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Just want to say thanks for all of your support this year. I’ve had a few issues and you fixed them and responded quickly here. All the best for 2024.
I appreciate the kind words!
Having an issues where I get a error message ””The image could not be loaded” once again on mobile but desktop seems fine. Have had this in the past and usually turn off plugins form combining javascripts but I went and turned off all plugins and themes with no luck. website is https://www.willpursell.com/
Sorry for the delay. All 12 images load for me on both desktop and an Android device. Is there a particular browser/OS combo where you get this problem?
Those kind of plugins can stay enabled, but usually jQuery needs to be excluded from optimizations to not interfere with inline scripts on the page.
Since the WordPress 6.4.1 update, the Justified Image Grid plugin stopped working. It messes up the website throwing an Ajax error. Is this a known something?
Where do you see an AJAX error and what does it say? If it’s on the frontend can you please send a link?
The Facebook authorization is expiring in a few days. When I click on “Add current Facebook user (and all administered pages), in the Facebook window that opens there is an error: Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.
The message log in JIG shows: Access token acquisition wasn’t successful. Please authorize yourself on Facebook then click ‘Manually load Facebook data’. If you already closed the Facebook dialog, click ‘Add current Facebook user’ again.
I tried disabling the cache before adding the Facebook user, it didn’t help.
Thanks, Tom
Contact me through my profile using the account used to purchase JIG with (or let me know what site it’s used on so I can check), and I can send you the latest beta that aims to fix this.
pictures are not even showing up in google. look at the page source and it one big mess lines
JIG creates a HTML-only version of the gallery for users without JS and for search engines. The source is only for machines, it’s not supposed to be pretty. Look: https://www.google.com/search?q=Red+border+collie+and+horse+site%3Ajustifiedgrid.com&client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=575503381&sxsrf=AM9HkKkL2o-N8QW78VzCXqFOXJN04tUQaQ%3A1697928722946&ei=ElY0ZfWUOcnk7_UPmaOC-As&ved=0ahUKEwj15YmznYiCAxVJ8rsIHZmRAL8Q4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=Red+border+collie+and+horse+site%3Ajustifiedgrid.com&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiMlJlZCBib3JkZXIgY29sbGllIGFuZCBob3JzZSBzaXRlOmp1c3RpZmllZGdyaWQuY29tSJQ0UL8EWMAycAV4AJABAJgBrwGgAd0QqgEEMjMuNLgBA8gBAPgBAcICCxAAGIoFGIYDGLADwgIFECEYoAHCAggQIRgWGB4YHcICBxAhGKABGArCAgQQIRgV4gMEGAEgQYgGAZAGBA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp
Hi, I’d like to use your plugin but just wondered if it’s possible to have images open up in a lightbox style pop-up with a magnification option to allow for further zooming in? Thanks!
Yes, this built-in lightbox supports zooming in: https://justifiedgrid.com/lightboxes/photoswipe/
That’s great thanks.
LOAD MORE BUTTON CSS – could you provide an example of how you would make the “Load More” button a down arrow instead of displaying text? Is this super easy and I’m just missing something?
Well, you can use HTML in the “Load more text” setting, so if you got a suitable SVG image you can embed it there. For example:
I got it from: https://iconmonstr.com/arrow/
For the “Load more count text” setting either clear the field in the plugin settings, or enter the word none if you are editing a single grid.
For “Load More CSS” in the plugin settings you might want to replace it with something that just gives a boundary for the arrow but doesn’t look like a box. For example:
padding: 10px; margin: 5px auto 15px; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; text-align: center;
And nothing for the “Load more hover CSS” setting.
At https://www.christchurchheadshotphotographer.co.nz there is a delay loading the grid and on occasion I see red text with a java script error briefly pop up prior to it loading. I don’t have this issue on the other sites I have using this plugin- it’s exclusive to this domain.
I worry it fails to load for some visitors which is not the result I want being a commercial site that generates me income. Any ideas on how to test this more and see these errors? Also why is there a considerable delay for it to even load? Thanks!
The caching plugin “defers” the script of the plugin. jQuery is correctly not deferred. I don’t see any errors in the console or see anything else besides the yellow placeholders briefly during loading. If the deferred script takes too long to arrive, that might cause the inline init script of JIG think that it’s not coming. But it wasn’t so in my test as everything is fast (page loads in around 1s). Even when I throttle the speed, there is nothing out of the ordinary, just the thumbnails take longer to arrive.
OK thanks. I’ll keep an eye on it.
I would like to find a compatible third-party plug-in that will provide a simple method to build a form to upload images with title, excerpt, description fields, but also expose JIG Link, JIG Target, and Folder fields. You have this support FAQ on your website, but the suggested plug-in hasn’t been active for over two-years: https://justifiedgrid.com/support/faq/is-it-possible-to-have-frontend-upload-for-visitors/ – could you provide an update and suggest a possible solution that is active/supported? I would think this would be a popular need. I’m familiar with the Flickr option, but would prefer web users not need to sign up for an account with a third-party to simply submit an image to appear in a JIG gallery with appropriate JIG custom fields.
