I solved this thanks.

With SEO plugins like yoast, the featured image of the page will be used in case a lightbox was not open at the time of sharing.

Yes also I had to change the default setting on my SEO setting to featured image not the default image on the SEO setting. Thanks

Do you mean the whole grid, or images in an incomplete or less-than-full-width row? The latter would be influenced by the “incomplete last row” setting and its “center” option. The whole grid’s position on your site is probably better influenced by your theme/builder. JIG aims to take max available space for it, most likely the positioning is not in its control. Margin 0 auto would only work if you limit the max width of the grid, but your site layout has more space available for it.

Thank you I found a way to fix it through your custom css option

Great!

Hi,

It’s standard wordpress taxonomy feature, extended to images. No matter how you add the extra info to the images, it can even be post meta, you can make JIG pull those images.

Ok I’ll pass on this message to the developer.

I told him I wanted to use image “Category” taxonomy so he’s trying to get that to work.

Here is what his second comment was: “Getting close but I don’t think that’s the ticket. I saw in that thread the post meta key “_jig_image_link”. I’m assuming that is for the “JIG Link” setting from your screenshot.

Could you ask the developer about the “Categories” and “Tags” settings? Also, what format are those fields expecting? Assuming the JIG Link is expecting just a string.”

JIG Link is only for custom links, they expect a string that is a full URL.

The cats and tags just does this:

if ('enable' == $this->settings['post_tags_categories']) {
    $taxonomies = ['category', 'post_tag'];
    foreach ($taxonomies as $tax) {
        register_taxonomy_for_object_type($tax, 'attachment');
    }
}

The doc pdf doesn’t have a step by step to create this exact scenario. I’ll write various tutorials that combine parts of the plugin instead of dissecting features individually.

1. Basically you create the whole structure in RML (JIG is just a display). I guess you already have this. Folders in Folders, or Galleries in Collections, it doesn’t matter which.

2. In JIG (preferably on the grids interface – create new grid). Choose a high-level RML folder/collection that contains the 19 clients (each client is a subfolder or gallery).

3. This setting is key. https://i.justifiedgrid.com/2opnzoko.png When clicking a client, the browser won’t navigate away. A lightbox group for photos of just that client will open (say, a handful of photos of that person only).

4. FooBox is picked on the Lightboxes tab of JIG. Use it for both desktop and mobile, it’s a solid lightbox.

That helped. I was on the right track – I had the JIG set up correctly, but I didn’t have the RML folders right.

Thanks, Firsh!

Use the one that’s faster 1s is quite good. Yes even if they are served from the CDN, they are large so their file size is 4x. With disabled timthumb you also need to choose a WP media library thumbnail size (on that same tab), so less scaling is done by the browser. If you don’t have a size that’s close to your “target row height + deviation” value (what TimThumb does), you need to register a new thumbnail size and re-generate them with a 3rd party plugin. This is partly why JIG has TT so it saves you this step and to only host thumbnails in the size you need and only for those images you actually show through JIG.

I’m exploring options for integrating various image optimization CDNs into JIG to solve this.

All really good plans. Thanks. Please do follow through and implement the suggestions I’ve made and the solutions you insist will be included in this great plugin in the future. For now I guess I’ll just use my site minus a CDN for your plugin as it does a good job at serving scaled images vs the browser doing that. I guess that’s the saving grace Things seem to be loading fast for now at https://forever1995.com

Stay tuned for thumbnail-related improvements!

I never heard of it or doesn’t ring a bell, so its compatibility must be one way. Contact me from my profile I’ll take a look what can be done about it. JIG has a handful of settings that help conecting 3rd party lightboxes.

