Hi Aldo,
Happy to hear that you are still using it

It depends, which version of the plugin you are using, are you using the new version? (the one based on the Media Boxes) or are you using the old one (first version)?

Best, David

Thanks David…. I know I’ve not updated a least 3 years ago… so it must be the old version. So my guess I need to re-created with the new version?

Hi Aldo, the major update was on 2017, maybe you already on the new version, can you send me the link to your site so I can check it out?
you can contact me privately via email here: https://codecanyon.net/user/castleplugins#contact

Best, David

it is blank when I look at the template area. is there a chunk of code I could copy and paste into there?

yes, you can copy the code from here: https://www.castlecodeweb.com/wp-autogrid/documentation/#template

or you can also create a new gallery and copy the code from there (when you create a new gallery the “template area” has some content by default)

I hope this makes sense

Best, David

that worked. thanks,

Hello,
thank you

it may be an issue with the scrollbar, try adding this peace of CSS:

body{
  overflow-y: scroll; 
}

Hello,
the plugin is placed via shortcode, so yes, you can place the shortcode in elementor

Best, David

Thank you very much. I liked the plugin because of its function, fast photo viewer, zoom, very mobile. What you need now. A successful solution to the problem.

thank you

Hello,
thank you

Yes, there’s a feature for that purpose, lets imagine you have an image named Autumn.jpg under Category 1, if you want that image to be under Category 2 and Category 3 as well (without adding it again inside those folders) you would need to use the config.txt file, and inside that config.txt you can write something like this:

image           => Category 1/Autumnn.jpg
extra_filter    => Category 2, Category 3

sent you an email

Hi Gianluca,
Yes, that would be possible, although it would required customizing the code and adding the option in the admin section

yes, I added a “clone” button in the admin (to clone the settings) you can send me a private message so I can send it to you to try it out, you can contact me here: https://codecanyon.net/user/castlecode#contact

Best, David

Hi David, popoup Fancybox buttons on top right, are not visible when user is login and wp admin bar in on. May you help me?

Best regards Gianluca

Hi Gianluca,
try adding this peace of CSS:

.fancyboxMB-container {
  z-index: 999999999999 !important;
}

I guess another related question is if there is a limit to the number of categories?

Hello,
Ohh I see, the plugin doesn’t have a limit in the total number either, but sometimes if the thumbnails are a little bit heavy browsers tend to lag when there are many images, can you show me a living example online? so I can take a look and see what’s going on? you can contact me privately via email here: https://codecanyon.net/user/castlecode#contact

Best, David

Hi,
the plugin doesn’t have a limit per category at the moment

Yes,
there’s an option in the admin settings named “Enable gallery for popup” which disables the next/prev buttons, so only a single image will show up in the lightbox

Best, David

Ok thanks, so I can insert a main photo for the album and when I click the lightbox opens with the other photos in the album inside?

Hi, ohh you meant a unique gallery in the light box per image in the grid, unfortunately the plugin doesn’t have this feature, it might be possible with the media boxes plugin but you would have to specify the HTML manually for all your images

Best, David

Hello,
Very strange, can you send me a couple of screen shots of this? you can contact me privately via email here: https://codecanyon.net/user/castlecode#contact

Best, David

I sent you a private email through the link.

lets continue via email

Hi,
Do you mean like this example? http://www.castlecodeweb.com/wp-autogrid/portfolio/# some images have video-iframe and others have just images

if so then yes, you can have in the same gallery a combination of that

Best, David

Hello, yes! It is also possible to add a shared social button to any single picture? Can I set a link for a single picture? Thank you again

Hello,
At the moment the plugin doesn’t have sharing social functionalities

And yes you can set a link for a single picture

Best, David

Hello,
1) can you explain a little bit more what do you mean with “navigate through the same image”? you only want to open 1 image and no navigate to another one?

