SLB 1.5.6 Beta

Notice: Awesome job brave beta testers!  This beta phase is now over.  If you haven’t already, update to the latest version of Simple Lightbox.

The time has arrived for a new beta version of Simple Lightbox to be unleashed upon our awesome group of brave testers.  Your testing helps to make SLB better with each update.

The beta is quite stable, but one person (me) can only do so much testing.  Now it’s time to let it loose for all of you to install and test.

Version  1.5.6 is all about tightening things up in SLB.  Some nice new features will make an appearance in this version, but the focus will mainly be on improving compatibility and making sure SLB runs clean and fast.

Here are some examples of things that need testing and feedback:

  • W3 Total Cache — SLB should now be compatible with the output buffering that W3TC does
  • Captions — Captions for gallery items and individually inserted images have been tweaked to be clearer for users.
  • Descriptions — Text added to the description field when inserting an image should be displayed in either of the default templates
  • NextGEN — Titles and descriptions of NextGEN gallery items should be displayed in the lightbox
  • Templates — CSS rebuilt, anything amiss?

Release Notes:

Beta 6

  • Optimize: Improved support for small images in default template
  • Add: Initial support for NextGEN galleries

Beta 5

  • Add: HTML support in image descriptions
  • Optimize: Support for non-English text in UI settings
  • Fix: User-defined UI text not used (Ivan gets Even (cooler))

Beta 4

  • Fix: Options reset after update (KRazy Donna)
  • Optimize: Improved IE compatibility
  • Optimize: Improved data handling

Beta 3

  • Update: Important: System Requirements aligned with WP 3.2.1
  • Add: Display image description in lightbox
  • Add: Option to enable/disable image description in settings
  • Optimize: Additional CSS cleanup
  • Optimize: Template loading performance

Beta 2

  • Add: Support for W3 Total Cache plugin
  • Optimize: Template CSS Cleanup
  • Optimize: Caption support for galleries

Beta 1

  • Update: Options code cleanup (Juga Sweep)

What you get

For being a brave lad and installing the beta version on your site, you get the latest version with all the new features before anyone else. You also get a chance to provide feedback before the final version is released. Awesome, I know.

Oh yeah, and if you find a bug, the fix is named after you. Fame and fortune will surely soon follow.

What I need (How to report an issue)

Pretty simple. I need you to install the plugin and make sure everything is working.

If you have an bug/issue to report, please provide the following:

  • URL of page exhibiting bug (I can’t do much if I can’t test it myself)
  • WordPress version (3.2.1 etc.) — Note: SLB only supports the latest version of WordPress
  • Other plugins installed
  • Browser(s) with issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc.)

Note: All previous stable versions of Simple Lightbox are available via WordPress’ official plugin page if you need to downgrade to a previous version for any reason.

Discuss

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Ivan

September 14, 2011 – 8:22 am

There is problem with custom interface strings, first of all they look like this http://gyazo.com/ffadf1e2ca5f4c2adb3335ae3f28505e.png when attempting to translate interface into Russian. They used to work, though, but reset with any settings change. Then, as of Beta 4, those strings are ignored and interface of lightbox is always in english.

Nisav

September 16, 2011 – 1:20 am

The pluging is not working when WP Minify is in use.

example page: http://www.stashmycomics.com/blog/?p=3297
wordpress version 3.2.1
latest version of your plugin
WP Minity version 1.1.7

Sol

September 16, 2011 – 4:57 pm

@Micah: No problem :)

@Stephanie: Descriptions should work on all images (including galleries) in posts regardless of whether they link to the image directly or to the attachment page. If this is not working for you, can you please provide a link and I’ll take a look.

@Ivan: You found a bug! I was a bit too overzealous while optimizing some code in beta 4 and ended up deleting the code that loaded the user-defined UI text. Sorry about that! For your quick report, the fix will henceforth be know as the Ivan gets Even (cooler) fix.

Oh, and I’ve improved the support for unicode UI text, so translating the UI into other languages. Please check it out and let me know if you come upon any other unseemly behavior.

@Nisav: SLB has been tested with WP Minify and no issues were encountered. You may want to temporarily disable your other plugins to see if they might be causing a conflict. It doesn’t look like WP Minify is enabled at the link you provided. Let me know when you have a page up that exhibits the issue you’re experiencing and I’ll take a look.

juuso

September 19, 2011 – 12:41 pm

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-lightbox-image-resize

I’m having the same problem with WP 3.2.1 using Firefox and Safari (no other browsers on hand right now). Can’t post a link, but maybe somebody can try to some large pictures (width 2000 px) and see does it get fitted into lightbox or not.