How about those plugins that create fields? Not necessarily for even more fields but WCK pro has this article: https://www.cozmoslabs.com/docs/wordpress-creation-kit-documentation/frontend-posting/
A plugin that hasn’t been updated in 2 years can still work, I use some of those. This frontend upload need is not so popular among JIG support requests so I haven’t been keeping up to date about it. I’d probably approach the issue with a custom solution. Perhaps I could help with that if you can’t find a suitable/free solution. But do look for something that is “close enough” and we could bridge the gap.
I am using JIG Links om media images to open a YouTube link in a lightbox upon click. Works marvelously. Now I have installed WPML to translate our website into 15+ languages (education website). Via the WPML media translation tool, I’m able to edit name, caption, alt text, description. However the fields for “JIG Link” and “JIG Target” are not available under the WPML media translation fields. Is it possible to translate the JIG Link and JIG Target fields attached to images? This is the only “feature” that is missing that is keeping us from using JIG from pretty much all our gallery needs.
If you follow their guide, do you see these JIG fields in the table, so you could mark them as translatable? https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/translating-custom-fields/
It didn’t occur to me that links should be translated but it makes sense if they point to different language content. If the above is not viable I’ll solve it by code.
No, I only have eight fields in that table: ast-site-content-layout astra-migrate-meta-layouts footnotes origin site-content-styles site-sidebar-layout site-sidebar-style theme-transparent-header-meta
I don’t believe any of these have anything to do with JIG. Could you possibly code this? It would be really helpful for our project as we could then use JIG for just about all our needs.
I tried this and it works fine without a change on my end.
1. Enable the classic editor: https://i.justifiedgrid.com/s244lc.png
2. Go to the edit page of a single image like this https://i.justifiedgrid.com/s244kt.png
3. Fill the field in one language and “Update”: https://i.justifiedgrid.com/s244t3.png
4. Switch to the other from the bar: https://i.justifiedgrid.com/s244uh.png
5. Fill in the fields using the other language: https://i.justifiedgrid.com/s244wb.png
You can verify the values stick by switching between languages back and forth. If you put the same JIG gallery into a post/page that is translated into both languages, you’ll see the changes happen as you switch languages (they’ll point to a different address).
Tested with WPML 4.6.6, WP 6.3.1, beta JIG.
Efficient manual use of WPML requires a meticulous process, always knowing which language you are on in the admin, especially when creating new content, what is the translation of what. Unfortunately I’ve seen and had to untangle multilanguage sites that weren’t set up cautiously, it’s very easy to make mistakes and get lost in that plugin as it’s very powerful and there are multiple ways to do the same thing, even now with automation and AI.
Also you might not even need the Media Translation add-on: https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/media-translation/ In my test I didn’t have it at all. Normal WPML can do just fine if you use the same images in all languages, just their captions and links need to be different.
Another question. Can you add video to the gallery as well as images?
Yes, but they won’t be among the thumbnails, only in the lightbox: https://justifiedgrid.com/features/video-gallery-support/
oh ok. That’s disappointing. Any plans to add this feature?
Well, since I’ve dropped “image” from my domain name, yeah I’m open to making this a Justified Grid of anything. But that kind of capability would naturally come as part of a rewrite, which is still a long way out, but I’m learning new or more modern ways to solve these things.
That sounds great. I really admire and appreciate your dedication to this plugin. Thanks very much
I’ve never had any problems with JIG Gallery. Now for the first time there is the problem that my last album(flickr) is not found under JIG? It is displayed on flickr. Are there any changes at the moment?
Was it a caching problem or does the issue still persist?
There is a built-in caching which causes a delay. So if you’ve just created a gallery and then check it on your site, it’ll take like an hour (configurable). Furthermore, caching plugins’ page cache can further delay this but you generally only see stale content while being logged out.
Hello, Can I have Photos and Self hosted Videos in the same Gallery?
Yep, them and the video thumbnails would all come from the media library.
Does the plugin have a row & column limit, a size restriction in any way, and/or a limit in other ways?
You set the limit for row heights. There is no limit on the amount of rows. JIG doesn’t use the concept of columns, you can have any number of thumbnails per row, but it’s automatic and is not a setting. Size restriction is not enforced but it’s good practice to not serve print resolution images. Customers have been known to stuff 1000+ images in a single gallery (relying heavily on filters and load more, not expecting customers to view/load all that at once of course). Mind you that there is no pagination or search yet.
Is it possible to create a JIG gallery out of auto-playing videos? I don’t mean thumbnail images or GIFs that link to videos, but actual embedded videos.
Nope, for now as the name says it’s an image grid 
But I have plans to make a grid out of anything even text. For now, it must be an image format that is recognized by the WP media library with dimensions detected.
Hi There
I have owned this pluging for years and play with it from time to time and then end up forgettig about it and then deleting it from the website of my choice at the time.
My questio is not related to support but more features. I wat to use the plugin for SEO purposes by naming all my pictures correctly with decriptions, alt ats etc as one does ad then have these pictures found via my sitemap.
