Jan Zeman
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Hi @peterpolow ,
I rewrote a lot. Introduced some breaking changes but will risk to do this step. I made ‘gallery’ to be the default plugin experience. Right now I got all 4 videos from your sample album to work. Time for family skiing tomorrow and yes, you hear from me next week 🙂
BR, JanHi @peterpolow ,
Only shortly as it is relatively late.
It’s amazing that you created the test environment(s). That will simplify our communication. This discussion is very valuable to me – already now I identified 4-5 changes I must do to make the plugin more intuitive.
For me all works on your environment as expected. The problem might be that what I selected as default values is based on my assumptions and preferences which for sure can be very off from the standards or mainstream expectation.You already discovered that the default value of full-screen-switch is ‘double-click’. Change it to “single-click” or “button-only”. Thinking about the discoverability this was wrong choice from my side and I will probably change the default value to ‘single-click’ in the next version.
[jzsa-album link="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNKmqHo_G9Qnw5qkrKB04rVYiN5JwExBT7hVOcFFFBbG0f9M85kzedUsyQl3N6dpg?key=RDRQWEg4aTZCaGpKVGR2ekdZSFBGaE1jLWcwb1Fn" mode="grid" grid-layout="uniform" grid-columns="3" grid-columns-tablet="2" grid-columns-mobile="2" full-screen-switch="single-click"][jzsa-album link="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNKmqHo_G9Qnw5qkrKB04rVYiN5JwExBT7hVOcFFFBbG0f9M85kzedUsyQl3N6dpg?key=RDRQWEg4aTZCaGpKVGR2ekdZSFBGaE1jLWcwb1Fn" mode="grid" grid-layout="uniform" grid-columns="3" grid-columns-tablet="2" grid-columns-mobile="2" full-screen-switch="button-only"]
In general, have you discovered the Settings / Onboarding page? That one will reveal a lot! There is also a shortcode playground section, many samples and list of cca 30 shortcode parameters which will allow you to fine-tune your experience – your preferences.
Working with this Settings / Onbording page is a key factor to the final success. You find it under your-domain/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=janzeman-shared-albums-for-google-photos. Alternatively you click ‘Settings’ on the plugin entry on the Installed plugins page of your WP. I should probably rename it from Settings to Settings & Onboarding or similar.
The combination of 30 parameters is very rich – I surely haven’t tested all possible combinations.Entire screen? Fix it via:
full-screen-image-fit="contain"
Videos are not currently supported as I wrote you last time. I even did not know it shows the “Play icon”. I will look on videos but first after we fix all the photo related questions for your case, OK?
Best, JanHi @peterpolow ,
Nice to read this!
Well, I am a developer, mainly focused on mobile apps, and of course I use AI as well. I am just not very experienced with WordPress. Everything I do there is really more of a hobby, mainly to support and maintain a community website.
No stress at all. I already have plans for the weekend anyway, but I promise I will respond to all your findings.
In fact, already this morning I was thinking that “gallery” would be a better name for the mode than “grid,” so I may push this small change later tonight in version 1.0.8.
I will do my best to make the plugin useful for your site 🙂
Talk to you soon,
JanForum: Reviews
In reply to: [Shared Albums for Google Photos (by JanZeman)] Nice, but …Hi @gmrobbins,
I added a new mode=”grid” option which gives the grid of images with pagination as you originally expected.
There is also mode=”carousel-to-single” now which opens only one of the images in full-screen.Feel free to check those in the new 1.0.7 version.
Kind regards, JanHi @peterpolow ,
Please give it a try and update to plugin version 1.0.7.
On the Settings page, please look for “Grid Mode.” I hope this is at least close to what you were asking for.
As I mentioned earlier, I am not a professional WordPress developer, just a hobbyist, so it is possible that I misunderstood part of your last explanation and followed my own interpretation a bit too much instead of studying the classic WordPress gallery behavior more deeply. Please check whether your goal is achievable with the current version.
In principle, adding this shortcode to your post will render the whole album. I used your cycling album link below and it works on my test page:
[jzsa-album link="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNKmqHo_G9Qnw5qkrKB04rVYiN5JwExBT7hVOcFFFBbG0f9M85kzedUsyQl3N6dpg?key=RDRQWEg4aTZCaGpKVGR2ekdZSFBGaE1jLWcwb1Fn" mode="grid" grid-layout="uniform" grid-columns="4" grid-columns-tablet="3" grid-columns-mobile="2"]There are also several options available to adjust both the grid behavior and the fullscreen view. You should still be able to add any text above or below the gallery grid.
Please let me know what works and what does not work for your site, and I can continue improving it from there. Next time I should probably read your explanation a few more times before implementing anything. I added the ‘Justified’ layout, Masonry I can try next time.
Ideally please create a new post on your site, it can be a copy of an existing one and try to build that post by using the jzsa-album shortcode. Then you can share with me the result and say very concretely what worked well and what is still missing.It was a bit hectic, but I also quickly tested one technical spike, and it seems that extracting video links may also be possible. So in theory, your newer request could be supported as well. But let us take it step by step first and make sure the basics work properly.
Best regards, Jan
Hi @peterpolow ,
I think I understand. Give me some days. Latest during the weekend I will have something ready.
Kind regards
JanHi @peterpolow ,
Anything like this?
https://pasteboard.co/gIak7mE1RpT9.jpg
(I have tried to paste the image directly here it it keeps failing to upload it.)
Kind regards
Jan- This reply was modified 2 months ago by Jan Zeman.
