shot of the “post meta” you are referring? maybe I can include it in an update
Best, David
Hi David,
thanks for getting back to me. Sometimes plug-in authors quickly say – ‘no, can’t be done’ so I like that you try your best to listen to feedback and see if there might be a plug-in improvement in there.
The post meta I am referring to could be for regular Posts either the Category & Tags which when clicked would go to the respective archive pages and for Custom Post Types these would the the taxonomies which also would be linked to the respective archive pages.
Thanks again and kudos to a great plugin 
andreas
Hi Andres,
I was actually planning to include the taxonomies in the skin editor (as an update) they will show up divided by comma, something like this: http://www.castlecodeweb.com/mediaboxes/example/blog_posts.html
is that something that would work for you? also what would be the “archive page”?
Best, David
Hi David,
yes, that is exactly what I was thinking of 
For Category & Tags Wordpress would use I think archive.php to display the post if no custom page structure is defined.
For example for Category Wordpress would look for:
category-slug.php category-ID.php category.php archive.php index.php
and automatically use the first available matching php file it finds in that hierarchy. You can check the Wordpress Template Hierarchy (https://wphierarchy.com/) to see which pages Wordpress would check or automatically use if no custom file structure is found. So the specificity is up to the user but Wordpress has a ‘automatic choice’/fallback.
Same for Custom Post Type Taxonomies – if not custom file structure is present Wordpress would use the archive.php file.
Thanks again for your great support!
-andreas
Hi Andreas,
I’m not quite sure about the link to the “archive page”, you would be able to specify a static URL though, but I’ll definitely add the taxonomies in the skin editor
Best, David
Hi David, that would be great – thanks for constantly keeping improving an already amazing plug-in 
Hi Sane,
I think I found the problem, it seems that your theme is targeting all anchor tags that have this href=”#” and it is preventing any event on them. But if you have FTP access to your server you can fix this in the plugin by doing the following:
1) Navigate via FTP to the plugin folder (wp-content/plugins/wp_media_boxes)
2) Open the class_media_boxes_shortcode.php file
3) Find all the instances of this: href=’#’ and remove it (only that portion of code, which you will find 4 instances)
4) That’s it, save it and try again
Let me know if this makes sense
Best, David
Hello,
1. I am pleased with your product, i’ts fast and easy
2. Is it possible to make the same heights of text in portfolio skin. I’d like to make a straight grid.
Hello,
1) thank you, I’m glad you like it
2) do you mean like a static height? you can try adding this peace of CSS:
.media-box-content{
height: 200px !important;
}
Best, David
thank you
Hi, just purchased your great plugin (the demo looks great!), but I have big problems with the layout. I’ve tried different settings, also de-activated several plugins (except Jetpack, I only turned lazy load off on this plugin) to check for and this is the best result I get:
https://bit.ly/2UZMi1tHi Johannes,
I noticed that the Media Boxes is currently inside a “pre” and “code” HTML tags, which causes strange behaviors, since that’s meant for “preformatted text”.
Check this out: http://www.castlecodeweb.com/files/plugins_comments/15.png
Can you place the shortcode of the Media Boxes in another container that doesn’t produce a “pre” or “code” tag?
Let me know if this makes sense
Best, David
Hi David, I had to laugh at myself. Guess I used Gutenbergs code block instead of short code… I’m sorry. Thanks for the quick reply (and solution)
you’re welcome, I’m glad that was it 
Hi
I want to use your plugin for a setup like this:
I have 1 big category with all the posts inside called ‘clubleden’ All the posts have taxonomy on location (antwerp, brussels, … ) All the posts have a second taxonomy on type: (hotel, restaurant, cocktailbar, … )
There is a separate page for every location, for example: page antwerp, page brussels …
On the ‘page antwerp’ i want to show all the ‘clubleden’ posts that have a taxonomy ‘antwerp’ And then i want to show a filter on the page for the second taxonomy (hotel, restaurant, … )
What is the best way of doing this ? + I only want to show the filter for the second taxonomy (hotel, … ) on the page NOT the first filter that only contains only the location + the ‘all’ button can i hide filter group 1 in any way ? maybe with the css ?
Thanks!
Hello Matthieu,
Yes, you can hide the first filter with CSS, can you show me a living example online of this? so I can provide you the exact CSS you must add in your page
You can contact me privately via email here: https://codecanyon.net/user/castlecode#contact
Best, David
I’ve sent you a message! Thanks
Thanks for the support, the code provides was:
display: none !important }
[data-id="filter_1"]{
display: none !important
}
I just purchased and attempted to install the plugin by selecting the zip folder that was provided which has a name of codecanyon-22881148-wp-media-boxes-portfolio-responsive-wordpress-grid-plugin.zip
After uploading the file the following text is displayed: Installing Plugin from uploaded file: codecanyon-22881148-wp-media-boxes-portfolio-responsive-wordpress-grid-plugin.zip Unpacking the package… Installing the plugin… The package could not be installed. No valid plugins were found. Plugin installation failed.
Please refer me to installation instructions.
