Benjamin

What exactly does the code you have right now look like?

The snippet you last pasted will only set the description to the date if the description is empty; to make it always apply you’ll need to remove the if() and its braces ({}) like so:

add_action('ngg_added_new_image', function($image) {
    $mapper = C_Image_Mapper::get_instance();
    $date = new \DateTime($image->imagedate);
    $image->description = $date->format('F j, Y');
    $mapper->save($image);
});

Hi @robertboyl, I didn’t notice the notification email on this thread, my apologies!

To use a nicer format change the F j, Y to d/m/y — how DateTime->format() works is documented here on php.net — just scroll down to the the format table.

What does the code you are using look like now? Images’ description is stored in the description attribute, and the title is in alttext — the following will force the title and description for all new images:

add_action('ngg_added_new_image', function($image) {
    $mapper = C_Image_Mapper::get_instance();
    $image->description = 'DESCRIPTION';
    $image->alttext = 'TITLE';
    $mapper->save($image);
});

Hi @sellrion !

NextGEN 2.0 has been built on a framework that’s a little difficult to work with, the relevant parts of $displayed_gallery can be found in it’s _stdObject attribute. I’ll be working soon on making it much simpler to work with and easy to inspect, but to answer your questions:

1: NextGEN can display more than one gallery at a time with mixed sorting so in the code side we have “displayed galleries”; you can get that list by accessing $displayed_gallery->container_ids which is an array.

2, 3, 4, 5: Because of #1 NextGEN’s templates don’t have gallery information beyond their ID. You can retrieve them using NextGEN’s internal API:

$mapper  = C_Gallery_Mapper::get_instance();
$gallery = $mapper->find($gallery_id);
$title = $gallery->title;
$desc  = $gallery->galdesc;
$slug  = $gallery->slug;

Unfortunately we don’t store gallery creation or modification times, there’s no reliable way to get that information. You could maybe check the creation timestamp of the gallery folder on the filesystem but that has complications. I’m sorry I can’t help much there.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 12 months ago by Benjamin.

Hi @koolwebs That sounds like the updater may have had an error when downloading the new zip file; deleting nextgen and re-installing it should correct the problem.

Hi @roelani

Are there any similarities amongst the galleries that can or can’t be sorted; such as the number of the images they contain?

Hi @ondrejselner

I’m not sure what to say. I’m not able to reproduce that problem on your site with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge on Windows 10 and Linux. Safari on my Mac mini is also behaving correctly. Does this happen with our other lightbox options?

Hi @ilpanzio

I’ve noticed that there’s been some problems lately with a third party library we updated that is causing problems for people using Safari 13 and older. Upgrading to Safari 13.1 (from March 2020) or Safari 14 should fix the problem.

Hi @mrmic

I haven’t tested “Page Builder by SiteOrigin” yet but adding either of these two lines to your wp-config.php may solve the issue.

define('NGG_DISABLE_RESOURCE_MANAGER', TRUE);
define('NGG_DISABLE_FILTER_THE_CONTENT', TRUE);

If that doesn’t fix your issue let me know and I will try to ensure some time is spent on it during our next release cycle.