qwertysimo

Hi, do not worry about your tone, that is fine! I see your point perfectly.

To be honest, I have played a bit with the code couple of days agot and got it to generate URLs using a custom parameters like “my_gallery_id=” instead of “gallery=”. Unfortunately I got lost in decoding permalinked URLs back combined with rewrite engine. I will give it another try when I have more time.

Thanks for your comments.

I am suprised I do not see any replies. Maybe I did not write it clear enough, sorry for my English. Another try:

Question from plug-in FAQ: Can I password protect galleries?
My answer: No way! Do not waste your time trying that.

I appologize to plug-in author if I am wrong but first, please, try these steps to see my point. I made a fresh clean public installation of WP 3.5.1 with only one installed/activated plug-in, NGG 1.9.12. There is one public post with album showing “public image”. There is also a password protected page with album showing “private image”. Please, follow these steps and answer my question at the end of this post.

1. Open http://ngg.qwerty.sk site.
2. Click on “My Public Gallery” link to show the album.
3. You should see this URL in your browser address bar:
   http://ngg.qwerty.sk/?p=1&album=1&gallery=1&pageid=1
4. Go to address bar and change gallery=1 to gallery=2 and press Enter.
5. Please notice that thumbnail “public image” has changed to “private”, or, in fact you see a gallery from my password protected page I never wanted to share with you. (Password to access the protected page is “password”, check the album.)

My question is: What to do to prevent this behaviour?

As I wrote in my first post, it seems that content protection has no priority in development. What to say…

There might be a 2-step workaround how to protect your content in NGG.

• The first step is easy – to activate permalinks in NGG settings. When you turn on option “Activate permalinks”, in step 3 above you would see this URL:
  http://ngg.qwerty.sk/?p=1&album=my-public-album&gallery=my-public-gallery&pageid=1
  You think you are done, because nobody can guess your gallery name. That is true. But, if you edit your address bar and enter this URL:
  http://ngg.qwerty.sk/?p=1&album=my-public-album&gallery=2&pageid=1
  you will see that private image again. This is because permalinks are translated to URL parameters that use numerical IDs instead of names you give to galleries.
• The second step would be to change URL parameter names. I mean, if you modify NGG plug-in to use URLs like
  http://.../?my_album_ABC=aID&my_gallery_DEF=gID,
  nobody can guess what an URL should look like. I can imagine to have URL parameter configurable on NGG plug-in options page. I am not that good in PHP to modify the source. Can someone do it?

Am I completly wrong with my understanding of this problem. Did not I find some existing configuration options? Do you protect your content in different way? Can you share?

I have another workaround: I edited file edit-thumbnail.php:

Line
hT = coords.h;
replaced with
hT = Math.round( coords.w / 1.5 + 0.5 );

(1.5 = my aspect ration (180/120)).

I am getting exactly 180×120 thumbnails now.

Hi, I found solution for the latest issue above. It was neccessary to modify Subscribe2 plugin, not the Polylang.

In subscribe2.php find this code:

if ( is_admin() ) {
	require_once( S2PATH . 'classes/class-s2-admin.php' );
	global $mysubscribe2;
	$mysubscribe2 = new s2_admin;
	$mysubscribe2->s2init();
} else {
	require_once( S2PATH . 'classes/class-s2-frontend.php' );
	global $mysubscribe2;
	$mysubscribe2 = new s2_frontend;
	$mysubscribe2->s2init();
}

and add two lines at the end of else section:

remove_action('init', array(&$mysubscribe2, 'load_strings'));
add_action('wp', array(&$mysubscribe2, 'load_strings')); // after Polylang

From this moment all Subscribe2 messages show up translated. Solution found in this post. Thanks Chouby.

I suspect that none of strings read in function load_strings() in class-s2-core.php picks up translation.

(That is why I reported English string for {ACTION} variable. Now I see this string is declared in this function as well.

When I was testing reported issues a day ago, I did not install Polylang plugin – hence it seemed everything was OK.)

Your fix works. Good job and good luck with future releases.

OK. Thanks. Meanwhile, I put “print_r( $widget_options )” into function S2_Counter_widget() (after $widget_options assignment) in counterwidget.php and the output was:

Array ( [classname] => s2_counter [description] => Subscriber Counter widget for Subscribe2 )

For some reason, __(‘Subscriber Counter widget for Subscribe2’, ‘subscribe2’) does not pick up translation.

I will install latest dev code tonight to test as well.

Thanks for explanation. I just wonder, if couple of other plugins work as expected in my theme (Responsive) in my WP installation, why your plugin does not work in the same theme and WP installation… I hope you see my point.

OK, let me know your findings please.