2) I just read on fancybox that they are working in something like (a zoom in effect by default so the image stays full width and with the cursor you can move around to see it all), but its not ready yet, I’ll be happy to update fancybox once they make an update

Best, David

Thanks for the reply 1) That is correct, I want the image to open in the popup, and when the user scrolls the image moves up and down. Right now when the user scrolls, the popup cycles through the images in the gallery. 2) The example I’m using for your product is this site: https://www.citytechhq.com/portfolio which as you can see, when you open the image in the popup, it opens to 100%. Is it possible they have modified your plugin to do that?

Hello,
1) Unfortunately the plugin doesn’t have an option for this in the admin section but you can disable the wheel navigation from fancybox by doing the following:
open the plugin/components/Media Boxes/js/jquery.mediaBoxes.js file and find this:

transitionDuration  : settings.fancybox.transitionDuration,

wheel: false,

jQuery(document).on('afterShow.fb',function(e,instance,slide){
    instance.scaleToActual(50,50,0)
});

Hello,
the plugin supports webp images since it is using the standard “img” HTML tag, but WordPress doesn’t support that format on its Gallery, if you have your webp images stored somewhere else you can point to them manually (instead of using the ones from the WP Media Gallery).

Can you specify how you currently have them?

Best, David

Hello,
Can you show me a living example of this? so I can see what’s going on.
You can contact me privately via email here: https://codecanyon.net/user/castlecode#contact

Best, David

Great support! Thanks so much for helping out. Great plug-in!

Hello,
thank you

Just rename your folder names and that’s it, the plugin will change it automatically when you refresh the page

Best, David

I made it at first) But it doesn’t work. If I write name of the folder in Russian (“АБВ”) – on the site i see “gallery” instead “АБВ”. What should I do? Thank you

Hello,
Ohh you meant the name of the main gallery folder, if so then you also need to point the plugin to that new folder, like this (in your page):

<div id="grid" auto-grid-data="<?php echo get_auto_grid_data("galleries/АБВ"); ?>"></div>

Hi Christian,
Those images probably got some EXIF data so they look correctly when you open them in your computer, but in the web the normal “img” HTML tag doesn’t read any EXIF data, it just display the image as it is, I would recommend you to remove the EXIF data from the image.

some help can be found here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37432580/how-to-remove-exif-data-from-image-but-keep-the-orientation

I hope this makes sense,

Best, David

Thanks for the quickly reply but my client doesn’t understand technical tools so he could be lost.

Hi,
Unfortunately the plugin doesn’t have a tool to read the EXIF data and rotate the image accordingly, it is just using the original image file as if you would use it in a normal “img” HTML tag

Maybe in the future I’ll add some feature to handle this

You can read about this here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12026441/is-there-a-way-to-tell-browsers-to-honor-the-jpeg-exif-orientation

Best, David

Hello Diana,
The plugin automatically adapts the grid to the 100% of its container, so in your theme you need to make the container of the grid 100% of width and the plugin will adapt to it automatically.

For centering the categories on top, you can do it with CSS, just add this peace of CSS in the CSS section (in the admin settings):

/* make your own style of the filter */

@auto_grid .auto-grid-filters-container{
    margin-bottom: 40px;
}
@auto_grid .auto-grid-filters-container{
    padding: 0;
    text-align: center;
}
@auto_grid .media-boxes-filter li{
    list-style: none;
    display: inline-block;
    margin: 0 9px !important;
}
@auto_grid .media-boxes-filter li a{
    color: #999;
    text-decoration: none;
    background: transparent !important;
    padding: 0;
    border: 0;
    font-size: 12px;
}
@auto_grid .media-boxes-filter li a:hover{
    color: #333;
}
@auto_grid .media-boxes-filter li a.selected{
    color: #D1474C !important;
    background: transparent !important;
    box-shadow: none !important;
}

Ah, nevermind. It was caching the old version. Thanks!

awesome, glad you figured out

Hi,
Thank you

Do you mean the round corners of the images in the grid? can you show me a living example online? so I can provide an exact CSS solution for this, you can contact me privately via email here: https://codecanyon.net/user/castlecode#contact

Best, David