lightbox/zoom-in not working in Album

“zoom in” in the albums

I do not exactly understand your question.
The thumbnails have now a popup function: if you hover over them, they pop-up larger.
Zoom-in in wppa+ is the (embedded) lightbox feature. See Table VI-(B), where you can select Link type: lightbox. Then you get a magnifier glass cursor, and a lightbox view when you click on the image.

Import:
If you have many pictures, and regular iuploading takes too much time:
Ftp them to your ‘depot’ directory, ususlly
.../wp-content/wppa-depot/{yourloginname}/
and use the Photo ALbums -> Import admin page.
The difference between the Import and the Start Ajax Import buttons is the method. The regular Import button causes a page reload; when server time-out is going to happen, it stops and tries to restart. The Ajax method is much user friendlier, it does import them one by one while you can watch the progress and it will never time-out. Highly recommended!

Make sure you have Table IX-H1,2,4 ticked. Do NOT change Table IX-H3 !!
The wppa-source directory will be created and maintained automaticly. It will contain the photo files as you upload/import them, organized in album sub-folders. These files can be used for hi-res display, download, and remake of ‘normal’ resized display images and thumbnails. You need no ‘manual’ action therein.

The files in …/wp-content/uploads/wppa/ and …/wp-content/uploads/wppa/thumbs/ will be created automaticly. The files in wppa are the resized images as defined in Table I-A2 and 3. The files in …/wppa/thumbs/ are the thumbnail image files, auto created in the size you need ( max of pop-up size, cover image size, thumbnail size, etc… ). If you change a size of one or more of the ‘small’ images that requires the thumbnail to be remade, you will get a message and instructions what to do (Run a maint proc in Table VIII).

Hope this helps.

Use the import with the Ajax import button. It is not slower than the other method, but when having very many, you can have spurious server errors (500). You can see that on the import-Ajax screen, and re-try by ticking the box again.

If you have your photos organized in folders and sub-folders, you can ftp full directory trees, and import them ( NOT Ajax ). This will auto create albums and sub-albums with names like the folders. Let it auto restart after time-out, and do not touch your keyboard until completion or error or broken process.

Pls use my new documentation site, register if you want to see everything ( especially geographic data (google maps) and members page ). I am still working on it and try to cover everything, also admin pages. The new site is mobile friendly and much faster.

Speed: I used to be – in a previous IT life, on so called super mini computers – a performance optimizing specialist. Is is always a challenge for me to keep wppa as fast as possible: i.e. to do as little as possible, to use all kind of internal caching mechanisms to save queries etc. so, speed is one of my continuous concerns while working on wppa+.

Please do not add caching plugins or plugins that reorganize script files or ‘optimize’ html code if you do not exactly know the impact of them; most of the time they either slow down wppa or affect its functionality. Example of wrong ‘speeding up’: delay the load of js files. What do you want tosee first? The bottom line showing ‘Proudly powerd by WordPress’, or the image on the page? I guess the image on the page, besides, loading the js files is only once, the second page uses the visitors browser cache version of the js files, so, to my opinion, postponing loading js just slows down the visitors experience. I could talk another hour about ‘optimizations’ that if fact work contra productive…

Please feel free to ask anything about wppa+, or wp. I do not guarantee i know all you ask about wp, but i work almost dayly on plugins for over 6 years, so you may expect i know a bit how it works…