Storm

September 19, 2011 – 3:31 pm

Hi there,

Thanks so much for a great plugin!! I have a question/request.

I’m a photographer and my current theme (http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/mygrid2)
has posts with their featured image on the front page. I am hoping to use them to display my categories (newborn, wedding, etc) however it would be nice to click on that post and have it not redirect to the post page but have it go immediately into a lightbox of the images within the post.

I hope this makes sense, if it doesn’t I can try explain further. Any advice or help making something like this work would be greatly appreciated :)

chibi`

September 20, 2011 – 3:43 am

http://www.kachiri.de/kommende-anime-season-fall-2011/

Black Overlay isn’t over the whole page.
Only the range of the browser window is overlayed.

Sol

September 20, 2011 – 9:43 am

@juuso: SLB displays images at their original resolution for maximum image quality. It is recommended that images be resized to their desired display size prior to uploading.

@Storm: You would probably have to modify the theme to change the link that is used for the featured image. SLB is only activated for links to images.

@chibi: Nice find! If the image is larger than the browser window then edges of the overlay may be visible in some circustances. I’ll fix that in the next update, and for your courage in coming forward to report this glaring oversight in SLB, we hereby name the fix to the Chibi Overlord fix.

Storm

September 21, 2011 – 12:43 am

Thanks for the feedback Sol, once more ty for a great plugin :)

nisav

September 21, 2011 – 3:49 pm

@Sol its a production blog so i had to leave wp minify disabled on that link. the only way i was able to get slb to work was by disabling WP Minify.

i just updated to b6 and updated + activated WP Minify to 1.1.8, and lightbox stpoped working. i disabled all plugins except for slb and wp minify and lightbox didnt work. i disabled wp minify, so the only plugin active is slb, and lightbox is working. i reenabled the other plugins, leaving wp minify disabled and slb is still working.

Sol

September 21, 2011 – 4:07 pm

@nisav: Thanks for the information. There are several ways that one plugin could conflict with another, so it’s difficult to determine the issue on your site without seeing it firsthand.

Depending on your settings, WP Minify can affect JavaScript being loaded because it can sometimes change the order that code is loaded on the page. One JS error on the page can keep other code from running.

Here are a few suggestions to changes you can make in the WP Minify settings that may resolve your issue while still benefiting as much as possible from WP Minify:

  1. Exclude SLB’s JavaScript files from from being processed by WP Minify by adding simple-lightbox/js to the appropriate field
  2. Disable JS minification by unchecking the “Enable JavaScript Minification” option
  3. Reset all WP Minify settings (using button on settings page)

Go down the list trying each option until you find one that works for your site.

Assaf

September 22, 2011 – 2:16 am

Thanks for the plugin! Now to business…

SLB is working fine, except one thing: The Close label sits on top of the Close image. See any of the post pages with linked images, e.g.
http://www.tzurel.co.il/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%97-%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94-%D7%A2%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99
(the settings pic in the middle of the page).

Since my blog is in Hebrew, I actually prefer not to display the Close image, just the text.

And while we’re at it: Hebrew is a right-to-left language, so the back/forward buttons are places in the opposite directions, showing the back/next arrows on the wrong side. Can you make the plugin RTL-friendly?

Relevant info:
WP 3.2.1
Plugins: Broken Link Checker, Contact From 7, DBC Backup, Tiny MCE Advanced, Tweet This, WP Security Scan.
Bug persists on Firefox and IE on Windows

OroszNyet

September 22, 2011 – 10:11 am

Hi,

I would appreciate if SLB can stretch to screen size. I mean when an image size bigger than browser resolution the box always fit in viewport. (Aspect ration always be the same.)
BTW this plugin is awesome :)

karaloko

September 26, 2011 – 8:01 pm

How to stop using the simple function wp_deregister lightbox click on posts that do not have photo galleries?

Sol

September 27, 2011 – 9:29 am

@Assaf: Thanks for the feedback, RTL compatibility has been added to the to-do list.

As for the close button image being displayed, you can manually adjust the template’s CSS to stop the image from displaying.

@OroszNyet: Thanks for the feedback!

@karaloko: I’m not sure I understand your question. SLB doesn’t use a wp_deregister function

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