Dear @peterpolow ,
Thank you very much for your kind words.
I must admit that our story is actually very similar. I created this plugin because I ended up in exactly the same situation as you. I had also been using Photonic, and when it stopped working last year, I needed an alternative for the website I manage. That was the reason I started developing this plugin in the first place. Once I had it working for my own needs, I decided to publish it in the hope that it might help others as well.
So I am really glad you wrote here. Feedback like yours is very valuable, and I will very seriously consider adding this feature to support your case.
Do I understand correctly that you are looking for a gallery behavior similar to the one shown on this page?
I just want to make sure I understand your expectations correctly before I start developing something that misses the target. If possible, could you please send me one or two working photo gallery websites that show the kind of behavior you would ideally like to have? That would help me a lot.
Have a nice evening.
Best regards,
JanForum: Reviews
In reply to: [Shared Albums for Google Photos (by JanZeman)] Nice, but …Hi @gmrobbins,
thank you very much for trying the plugin and for taking the time to leave such detailed feedback.
Yours is actually the very first review I’ve received for this plugin (or any plugin) – I’m not a professional WordPress developer, just building this as a small hobby project for a community site I help run. Your comments were super helpful, so I spent a full day going through them one by one.
Based on your notes I have:
- Completely reworked the Settings page to make the onboarding clearer and more example‑driven.
- Introduced “What this plugin does (and what it does not)” section
- Added a new mode called
carousel-to-single. In this mode the carousel behaves as you suggested: you see multiple photos in a row, and clicking one opens that specific photo in a single fullscreen image viewer.
You’re absolutely right that many people expect a “gallery mode” to mean a grid of thumbnails with pagination. This plugin deliberately focuses on rendering one album per shortcode (single viewer or carousel variants) and leaves the overall page layout to the theme or block editor. The very top of the Settings page now explains this explicitly.
For grids + pagination across many albums, I’m using exactly that pattern on our community site: https://vkodani.cz/foto/
That page is built with the core Query Loop / grid layout, and each grid item simply contains one
[jzsa-album]shortcode. I now mention this approach on the Settings page as the recommended way to build grids and archives.A true built‑in “grid mode” might make it on the planned features list, but for now the intended setup is: Use your theme / editor for the grid and layout, and let the shortcode handle the album viewer itself.
I hope the new version (1.0.3) feels better aligned with what you had in mind.
Have a great day,
JanForum: Plugins
In reply to: [Timely All-in-One Events Calendar] Thousands of errors for PHP 8.xHi @vinjoy707 ,
Thank you very much for the detailed expectation. In my case it is just a hobby project so I am not involved that deeply. I wish Timely added at least 10% of your heart into the support of long-time users.
Best regards
JanForum: Plugins
In reply to: [Timely All-in-One Events Calendar] Thousands of errors for PHP 8.xAm I mistaken, or are we witnessing absolutely terrible support from the creators of this plugin? The same issue has been reported repeatedly over the past 12+ months! I recall it causing my server to crash, affecting not just one site, but all sites hosted there. My temporary solution was to freeze the version updates at v3.0.0. However, I’m shocked that, after just another 9 months, there has been no sign of improvement. Many of the support tickets receive pre-edited formal responses, and a significant number are marked as ‘resolved.’ It’s unbelievable…
PS: I just noticed that even this ticket is marked as ‘resolved’. How can it be @yenmer ???
- This reply was modified 2 years ago by Jan Zeman.
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In reply to: [TablePress - Tables in WordPress made easy] v1.8 unavailableOh, I found that line naturally but being it part of the comment block I thought that one will surely not be used. How wrong 🙂
I still do not understand the whole picture. If the latest available version is 1.8 and this version has been installed by many sites, I do not understand why this last version is not available. However no need to explain, I am fine with the current solution.
Thank you again, Jan
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In reply to: [TablePress - Tables in WordPress made easy] v1.8 unavailableThank you for the explanation, Tobias!
It is used on a low-traffic / low-budget website (and you are right, I am trying to update plugins after few years), I cannot go for a paid version unfortunately.
So I tried to change the version as you suggested. The only instance of ‘1.7’ I found on line 52 of tablepress-responsive-tables.php file. So I changed it to:
protected static $version = '1.8';That however did not have any effect. WordPress still claims there is 1.8 available.
I am not web/PHP programmer but went further in this file and found this function:
public static function init_update_checker() { require_once dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/libraries/plugin-update-checker.php'; self::$plugin_update_checker = PucFactory::buildUpdateChecker( 'https://tablepress.org/downloads/extensions/update-check/' . self::$slug . '.json', __FILE__, self::$slug ); }I tried to remove any implementation from it to avoid the http call:
public static function init_update_checker() { }And this worked, the update notice is hidden by now. So I will probably stick to this solution.
If I put into browser this URL: https://tablepress.org/downloads/extensions/update-check/tablepress-responsive-tables.json, it shows this:
{ name: "TablePress Extension: Responsive Tables", version: "1.8", homepage: "https://tablepress.org/extensions/responsive-tables/", ... ... }I was wondering whether it would not make sense to modify this server file to version 1.7 so that nobody else will be exposed to this problem?
All the best, Jan
Yes, sorry, I apparently created a duplicated question. Just found this while you were typing: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-photos-not-loading/
So it seems all I have to do is to follow this link: https://docs.wp-rocket.me/article/54-exclude-pages-from-the-cache.
Next time I will search first before wasting your time.
Thank you for your help!Here is the screenshot: https://pasteboard.co/Jam1kDn.jpg
