Gallery Magic Broken?

[cybermike]

There seems to be a new update and when I click the magic wand it wont post the gallery short cut into the post anymore.. Tried to log into the support forum but it wont let me in.

[just a punk]

Hello,

The WordPress guys have changed their visual text editor in version 4.8. So the old code doesn't work now. While I'm looking for a solution, you should enter the gallery shortcodes manually. E.g.:

[gallery_magic url="http://dailypicksandflicks.cohttp://dailypicksandflicks.com/2011/01/11/wtf-kitty-picture-gallery-of-the-week/" featured_image="first" link="file"]

The following parameters are available for the gallery_magic shortcode:

• url: the source gallery URL;
• featured_image: "first", "last", "random" or leave it empty if you don't want to generate the featured image at all;
• max_images: max number of images in the gallery (default: all images);
• cols: number of columns in the gallery (default: 4);
• size: specify the image size to use for the thumbnail display. Valid values include "thumbnail", "medium", "large", "full" and any other additional image size that was registered with add_image_size(). The default value is "thumbnail". The size of the images for "thumbnail", "medium" and "large" can be configured in WordPress admin panel under Settings > Media.
• link: can be "file" (link directly to image file), "none" (no link) or leave it empty if you want to link it to the attachment's permalink.

BTW, this issue doesn't affect bulk gallery import function. Only the "magic wand" button in the text editor doesn't work in WordPress 4.8. As it shown above, it can be easily replaced by shortcodes.

As about the support forum, it's available to the customers only. Please contact me by email regarding your account.

[fris]

cyber, does the plugin ever reindex the gallery, say if they gallery changed on the external site say by adding a few more images?

[fris]

bump for cyberseo ;)

[just a punk]

Originally Posted by fris

cyber, does the plugin ever reindex the gallery, say if they gallery changed on the external site say by adding a few more images?

No, it doesn't. Once added, the gallery doesn't change. If the plugin will be checking every gallery on a distant host and compare every image there with the existing ones it will take forever to parse the feed. Even if it will simple recount the images in every gallery and check their names. Especially if the connection speed between the hosts is not ideal...