Photonic Version 1.43

Apologies for the long wait after my last post. Work has been brutal, and after 16-hour workdays I have had scarcely any time for myself or my family, let alone Photonic or Suffusion.

This version of Photonic was supposed to have a lot more stuff than it does, mainly pagination, but due to the sudden explosion of my workload, this is all I can deliver this time:

1. I added support for the Thickbox library. Thickbox doesn’t play well with JQuery Tooltip, so if you plan on using Thickbox, bear in mind that your titles might not appear in the lightbox if you are using tooltips. Unfortunately since Thickbox is distributed with WP, I didn’t have any leeway in terms of customizing it.
2. There was some incompatibility between Photonic and themes from Themify. Specifically it was not possible to use Photonic’s lightbox selection, and clicking on album thumbnails didn’t show the popup panel. I have added some workarounds in Photonic to address this (though ideally this should have been handled by Themify)
3. I have added the capability to exclude password-protected galleries from displaying in SmugMug.
4. In yet another innovative feature, I added support for an alternative shortcode. Photonic is set up to use the [gallery] shortcode by default. However your theme might be overriding this shortcode too, or maybe you have another plugin that has its plans for this shortcode. So now you have the option to specify what name you want to use for the shortcode, and that shortcode is yours. Bear in mind, that if you use this feature, using the [gallery] shortcode for Photonic will no longer work. More importantly, if you stop using Photonic, your new shortcode will show up all over the place – something that doesn’t happen if you stick with the [gallery] shortcode.

Hope you like this release. Photonic doesn’t get anywhere close to the amount of love that Suffusion does despite being a unique product, so it would be great if you left your reviews on the official WP site.