382 comments found.
Hi, very interested in this plugin. When I looked at it a few months ago, galleries were displayed just by uploading images to a folder and then calling that folder in the shortcode on the page/post you wanted it to appear. It seems now you have to first “create” the gallery in the settings first. Is it still possible to display a set of images in a post the old way (ie adding the folder path in the shortcode)?
Hi,
Currently no, since now each gallery has their own settings (so each gallery can be totally different from the other in their options).
But it sounds like it can be done, just by using the same shortcode everywhere and be able to specify a different directory in different pages/posts, something like this:
[auto_grid id="gallery" directory="galleries/gallery1"] [auto_grid id="gallery" directory="galleries/gallery2"] [auto_grid id="gallery" directory="galleries/gallery3"] [auto_grid id="gallery" directory="galleries/gallery4"]so the same id of settings but different directory on different page/post
I’ll try to add the directory parameter as an update
Best, David
Ok, thanks. Thats good to heard. Picked up the plugin and will try your suggestion. Looking fwd to it being added as an update.
Hello, I just bought your Auto Grid Wordpress plugin and I started to customize my portfolio. First of all, congratulations for your plugin, it is very complete and very practical to use. However, I have a question, I would like to make appear a text in addition to the title at the bottom of the FancyBox. This text would be called with the text variable I would have added before in the .txt file I have modified the code in several ways but no way to get my way.
Would you tell me how to do it please? Is there a way of not including the variable if it is empty?
My variable is {{text}}.
Here is the current HTML code :
{{name}} {{filter}}The HTML Code : https://codepen.io/anon/pen/yzgyYN
Hi,
thank you
About your concern, try using this HTML:
<div class="media-box-image mb-open-popup" {{link}} data-src="{{popup_src}}" data-title="{{name}} <div hide_if_empty=\"{{text}}\">{{text}}</div>" data-type="{{popup_type}}">
<div data-thumbnail="{{thumb_src}}" {{ratio}} data-title="{{name}}" data-alt="{{name}}"></div>
<div class="thumbnail-overlay">
<div class="thumbnail-overlay-animated" data-from="top">
<div class="media-box-title">{{name}}</div>
</div>
<div class="thumbnail-overlay-animated" data-from="bottom">
<div class="media-box-date">{{filter}}</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Best, David
Thanks for your reactivity! Here’s what it gives me:
https://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/309934Capturedecran20170925a180606.png
It doesn’t seem to work, I don’t think that can accept the div in the opening of another div.
Hi,
Try with this one (I replace the double quote with single quote):
' <div class="media-box-image mb-open-popup" data-src="{{popup_src}}" data-title="{{name}} <div hide_if_empty=\'{{name}}\'>{{name}}</div>" data-type="{{popup_type}}">'+
'<div data-thumbnail="{{thumb_src}}" data-title="{{name}}" data-alt="{{name}}" />'+
'<div class="thumbnail-overlay">'+
'<div class="thumbnail-overlay-animated" data-from="top">'+
'<div class="media-box-title">{{name}}</div>'+
'</div>'+
'<div class="thumbnail-overlay-animated" data-from="bottom">'+
'<div class="media-box-date">{{filter}}</div>'+
'</div>'+
'</div>'+
'</div> ',
then go to the jquery.autoGrid.js file and find this:
template = template.split('hide_if_empty="{{'+variable+'}}"').join('');
and right after that line add this code:
template = template.split("hide_if_empty='{{"+variable+"}}'").join('');
I hope it makes sense
I have applied all your modifications and the portfolio no longer works. It does not appear any more
Hi,
Ohh true, it should be {{text}} instead of {{name}} (I was just testing with the name variable) but it should be this:
data-title="{{name}} <div hide_if_empty="\"{{text}}\"">{{text}}</div>"
if still doesn’t work any chance you could show me a living example online so I can take a look and see what’s going on?