Try this: https://codex.wordpress.org/Next_and_Previous_Links Standard WP feature, not sure if it works for attachment pages. It’s currently not in scope of JIG to change your attachment page. Some argue that individual pages for single images are bad for SEO, I don’t know. From JIG’s standpoint it makes sense and would make social sharing better too. So yours is a nice usage and I agree it needs arrows. That line of code goes into the theme’s template file for attachment pages. This: attachment.php see: https://developer.wordpress.org/files/2014/10/Screenshot-2019-01-23-00.20.04.png

Hi Firsh. By looking at what I have “inherited”, the original developers have put the template for the page linked above in an image.php file within their theme, I guess that that’s where I’ll need to put the code. I am working on how to make JIG “filterable” to the needs of the site owner, in 2 main points

1) Having a drop down style for filters. I know that your roadmap will eventually include them, but to provide the functionality to the client in the meanwhile, I am in the process of implementing it myself atm. I have been able to filter to an arbitrary number of parameters by adding a jig_media_library_query_args filter into JIG, as you suggested in a reply to an earlier query. I am also able to pass those parameters via $_GET so that takes care of the filtering, but I still need to reload the page. I was about to look into the JIG code to see what call prompts the reloading of the gallery once the user clicks on the tag or button, I still haven’t found the method that I should call. Could you tell me which method to call? I’ll take care to pass the right values to it so as to not break JIG.

2) With regards to the forward / backwards … agreed, pure image pages are not good for SEO by themselves. What I have “inherited” by the previous developers is a theme which uses an image.php file which is used as template for the example link I posted above. They do display a lot of other info and users once there cannot go anywhere so I will transform that info into clickable search links, and of course the forward / back functionality. Actually, since the gallery will be filtered, while simple forwards / backwards is better than nothing, I would like to keep them within the set returned by the currently selected filters. It’s quite an endeavor which requires some parameter or session persistence, and I need to figure out how not to make it too heavy on the DB. Just putting out the end game for the back / forward, in case it suggests you an extra feature for future versions.

Maybe you know that already, but by fiddling with the filter, I discovered that I can pass named keys to query_args, such as

‘attachment_tag’ => [‘taxonomy’ => ‘attachment_tag’, ‘field’ => ‘slug’, ‘terms’ => [‘gallery’]]

and it seems to work fine, that helps me in constructing the final query_args array no matter the cardinality! so far, WP does not seem to complain. And thanks for the template dependency schematic!

Best,

MB

Hi,

1. You likely can’t extend the JS the way you need, there is no public function to call regards to filtering. The best way would be modifying the wp query, so it’ll need a reload unfortunately. However, the dev plugin zip has the unminified source justified-image-grid.js and you can rebuild the plugin with grunt.

2. Instead of session, you can just slap additional parameter at the end of the URL as a wp permalink, set up with a flag that affects the attachment pages. like example.com/your-image/filtered-by/your-filter

The link rel canonical will preserve the original page for robots, so it won’t count as duplicate content. It’ll be up to you to hand the the parameter accordingly.

Hi, thumbnails currently can’t extend beyond 1 row.

Your best best is to start with this: https://justifiedgrid.com/support/faq/one-image-per-row-one-column-possible/ Yes I’ll make a preset out of it to be easier, but not everyone wants this layout automatically on mobile. If the images are full width 1 column, the lightbox might not make much sense unless for the zooming.

Separating the thumbnail spacing setting to a mobile-only variation is currently cumbersome and I don’t have a video. I plan to rework the preset system to make it much easier to use. I recently started using my own plugin in production and this is one of the key points for ease of use improvement.

Making mobile a 1-column layout doesn’t require a custom /mobile/ preset, however. The large thumbnail spacing will not squish the images from side to side (since it won’t be applied at all horizontally, just between the images). Vertically, even the 40px may be ok, but try reducing that universally for all devices to something like 20.

Cropping may be because of the large thumbnail spacing as it could throw off the calculations.

Yes, there is no “across” or “images per row” setting. The starting point is the row height and is the base of everything, that coincides with the x per row approach: https://justifiedgrid.com/support/faq/id-like-n-images-per-row-and-all-thumbnails-the-same-xy-size-possible/

The disable cropping works by allowing the row height to drop down (to 50 if really needed), it is not enabled for desktop for you (only mobile). If you check on desktop resized to mobile size, you won’t see this in effect as it currently uses server side mobile detection. There is not much downside to enabling it for all devices, especially if you want to avoid cropping anywhere.

Nice. Thank you. Simply setting the target row height to 400 and also row height max deviation to 400 seemed to get the best results on desktop and mobile. I’m going to add this plugin to another 2 projects now so will be these licences soon (4 in total!). Thanks for your help. I look forward to the updates you are going to add though…. clicking a tick box for these settings would be great. Cheers, Paul.

