fourlightsweb

Try version 1.10.3 that I just pushed out – I changed the default default target from “_self” to “do not change” to reduces the number of regexes it needs to run on each item. Hopefully that should help at least a bit with performance.

Do you have a link to the blank gallery so I can look at it? Also, if you could make a test.php file with <?php phpinfo() ?>, bring it up in your browser and email me the content that may help (and remember to delete that file immediately afterward!).

WP Gallery Custom Links uses regular expressions to swap in the custom links, and regular expressions tend to be a little on the expensive side. Unfortunately, I’m not sure there’s a reliable way to keep all the same functionality without regular expressions – to my knowledge, WordPress doesn’t provide gallery hooks more specific than “large single chunk of HTML for the whole gallery” (ie no hooks for individual images). If you or any other developer you know would like to review the code for suggestions on how to improve performance, I’m definitely open to ideas, as I know large galleries can cause issues. 🙂

Off the top of my head, the plugin loops over all possible image sizes looking for those urls to replace, and it may be possible to limit that to the setting on the gallery to remove some of those iterations, which I’ve been meaning to look into for a while and haven’t gotten around to yet. I’ll see if maybe I can make that modification in the next couple of days, and hopefully that may help you a bit, but the regexes in general are still probably the biggest issue.

Titles/captions are already a part of WordPress core – you should be able to enter them when you edit the image info, and your theme should be displaying it, including any link you put around the caption text, as HTML is supported.

Regarding the other fields, this plugin is designed to modify links on images, so other fields are outside the scope of its intended functionality, sorry.

I would suggest doing some separate standalone testing with the URLs you want to link to and translation function you’re trying to use to modify them. For example:

echo qtrans_convertURL( '/some/link/to/test/' );

in a template file or something and see what it returns to make sure it’s what you’re expecting. That way you can determine if it’s a problem with the function or WP Gallery Custom Links.

Regarding the other issues, it sounds like there may be a theme/plugin conflict with softsleepysounds and SiamKreative, and as far as fields not showing up on the back end, that sounds like the plugin isn’t enabled – there shouldn’t be anything preventing that from happening. Could you double check that it is enabled, and maybe post a screenshot of the missing fields so I can see what/where you’re looking at?

Do your links have http:// in front of them when you enter them? I know if you just enter “www.somedomain.com” it may result in what you’re seeing in your gallery.