Title: Photon
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Photon

 *  Resolved [ulihake](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ulih/)
 * (@ulih)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photon-2/)
 * Photon is included in 2.7 with these two lines of code:
    require_once( JETPACK__PLUGIN_DIR.‘
   class.photon.php’ ); require_once( JETPACK__PLUGIN_DIR . ‘functions.photon.php’);
 * I my case with a negative impact on my tiled galleries. You state in the readme
   file that Photon has been removed and in 2.5 these two lines read:
    //require_once(
   JETPACK__PLUGIN_DIR . ‘class.photon.php’ ); //require_once( JETPACK__PLUGIN_DIR.‘
   functions.photon.php’ );
 * Could you dig into this? Does Slim Jetpack require the photon class and the photon
   functions or is this simply a mistake?
 * Thanks.
    ulih
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/slimjetpack/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/slimjetpack/)

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 *  Plugin Author [WingerSpeed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wingerspeed/)
 * (@wingerspeed)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photon-2/#post-4473021)
 * What’s the impact?
 *  Thread Starter [ulihake](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ulih/)
 * (@ulih)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photon-2/#post-4473024)
 * Impact is that tiled galleries show messed up in size and layout, it’s not a 
   tiled gallery anymore, it resembles what I would call a “messed up gallery”… 
   It’s reproducable: if I comment out the two lines, everything works fine, if 
   I uncomment the lines (original state) tiled gallery stops working as expected
   on all browsers and platforms.
 * Was there a reason to change this? In 2.5 photon class and functions are not 
   loaded, in 2.7 you load them again. But moreover your photon plugin directory
   is empty in 2.7 whereas in 2.5 you find two files in the photon directory in 
   modules.
 * I did not make any further analysis of the problem. I just wanted to know why
   my tiled galleries stopped working after the update from 2.5 to 2.7 and that’s
   what I’ve found.
 *  Thread Starter [ulihake](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ulih/)
 * (@ulih)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photon-2/#post-4473026)
 * But: I have to admit that I do not know what the benefits of photon are, – if
   it works -, maybe it’s worth to have photon activated and to fix the problems
   which could be related to some special conditions on my server and maybe there’s
   no need for the photon files in the modules directory. If you indicate that the
   problem has to be on my side, I will try to find additional problems in my instance
   but before losing time I’m in need of a short reply from your side that your 
   implementation is correct and operational.
    Thanks. ulih
 *  Plugin Author [WingerSpeed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wingerspeed/)
 * (@wingerspeed)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photon-2/#post-4473065)
 * Actually, photon can be used as free CDN without wp.com account.
    In one of the
   earlier versions, this feature was on. But now, I decided to turn it off.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photon-2/#post-4473065)
 * Status: resolved