in the portfolio.php example I tried with this one:
' <div class="media-box-image"> '+
' <div data-thumbnail="{{thumb_src}}" data-title="{{name}}" data-alt="{{name}}" /> '+
' <div class="thumbnail-overlay"> '+
' <a href="#" class="mb-open-popup btn btn-sm btn-default" data-src="{{popup_src}}" data-title="{{name}} <div hide_if_empty=\'{{text}}\'>{{text}}</div>"> '+
' View Larger '+
' </a> '+
' <a hide_if_empty="{{link}}" class="btn btn-sm btn-default">More Details</a> '+
' </div> '+
' </div> ' +
' <div class="media-box-content"> '+
' <div class="media-box-categories"><span>{{filter}}</span></div> '+
' <div class="media-box-title">{{name}}</div> '+
' <div class="media-box-text"> '+
' {{text}} '+
' </div> '+
' </div> ',
and it works great, it shows the text right after the name of the image in fancybox
Best, David
You can also contact me privately via email (through my profile at the bottom there’s a contact form) for better support 
Ohhh, my bad, sorry sorry, I though you were using the stand alone version, but I see now that you are using the WP version, let me send you the snippet for the WP version
<div class="media-box-image mb-open-popup" {{link}} data-src="{{popup_src}}" data-title="{{name}} <div hide_if_empty=\'{{text}}\'>{{text}}</div>" data-type="{{popup_type}}">
<div data-thumbnail="{{thumb_src}}" {{ratio}} data-title="{{name}}" data-alt="{{name}}"></div>
<div class="thumbnail-overlay">
<div class="thumbnail-overlay-animated" data-from="top">
<div class="media-box-title">{{name}}</div>
</div>
<div class="thumbnail-overlay-animated" data-from="bottom">
<div class="media-box-date">{{filter}}</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
if still doesn’t work, can you still show me a living example online?
Realized something is wrong in the WP version with the quotes, let me check it out and I’ll get back to you with the final snippet
(in couple of hours as I’m away from my computer)
I sent you a private message with the online example
I wrote a text variable for the image with a sheep in the Print category if you want to test with this image.
Hi,
I answered you via email 
Looking for the latest way to edit the color in the css file for the nav bar. what’s the name of that file. Looked through several css files couldn’t find it.
Hi,
here are the CSS selectors for the filters:
.media-boxes-filter .media-boxes-filter li .media-boxes-filter li aalso don’t forget to renew your support period
Best, David
[galleries]
|- [weddings]
|- [wedding 1]
|- [wedding 2]
|- [wedding 3]
|- [events]
|- [event 1]
|- [event 2]
|- [event 3]
The filter tabs are to show only All [ Events ]
And, the text information are to appear below wedding 1 – 3, and event 1 – 3.
I want to achieve these, but I cannot figure out how to.
Please advise. Thank you.
Hi,
1) you mean you wish to hide some of the filters?
2) also which text information? the name of the image?
can you show me a living example online so I can see what you mean visually? Also you can contact me privately via email here: https://codecanyon.net/user/castlecode#contact
Best, David
Why is the plugin’s folder name so long? ... Like so “castlecodeweb-wp_auto_grid-xxxxxxxxxx”. Can I simply rename it to just “wp_auto_grid”, and if so, will it still function? Please advise soon. Thank you.
Hello
Unzip the file you download from codecanyon and inside you will find a file name wp_auto_grid.zip that’s the plugin you need to upload into wp
Best, David
Yes. I’ve already done that. But re-read my question …
Ohh, you are downloading the plugin by using the link that says “Installable Wordpress file only”? (I though you were using the link “All files & documentation)
If so, then yes, you can rename the .zip file, but at the end WP will unzip that file and inside the actual name of the plugin is “wp_auto_grid”
Best, David
[facepalm]
Can you understand what I’ve asked …? Let me say again in very simple English …
After installation, your plugin’s folder name is “castlecodeweb-wp_auto_grid-xxxxxxxxxx”. Why is the folder name so long? Why not just “wp_auto_grid” ...? Simple, and short …
I hope this is clearer.

So … what’s your advice?
Edited
Ohh wait, I saw that you edited your answer, you didn’t mentioned before that this was after installation, the folder shouldn’t be that long, it should be “wp_auto_grid” I tried locally and on my hosting and I don’t get that very long name.
Yes you can rename it still and it will work though
Noted. Thank you.
Hi,
I found the issue (a repository was re-naming the folder when compressing) I’m pushing the fix for this issue to CodeCanyon so in future updates this doesn’t happen again
thank you for reporting this
Best, David
Oh!? ... I’m surprised about this issue. Cheers …
Hi,
I have purchased this plugin – license: faa4bcd8-2042-4e91-85fd-209212cf4b3f – and am unable to install it from the zip file. Do you have instructions for manual installation?
Thanks
I have tried everything, deactivated all other plugins, theme etc. and I just get an error message saying ‘Are you sure you want to do this? Please try again.’ 
Hi,
You need to unzip the file you download from CodeCanyon, inside you’ll find a documentation folder and a file name “wp_auto_grid.zip” that’s the file you need to upload into WP.
