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About Gallery Manager
Gallery Manager is a powerful WordPress plugin that allows you to easily organize and manage image galleries on your website. It also includes a beautiful and responsive lightbox effect for all linked images, making your website more visually appealing. The plugin offers a range of features, including centralized gallery management, taxonomies for classifying galleries, support for comments and featured images, and compatibility with WordPress themes and plugins.Changelog
1.6.58
- PHP 8.2 patches
- Renamed class folder to includes
- Formatted code to PSR-12
- Added attribute types to function definitions
- Renamed AJAX_Requests class to AJAXRequests
- Renamed Content_Filter class to ContentFilter
- Renamed Post_Type class to PostType
- Renamed Shortcode_Filter class to ShortcodeFilter
- Renamed Taxonomy_Fallbacks to TaxonomyFallbacks
- Renamed WebP_Support class to WebPSupport
- Renamed WP_Query_Extensions class to WPQueryExtensions
- Updated minimal PHP version to 7.4
- Specified translation filter in WPML integration
- Fixed Random Images Widget
1.6.57
- Some PHP 8.0 patches
- Changed green colored elements to dashboard palette color
1.6.56
- Small Dashboard CSS tweaks for WP 5.6+
- Fixed options page form action endpoint (removed options_saved parameter)
1.6.55
- Added one style sheet for each default theme
1.6.54
- Updated lightbox library to 2.36
1.6.53
- Fixed return type for taxonomy fallback function of get_the_categories()
1.6.52
- Fixed var typo in thumbnails class which throws PHP notices
1.6.51
- Added .webp support
- Improved frontend JavaScript
1.6.50
- Fixed image size dropdown options for sizes without width/height
1.6.49
- Changed preview columns count option field
- Fixed number of columns in previews
1.6.48
- Fixed empty gallery bug
- Switched translation method names to original translation names
1.6.47
- Changed pro banner design, text and size
- Added options page link to post type sub menu
1.6.46
- Updated font size in Pro banner
- Increased number of ad-free items
- Updated tested-up-to version
1.6.45
- Added warning on options page when libxml is missing
1.6.44
- Code cleanup in WPML class
- Fixed Pro Banner font size in block editor
1.6.43
- Made Pro banner compatible with Block Editor in WP5
1.6.42
- Updated lightbox JavaScript to 2.33
- Make Gutenberg disabled by default
1.6.41
- Changed min required PHP version to 5.5.2
- Fixed TinyMCE plugin: removed edit gallery button in the editor
1.6.40
- Removed upgrade banner for fresh installations
- Updated upsell text
1.6.39
- Removed gallery count limit
- Added upgrade banners to plugin pages
- Changed nav menu label for gallery taxonomies in the menu editor
1.6.38
- Fixed gallery_image_size select box width in edit gallery screen
- Changed DOMNodeList access via item() method for PHP version older than 5.6.3
- Added Fallback for older LibXML versions than 2.7.8
- Fixed metabox incompatibility with Gutenberg editor
1.6.37
- Replaced hyphens by under spaces in filter and hook names
- Added new filter for getGallery AJAX call
- Added $item property to the JavaScript gallery item which points to the original image link
- Added display:block to lightbox controls font icons to make them the same height in different browsers
1.6.36
- Changed CSS and JS handle names for the options page
1.6.35
- Small JS code cleanups
- language file string cleanups
1.6.34
- Added: Nonce fields for the options page
1.6.33
- Updated lightbox JavaScript to 2.32
- Improved Options performance
1.6.32
- Replaced jQuery toggle call on the options page with slideUp and slideDown
1.6.31
- Patched LEFT JOIN statement for attachment queries
- Fixed image editor in gallery editor
- Fixed wp.media styles in gallery editor
1.6.30
- restricted images to user owner
- restricted images to the ones which are not already in a gallery
- prevent the user from adding images multiple times
1.6.29
- Updated secure urls
1.6.28
- Updated lightbox library to 2.29
- Renamed Gallery_Post_Type class to Post_Type
- Renamed Gallery_Taxonomies class to Taxonomies
1.6.27
- Fixed typo in menu label
1.6.26
- changed gallery menu caption
- added gallery index to nav menu section
1.6.25
- Updated lightbox library to 2.27
1.6.24
- Updated lightbox library to 2.25.2
- Added jQuery lightbox events to lightbox container
- Increased z-index for title and description wrapper in the lightbox
- Fixed color for title and description wrapper in the lightbox
- Added uninstall hook
1.6.23
- Changed warning for PHP <5.5
1.6.22
- Added PHP version warning for PHP <5.5.38
- Implemented late static binding for all classes
- Fixed get_the_categories filter when calling it outside the loop
- Removed the “Archive:” prefix from post_type_archive_title function
1.6.21
- Added support for late static binding
1.6.20
- Fixed handling of hash links
1.6.19
- Updated lightbox library to 2.25.0
1.6.18
- Fixed base url issue when using domain mapping
1.6.17
- Updated lightbox library to 2.22.0
1.6.16
- Removed sortable and slidable boxes in options page
- Removed support for WP 4.3 and older
- Small code cleanups
- Updated lightbox library to 2.21.3
1.6.15
- Changed: filter priority for registering taxonomies (9)
- Changed: filter priority for registering post type (10)
1.6.14
- Fixed shortcode field with in gallery table in the dashboard
- Small code cleanups
1.6.13
- replaced core method “containsShortcode” by “hasShortcode” WP function
1.6.12
- Internationalized remove-image-warning in edit-gallery backend
1.6.11
- Updated lightbox library to 2.21.2
1.6.10
- Patched font icon implementation
1.6.9
- Updated lightbox library to 2.20
- Added font icon files for older browsers
- Refactored lightbox style sheet
1.6.8
- Changed: filter priority for registering post type
- Changed: filter priority for registering taxonomies
- Small code cleanups
1.6.7
- Changed gallery relation attribute to “data-gallery”
- Added: Image captions are shown in the lightbox now
1.6.6
- Fixed: Image titles for in-post-created galleries
- Added: Image alt-attribute as image title available
1.6.5
- Replaced index.php files by index.html files
- Improved the initial module loader
- Small code cleanups
1.6.4
- Fixed: limit in cloud widget
- Fixed: Widgets do not print a title wrapper when the title is empty
1.6.3
- Removed external auto update feature
- Patched: Widget use doing_action function now
- Added: Pointer cursor to images in the meta box
- Patched: defined static textdomain
1.6.2
- Patched: small style issues in the lightbox
- Fixed: problem with managing images without thumbnail version in the dashboard
- Fixed: frontend JavaScript will only be loaded if the lightbox is enabled
- Fixed: link hash meta box will only be shown if the lightbox is enabled
- Fixed: hash links will only be considered if the gallery id is numeric
- Added: Shortcode can be find on the post type dashboard page
1.6.1
- Fixed: Galleries can handle more than 40 images now
1.6
- The plugin was completely rewritten