I just tagged version 0.2.0 if the plugin with loads of new features, including updates to the picker. It will hopefully look better for you now.
Absolutely AMAZING! Game changer for me, as I was working out how to set up my photography site and hated the idea of paying for WP storage. Thank your so much for your work 🙏
One question. Is there a simple way to make the Lightbox background solid black? Not of fan of seeing the ui peaking through slideshows!
There’s no option to set the background colour but if you drop this in Appearance -> Customize -> Additional CSS (or your theme’s custom CSS), this should work:
.immich-lightbox,
.immich-album-overlay {
background: #000;
}
awesome. worked a treat. So I’ll just make a custom block and reuse that. Thanks for the speedy reply!
Sorry to hassle you, but there is one problem I’ve encountered:
Your Immich Album Gallery Plugin Block:
When I turn on ‘Show Captions’, the gallery displays the file name, not the image description.
with
Gallery for Immich Plugin
Turn on Asset Description: Captions appear correctly – instantly updating as they are edited in Immich.
Your plugin is vastly superior is so many ways, so if you could take a look, I’d appreciate it!
example page
https://steven-williams.com/2026/06/04/shadows-2/
Cheers
This plugin doesn’t fetch the EXIF description, only the filename, which is why you’re seeing that. I’m looking into fixing that (with Claude) and should have a PR you can test later.
It also caches items so any changes you make on the Immich side will be delayed unless you clear the cache. I regard that as a worthwhile trade-off. You don’t want to be hitting your Immich server the whole time.
Give the code changes in this PR a go. https://github.com/donnchawp/media-picker-for-immich/pull/30
I’ll test it on my own dev server later. Real life is getting in the way.
Just tested it and it works well. Have to wait for the 5 minute TTL or click the Refresh link under the gallery if you have that setting enabled.
Awesome!! Working great.
And such a speedy response!
‘Refresh this album from Immich’ appears always. I guess this is necessary to refresh browser cache?
Gratuitous request:
1: Option to maintain the same white border for the light box images that you use for the thumbnails. (I do a lot of high contrast pics, and like me some white borders).
2: Option for Thumbnails be Original Size, rather than cropped 1:1
Many thanks. 🙏
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Those are good ideas, and allowing the plugin to define the background colour of the album is worth adding too. Could you please create some issues for me in https://github.com/donnchawp/media-picker-for-immich/issues?q=sort%3Aupdated-desc+is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+ so I don’t forget?
The refresh link isn’t shown to logged out users, but it’s a tiny useful way to clear that cache.
Ah. Makes sense.
I’ve plopped a fresh issue into GitHub.
also added a request to make the lightbox swipe-able on mobile, like the ‘alternative’ Immich plugin.
really like the way you formatted the descriptions, much better than the alternative plugin. 👍