Here’s the docs so you can see this step by step:
http://www.castlecodeweb.com/wp-autogrid/documentation/#installation
Best 
Hi, yes I did that and the install failed. I got an error message as stated above
Hi, very strange, I tried the plugin in several wp installations and it hasn’t failed, can you contact me via email? (Through my profile at the bottom there’s a contact form)
I will send you the plugin via email (in case in got corrupted when unzipping it)
Also I would like to see a screen shot of the error
Best, David
Thank you
I’ll send you a message with screen shot now
Glad its working now 
I just purchased this plugin, but I can’t figure out how to install it in WordPress. Can you please guide me through the steps?
Thank you, Cynthia
Hi Cynthia,
First you need to unzip the file you downloaded from CodeCanyon, inside you’ll find a documentation folder (just double click the .html file)
Also you’ll find a file named “autoGrid.zip”, that’s the file you need to upload to Wordpress (in the plugins page)
I hope this makes sense 
Please forgive my ignorance if this has already been covered. For the two WP plugins (WP Auto Photo Albums & WP Auto Grid Responsive Gallery) do the images have to be part of WP? I.E. in the media library or am I able to just upload images to any folder on my server and it will grab them from there? I am hoping to not use up a lot of my SQL storage space so if it can pull them from any folder and it doesn’t have to be part of the media library that is great.
Hi there,
the plugin doesn’t use the wp-gallery at all, by default the plugin uses a folder inside your WP installation named Gallery (in this loaction wp-content/plugins/autoAlbums/Gallery)
you can change the path of that in the settings by doing a relative path from that folder
I hope it makes sense 
Hi. Today I purchased your WP gallery. I also have standalone version. When I paste shortcode there is nothing. What can be problem?
Hi Dejan,
I’m glad you found the problem
Best,
David
Hi there,
I updated my home folder name and now I am getting “invalid home folder” errors. What should I reset the home folder to?
Thanks so much!
Hi there,
I don’t quite understand, the plugin is throwing that error? any chance you could show me a living example online so I can take a look?
Best, David
Nice option to have url in the file name but what can I do if I have slash in my url like: example photo$$google.com/page1.html.jpg ?
Thanks 
Is it possible to have different number of columns in different pages with shortcode?
Hi, at this moment is not possible, but I’m planning an update that will take care of this 
Excellent 
Hi again! How soon you are planning to update this feature? Actually I’m quite hurry with this feature 
Hi there,
well currently I’m working on the WP version of the Media Boxes and after that I will make a huge update for the auto grid (stand alone version) and after that the WP version will get a huge update as well (this feature will be included).
But if this is urgent and necessary for you maybe we can tweak the current version under freelance basis, if that’s the case you can contact me privately via email through here: https://codecanyon.net/user/castlecode#contact
Best 
Any news about update with different number of columns in different pages ?
Hi,
I’m actually about to release a huge update for the Auto Grid (the stand alone version) in a couple of days, and then I’ll get this update to the Auto Grid WP version!
In that update I will include separate settings for each gallery/shortcode
Best 
Hi Again
Copy Paste Question
Any news about update with different number of columns in different pages? 
Hi,
I released the update for the Auto Grid, you can check it out here: http://www.castlecodeweb.com/autogrid/example/
now I will start working on the WP version of the Auto Grid
hopefully doesn’t take me long
Hi! Any updated news about update? 
Hi,
The plugin is ready, you can see it in action here: http://www.castlecodeweb.com/wp-autogrid/
I just need to make the documentation and then I’ll push the update to CodeCanyon
Also don’t forget to renew your support period 
Thanx! 
Hello Support Team,
Just a quick question. Is it possible to add alt tags to the images the plugin uses? This is important because of SEO utilization.
Please let me know. Thanks.
Hi there,
the plugin is using the name of the image as “alt” and “title” attributes on the images, is it not working for you?
Best, David
Hi, your plugin looks interesting, but 1 thing is not clear to me: does the folder with images have to be inside plugins directory? Or can it be above plugins, for example in wp-content or ideally in top WordPress directory (for SEO purposes)?
Also, is it possible to have horizontal masonry (justified grid) instead of vertical?
Hi there,
it can be outside the plugins directory, you can specify a relative path from the plugins folder, for example like this:
../../galleryabout the layout, the “justified grid” layout is not supported
Best
can we store images on Amazons3 and pull them from there on our website? Thanks for the nice plugin. Iftikhar
Hi there,
Currently this is not possible, the plugin can only pull images within the same server where your page is
Best, David
Thanks
Hello, Im just about to purchase this item but before i do i just wanted to see if it was possible to scale all the images/layout down for a mobile rather then having the image stacked on top of each other. Is this possible?