So far so good
My sitemap shows my JIG picture page no problem as you can see here. https://okinawarentalcar.com/pictures-from-okinawa/
However the site map does not expand from that point and show the images with their names as per say a post etc or even an image in a post.
Also if I right click the image for download the image title name is the name of the image I uploaded ad not the new name I provided i the media upload.
For exaple this image that you cat see as there is no link was named “Sesoko Island Bridge” but when I right click for download the name is this “A11F26DD-9663-4C29-A584-F4E6EE19341F-Copy-1024×576”
My question is this: Is there a setting I can click to show these new descriptions so that Google sees them and will show them.
Do I need additional support from you to achieve this?
Is it impossible to show desciptions at titles etc to Google via this plugin?
This plugin is great but its only half as great without SEO and I want to leave some positive feed back.
Please advise me on this simple question
By the way I use Rankmath, XML Sitemap Generator for Google
I appreciate your answer to this
The name of the file doesn’t change normally in the WP media library with title changes, and it’s not the plugin’s responsibility to alter that. There are other plugins that take care of this such as Jordy’s https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-file-renamer/
If you meaningfully fill out the images’ Media Library fields, you need to select them as img alt or link title on JIG’s Lightobxes tab (since these fields are also used by the lightboxes) even if you don’t intend to use a lightbox or show the text (they could be hidden via Custom CSS if they really serve no purpose other than for search engines).
Since JIG display is heavily JS-based, JS-less user agents and search engine bots often just see the HTML version which is dumbed down, doesn’t look as good, but still receives all the texts associated with the gallery (that you choose to display as caption on the thumbnails, and in the lightbox). Because of this structure existing the noscript tag, and generated as a shortcode output, not all SEO plugins pick up as image links to be included in the sitemap. Official support is there for Yoast SEO plugin’s XML sitemap only at the moment. I see that Rankmath may be superior, but I’m yet to add compatibility. In case of Yoast, there is a process that walks all the content on the site, but that just looks at the content. I needed to enable shortcode processing and then output a list of images in a simplified way for the SEO plugin to properly find the images so they would end up in the sitemap when inspecting the xml source of it.
This takes some digesting. Thank you for the comprehensive answer all the same. I am not really sure what you have told me ultimately
Short story is that I haven’t yet worked with Rankmath and the sitemap feature works with a different plugin. Media file names are not JIG’s responsibility and I hinted at a good free plugin that can help. Google sees a different, simpler version of the gallery. The text you wish to use for SEO on the images coincides with the text to show in the lightbox.
hello. what about SEO and sitemap? does all images will have their own links so we increase SEO ranks?
WordPress has a great concept called attachment pages but almost nobody makes good use of them. It’s a page for every image in the library. JIG can link to these pages intead of the lightbox, but unless they look great an useful, they are not of much use. Most people just use the lightbox.
Yoast SEO plugin’s Sitemap feature is connected to JIG, I don’t know of another setup where the plugins would find images embedded with JIG. I’ll probably add Rankmath compatibility in an update.
Hi, I tried to add exif as caption under picture, based on your instruction (from few years ago…), so I installed and activated exifography plugin, added to child theme lines:
function jig_show_exif($metadata, $object_id, $meta_key, $single) { if(isset($meta_key) && $meta_key == ‘jig_exif’){ return exifography_display_exif(‘aperture,shutter,iso’,$object_id); } // Return original if the check does not pass return $metadata; } add_filter(‘get_post_metadata’, ‘jig_show_exif’, 10, 4);
changed Exifography options and in section What text to show inside the lightbox I selected Custom field and in the Lightbox custom field set jig_show_exif
It does not work. What I did wrong?
If your meta key in the code is jig_exif then set that as the custom field too, so jig_exif not jig_show_exif.
In your case jig_show_exif is the function name, not the label of the virtual custom field.
Thanks! It works!
I love this plugin and one of my favs for displaying content.
Question: I see someone else has asked something similar. I run a photography website and want to display the most recent x photo uploads in member uploads folders based on date. It uses WP RML.
Under General settings > Settings that affect the entire grid Order By = The order of images (only for images/posts from WP, or NextGEN, except Random).
Is there any way to display the last x images in the WP RML folder structure based on date?
https://ruapehuphotographygroup.com Scroll down to most recent.Thanks
Well, there is this: https://i.justifiedgrid.com/rycb8a.png So any point in the tree you pick becomes a flattened gallery. Then, set the order by to date descending. If the images are not combed together the way you expect, I can make changes to make it more usable but it should work the way you describe.
Finally back looking at this and double checked settings as mentioned above. Still not displaying as expected. I made some more notes here:
https://ruapehuphotographygroup.com/grid-sorting/It just lays out your galleries one after the other, no? The images are in the right order within each gallery, but not merged into a big pool. I’d like to work with you to make this flattening feature more useful. Not many people use this option, and when the flattening stops at the gallery level (not their contents), then the order is fine as they are manually positioned and the “one after the other” is the expected. But in your case you want all of the images put in a pool together, then have the order applied, then the limit. Is that right?
Does it auto scroll? I need a banner of 4 images autoscrolling through a gallery
Nope, sorry