Hello
You need to unzip the file you downloaded from CodeCanyon, inside you will find a file name wp_media_boxes.zip that’s the one you must upload to your WP installation
I hope it makes sense
Best, David
Thanks David, I’ve discovered the documentation folder and index of video tutorials which is very helpful. I have another question though, in the skin editor, how do add image caption to the available items to drop in the thumbnail overlay. I’m using custom media gallery as my post type for the media box.
I’m glad you found the video-docs
Ohh unfortunately, currently the image caption is not available as an item in the skin editor, I will check that out for a future update though.
Meanwhile if you are looking to add some extra “text” to the images you can add is as a “Post Content”, check the first part of this video: http://www.castlecodeweb.com/files/plugins_comments/9.mov
You’ll notice how you can edit an image and you’ll find the Media Boxes meta data box, in which you can add a “post content” to each image
Hope it makes sense
Thanks David, your solution makes sense and works okay. Would welcome option to use image caption if and when you include it as it will make the task much quicker. Would also be useful if filters could be given descriptive headings within the standard UI.
Hello,
I’ll definitely keep it in mind
Also can you explain a little bit more about the descriptive headings on the filters? (I didn’t quite understand that part)
Best, David
Hello David, when you use more than one filter group in “Filter-Search-Sort”, there doesn’t appear to be any way to provide a descriptive heading for each filter group, unless you copy the shortcode and place it manually on the page in a container with its own heading.
Ohh I got it, thank you for your feedback 
Presale question: Can the portfolio gallery be a mixture of images and videos on the same page? And for videos, will it show a play button overlay so that visitors know that it’s a video?
Hello,
yes you can have a mixture of images and videos, for example in this page: http://www.castlecodeweb.com/wp-mediaboxes/blog-posts/ the first item has an image and the second one has a video.
About the play button when its a video, for this case you can create 2 skins, one for the images and another one for the videos, then on each item you would need to specify which skin to use (either image or video)
I hope this makes sense
Best,
David
Hi, David. Thanks for your prompt and courteous response. Makes perfect sense. And as for creation of the skins, this is all possible with the plugin without coding or any other 3rd party integration? I’m ready to buy, but just need to make sure this meets my needs
Thanks again.
Hello,
Yes indeed, you don’t need to code to create the skins, there’s a skin editor that comes with the plugin. Also you can import the skins from the live preview so you don’t start from zero
I’m hope this helps
Best, David
Hi,
we’ve bought the WP Media Boxes Portfolio. In our envato market the download version is 1.1.1. In Wordpress there’s also no update indicated, but on the envato Changelog it says you have a version 1.2
How can we get that update?
Best, Peter
Hello Peter,
Go to your downloads page and use the “All files & documentation” link, as shown here:
http://www.castlecodeweb.com/files/plugins_comments/14.png
I’ll update the “Installable Wordpress file only” link as well
Best, David
Hi David, thanks, but it did not work. It still says 1.1.1 – hm … Is there a chance to update it directly in the WP Backend? Normally it should say “Update available – Please update to 1.2”, but there’s no update alert there. Or is this not possible with this plugin and all updates have to be made via FTP? Thanks, Peter
Hi Peter,
Very strange, I just fixed both ways of downloading the plugin, and tried downloading it my self and it says “1.2”, can you check the following:
1) open the wp_media_boxes/media_boxes.php file in a text editor
2) at the top you’ll see some variables, one says “Version” which version says there? it should say “1.2”
Direct updates in the admin section are not implemented yet, will check that out for a future update 
Thanks, I’ve checked and it says 1.2 in the media_boxes.php. I’ve uploaded and installed it again, did not work. And once again, then it worked. So, now there’s 1.2. Thanks for your help!
Ohh maybe there was some cache issue so it wasn’t updating the file! But I’m glad it is working now 
Before I buy very important that you confirm that this type of code will work within your app. Thanks for confirming asap I am looking seriously for an app
<iframe class=”_vs-player” src=”https://swiftcdn6.global.ssl.fastly.net/projects/5c8ad03183882/index.html?cb=fd610pqp4yqzc5pxnhvtzq” width=900 height=506 frameborder=”0” allow=”autoplay *” style=”opacity: 0”></iframe><script src=”https://vsplayer.global.ssl.fastly.net/wrapper-v3.js”></script>
Hello,
yes it works, you can actually see it working here: http://www.castlecodeweb.com/wp-mediaboxes/popup-content/ just click on the “A web page” image so you can see it
the plugin supports iframes, so you would only need this URL: https://swiftcdn6.global.ssl.fastly.net/projects/5c8ad03183882/index.html?cb=fd610pqp4yqzc5pxnhvtzq the other code is not necessary
Best, David
Hello,
I’m trying to get the thumbnail in the media grid to show the correct alt text. It’s currently displaying the image URL in the alt text attribute and the alt text is displayed as the data-alt text in the images parent div. Is there any way to get the image to show the correct alt text?
Thanks
Jo
Hi Jo,
By any chance you bough the Stand Alone version (the HTML version) since CodeCanyon says that you haven’t buy this plugin (the WP version)
Please let me know
Best, David