Good, thank you for your continued support! Not necessarily a tickbox but a preset that just does this (as part of an easier to use presets system).

Note that it’ll make an exception to the one row thing if the browser height is so small that an image can’t fit in its entirety (portrait image on landscape mobile comes to mind). The max height of any thumbnail is set to the height of the device. This can’t be turned off but maybe I’ll add a setting so you can turn it off in the future.

Yeah it can do these, but the layout will be horizontal not vertical.

Didn’t help. -1 to PhotoSwipe JS settins disappears gallery at all.

If you send me temporary wp-admin (contact me from my profile), I can investigate. But just by looking at your site it remains a mystery (while you had PS lightbox). Magnific popup is the best lightweight lighbox though, from the same developer. Unless you need zooming and the sharing menu, it’s on par. Some themes customized it for nice animations I think I could dig up some of that code if you are interested and PS remains stubborn.

Did you disable all of those plugins temporarily and the problem still occurred? Was the caching by wp-optimize paused during testing?

I disabled cache (cachify, not wp-optimize) and disabled one plugin after another. Thanks for your care, let it stay as is. Magnific popup is almost as nice. I still love JIG.

Let me explain a little more, the private pages are created already, we only need to import/view the videos from selected showcases. Thank you!

Is the showcase public or private? As far as I know showcases don’t have the RSS feed feature so with the current version of JIG it can’t be automated. You can link to individual videos using their thumbnail though, but that’s a manual approach.

I found this: https://vimeo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026953671

JIG needs what Amazon Fire TV needs, that MRSS feed URL. Are you able to generate that? It doesn’t seem to come with a free account.

Thanks for your quick response. That would be appreciatedt if you can test it with the mixed folders and let me know. If the standalone images just open on their own that should be fine. The thing is we also need to be able to tag and cetegorise the images (the grouped images will come under the same tags). Similar to how we do here: https://dftbskindeep.com/description-gallery/. Also if we use a new domain we require another license? Cheers

If it’s a brand new site on a different domain = new license yes. If you are transferring a site or testing the plugin = no new license.

The idea works just fine, all standalone images are grouped together, while those that are 3s are grouped separately.

Filtering is okay, just put the tags and cats on the cover / first picture in the RML folder.

This needs RML folders with folders, NOT galleries/collections (!).

Video for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aPy6hye-tY

One caveat: the grouped ones are always first, then come the standalone ones. Besides that, the order is drag and drop.

The video you made is really helpful We will purchase the new license when we are ready to go ahead with the new site. Many thanks

I haven’t given up on it yet, maybe with scraping it’ll be possible. But support for popular builders and performance improvements are more important for now.

Ok, I understand. But I’ll keep my hopes up still!

Seems to work for me, but please post your shortcode (if used via the grids, post the full shortcode from the shortcode tab) so I can check with your content.

[justified_image_grid rss_url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPD8UVyMIBfn6GzBJS84UuQ] www.ar-sandbox.eu

Try this:

[justified_image_grid rss_url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPD8UVyMIBfn6GzBJS84UuQ/videos]

With this /videos at the end.

Could it have landed in spam?

Yep, that’s exactly what happened. Changing the mobile from Photoswipe fixed it.

For anyone else with similar problem, one extra mistake I made was that since the plugin has been working so well for so long, I didn’t remember that originally the options were passed in by shortcode, so my shortcodes were overriding the pretty UI configuration.

Done.

Done.

Thank you.

Oh, thank you, you are very kind!

I don’t know of course if this has been asked more than just by me – I personally would find the orderby setting very useful.

I think you are the first one to ever request this, but the option kinda make sense.

Ok, just for information then if someone wonders about this:

I use woocommerce as kind of ordering system, not for stocked products. And as I craft new goods that are similar to previous orders, I update woocommerce product photo. So I don’t create new products very often. And this is why I was looking for to order them by last modified – to showcase new product images better.

Anyway – the code you provided works (of course) and everything looks better now!

Done.

Sorry to bug you… I just changed it back to .com

Would you please change it back one more time?

Done. Sorry for the delay.