Photonic, Suffusion and Other Premium-for-Free Projects
A Happy New Year to Photonic users! I have just released version 2.63 of Photonic with the following changes: CLS Reduction You might be wondering what CLS is. CLS stands for “Cumulative Layout Shift”. This is a fancy term introduced by Google’s PageSpeed team, which refers to the shifting of content when objects are rendered […]
As the Christmas time happens to be that time of the year when my day job takes a backseat, I am often able to devote time to my hobbies (coding being one of them) during the holidays. This year I was able to finally release the ES6 version of the plugin (though technically that came […]
I released version 2.61 of Photonic earlier today. This is a minor release with the following updates: The “Show Gallery” feature was not working for Justified Grids and Mosaic layouts for BaguetteBox, BigPicture, GLightbox, LightGallery, PhotoSwipe, Featherlight, Image Lightbox and Magnific. This wasn’t a new bug – apparently this has never worked for LightGallery, PhotoSwipe, […]
I released version 2.60 of Photonic earlier today. This is a major release that completes the modernization of the underlying framework of the plugin. Without much ado, here are the key highlights of this release: Switch to Modern JavaScript Undoubtedly one of the biggest undertakings in Photonic’s history, this update delivers a rewrite of the […]
I released version 2.46 of Photonic a couple of hours back. Contrary to what I was planning for the release, this ended up being a much smaller patch to address a few things: Instagram oEmbed Deprecation I have often railed at Facebook for making things needlessly complicated when it comes to Instagram. In this latest […]
Ever since I started work on WordPress in 2009, I have been a big proponent of jQuery. Up until recently almost all my projects used jQuery, with Kon-Tiki eventually breaking the trend by discarding JavaScript altogether. The jQuery library came into prominence with a host of contemporaries – MooTools, Scriptaculous etc. It propagated the concept […]
I missed providing the change log for the last couple of Photonic releases, but both were fairly minor and dealt mostly with stabilization. Anyway, for the sake of completeness, here goes: 2.44 I removed the capability to show “more buttons” on archive views. This was a feature that was rarely used, if ever, but took […]
I have released version 2.43 of Photonic. This is a stability patch addressing the following issues after last week’s big 2.40 upgrade: Trying to create a new post on PHP 5.6.x was causing a fatal error. This should be fine now. There was a corner case conflict between the use of the standard WP hook, […]
I released a patch for Photonic via version 2.42. This has primarily the following bug fixes: On the gallery wizard, if you clicked “Load More” for a SmugMug gallery, that was not working. The Beaver Builder integration was partially broken. Galleries for Google Photos were not showing up on the dedicated gallery page. Just calling […]
Version 2.40 of Photonic is now out. This has been the biggest rewrite of Photonic since its beginning, though the changes are mostly under the hood here unlike version 2.00 that focused on adding the Gallery Wizard. So, let’s get the details out of the way Fully OO In coding parlance OO stands for Object […]