Hi there,
do you mean have 2 or 3 columns on mobile rather than just 1 column?
yes thats what i mean…
Sorry my apologies, Ive just looked on my phone again and there is 3 columns now. Please feel free to delete this comment…
Don’t worry
,
You can configure this as well, there’s a setting named “minimum width of each column” you can set it for example to something like 220px, if the width (depending on the resolution you are) of each column is less than this setting the plugin will reduce the number of columns (so each column is wider and more than the 220px)
if you don’t want this responsive behavior and always want to keep the same columns in all resolutions you can set this setting to 0
I hope this makes sense 
Hi, Nice plugin.
However, i would like to hide/disable the “Search google for Image” text on right click of the light box images. How can I do that?
Thanks
Hi, the right click is “search google for image” is beyond the scope of the plugin, as its a feature from Chrome, I personally don’t see it because I have the “adblock” extension on Google Chrome.
But the only way I can imagine to disable it is to disable the right click completely, but of course you will loose the save as and all the other options
Best, David
Just a quick question. Is it possible to link the images to another location. For example, I upload the image of a brochure design and when it shows up full size the user can click on it to open a PDF to view to entire brochure. Is this possible?
Hello,
Try the following:
open the autoGrid.js file (in the root directory of the plugin) and find this:
linkOnLightbox: false,then replace it for this:
linkOnLightbox: true,then use the normal “linking to an url” method that’s mentioned in the docs
Best, David
Hi,
I have found your wordpress auto grid galleries. There are two versions. Is there a way to combine them together. There are cool visual effects in the autogrid responsive gallery and in the other one there are the possibility of subfolders. We need both!
And something else: We would like to allow people to comment the images, but lot’s of them have no facebook account. Do you have this feature included? For our needs the “Ajax Lightbox Image Comment”-Plugin would be great. Is it compatible with your gallery. Or can I combine with any lightbox-plugin for the galleries, which I have made with yours?
Hello there,
The 2 plugins are separately and unfortunately can’t be combined together.
Also currently there’s no social comment feature that comes with the plugin, only some FB, twitter, pinterest sharing buttons in the lightbox.
Best, David
Thanks for your fast reply!
And can I combine the plugin with a separate lightbox plugin?
Kind regards Donat
Hi Donat,
it may be tricky, but mostly at the end will depend on the type of lightbox, the lightbox must be a stand alone plugin and be able to read images that are added to the gallery after the initialization (async images) like Fancybox or Magnific Popup
Best, David
Okay, I will give it a try!
Can you tell my now, how I can enable the external lightbox with your autogrid? I have installed fancybox and magnific popup and both are not working together with autogrid. I’d finally would like to use EverlightBox, which has a comment feature in a facebook style. Maybe you are doing the same once, then I don’t need EverlightBox, since your plugin looks great. Everlightbox wrote: You ask the author of autogrid which is the css selector to activate external lightboxes on his plugin. So can you give me a hint to activate this?
Kind regards, Donat
Hi Donat,
The selector for the thumbnail is this one:
img[data-lightbox]and the URL of the image for the lightbox is in the
data-lightbox attribute of that thumbnail
I hope that makes sense
Best, David
Hi. So I bought and installed the AutoGrid plugin. What’s next? I can’t find it on my dashboard. How do I use this? Currently using themify. Can I have a short walkthrough? Thanks.
Hi there,
yes of course, here’s the basic:
a) Activate the plugin in your plugin’s page
b) Put this shortcode in some page or post: [autoGrid]
and then check out that page and you should be able to see a gallery right away (since the plugin comes with a default one)
c) Probably you want to put your own images and folders, so connect with FTP to your server (where you have the WP files) and navigate to this location: wp-content/plugins/autoGrid/gallery that’s the gallery folder, so you can just drag and drop your images in there and you will see the changes automatically in your page/post once you refresh the page.
so when you wish to add/delete images to the gallery, just connect via FTP to your WP and drag and drop images into the gallery folder and that’s it
d) Now if you want to change some settings you can navigate in your WP dashboard to this options page: http://www.davidbo.dreamhosters.com/files/documentation/#Options
c) also you can read the documentation here: http://www.davidbo.dreamhosters.com/files/documentation
I hope this makes sense 