Let me know please … but for now I need to deactivate this Plugin and find another solution 🙁
Sorry for the trouble, and thank you for the screenshots, they helped a lot! 😊
The standard WordPress gallery widget is supported. I rebuilt your exact case on my side (gallery widget in a footer column, thumbnails, Link To set to Attachment Page) and the plugin does replace the href correctly. Your links are properly saved too, I can see them in your second screenshot. So the setup is fine, and it is very likely a single setting.
Please go to Meow Apps → Custom Links and check two things:
- First, OB Mode must be enabled. Your icons are in the footer, and without OB Mode the plugin only goes through the main content of the post or page, so anything sitting in a footer, a sidebar or a header is never touched. On its own, that explains exactly what you are seeing.
- Second, Parsing Engine should be set to HtmlDomParser. With the Javascript engine, nothing is rewritten in the HTML at all, so the href stays untouched even when everything else is correct.
Then clear your cache (I noticed a caching plugin in your admin bar) and reload the page.
If it still does not work after that, one last thing to rule out: images inserted by the gallery widget do not carry their media ID in the HTML, so the plugin has to find them back from the file URL. If you use a CDN or an offload plugin that rewrites your image URLs, that lookup can fail.
By the way, while looking into your report I found a genuine bug in the Javascript engine, so thanks for that, it will be fixed in the next release.
Cheers,
Jordy.
