theAlpinePress

Does the new version fix the problem you were having?

Sorry about that. I have submitted another update. Please let me know if the problem continues.

Could you please delete and reinstall the plugin again? I have not been able to recreate the problem on my website, so it is difficult to find a fix. If the new version does not help, could you try changing the settings so that the images do not link to anything? Just a guess…

Would you mind rating the plugin?

Sorry. The website has a typo. The limit is 100 photos.

I’m really sorry to hear that the plugin has stopped working. I feel like it is more frustrating for a code to suddenly stop than to never work at all. All the errors you noted are PHP warnings, which means they should not cause the code to fail. Nonetheless, I rewrote the sections that were causing the problems. Could you update the plugin and see if the problem is fixed?
It sounds to me like something is causing WordPress’s option functions ( get_option() and update_option() ) to not work or to delete the plugin’s record. One of the best ways to find a problem is to deactivate all plugins and change to the default WordPress theme (Twenty Fourteen). Then reactivate the plugins one at a time. Hope this helps.
Best,
Eric

Sorry to hear it is not working. I checked your site and it looks like jQuery never detects when the page is done loading and thus the plugin never loads. You can try downloading and installing the old version of the plugin from http://wordpress.org/plugins/alpine-photo-tile-for-instagram/developers/ but it will eventually stop working also. The new version of jQuery has removed the .load() function.

Sorry for not being part of the discussion. I simply don’t have time for WordPress development anymore. I just checked compatibility with WP 3.8 and updated the plugin.

As cazman mentioned, there were a couple deprecated jQuery features that I have removed from the plugin, though I doubt that was the cause of your trouble.

Now, to give a little explanation of how the plugin works: the Vertical and Cascade styles are put together by the server and then sent to the web browser. This makes them the most reliable options.

The rest of the styles are put together by javascript code running in the web browser. The easiest way to load images and manipulate them using javascript is to first load them somewhere on the page. The AlpinePhotoTiles_image_list_class <div> is where the plugin puts all the images and then waits for the browser to announce when it is done. I don’t want the user to see the images loading, which is why this <div> is hidden. Once the images are loaded, the javascript portion of the plugin puts together the display (Windows, Gallery, etc).

There are 2 reasons (that I know of) for why the plugin stops before putting together the display.

First, the javascript files are supposed to be loaded in the bottom of the web page by the WordPress theme, but some themes don’t do this correctly. The “Load Scripts and Styles in Header” option corrects this by loading the files at the top of a web page.

Second, if another javascript plugin crashes or conflicts with the PhotoTile plugin, nothing will be displayed. If that is the case, there is nothing I can do (I don’t claim to be a javascript expert, but I have put a lot of time into testing the plugin).

The easiest way to figure out if the problem is with the PhotoTile plugin, the theme, or another plugin is to use one of the default WordPress plugin (which are well written) and then enable one plugin at a time.

I hope that helps. There is definitely a learning cure to problem solving these things. One last thing I would mention is that you can listen to your browser and see if it announces any errors. Using Chrome or Firefox, go to your website, right-click anywhere on the page, and select “Inspect Element”. A panel should appear at the bottom of the page. Select the “Console” tab and then reload the page.

Best,
Eric