Title: Development dead?
Last modified: October 30, 2017

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# Development dead?

 *  Resolved [Arno Welzel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awelzel/)
 * (@awelzel)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/development-dead/)
 * This plugin was last updated 2 years ago and has multiple issues:
    - No translation possible
    - Supports only gallery images, not single images linked to the media file
    - Content of the posts will get updated to add additional attributes to the 
      links of images
 * Since I am a plugin author as well, I did a major overhaul for myself with the
   following changes:
    - Can be translated to multiple languages (e.g. using Loco Translate)
    - No need to change any code in posts/pages
    - Display all linked images on a page in one lightbox gallery, regardless if
      the image is part of a gallery or just a single linked image
 * Examples of the new plugin in use:
 * [Multiple galleries on one page](https://arnowelzel.de/wp/geburtstagsreise-2013)
 * [Mix of single images and galleries](https://arnowelzel.de/wp/en/creative-soundblasterz)
 * (Note: the “share” link in lightbox is intentionally hidden, but it could be 
   enabled of course – maybe I add some configuration for this in the backend)
 * Is the author of “PhotoSwipe” interested in the implementation? Otherwise I would
   create my own plugin.

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 *  Thread Starter [Arno Welzel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awelzel/)
 * (@awelzel)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/development-dead/#post-9633110)
 * Ok, I just learned that the creator of PhotoSwipe is building his own WordPress
   plugin and asks not to do your own one:
 * [https://github.com/dimsemenov/photoswipe](https://github.com/dimsemenov/photoswipe)
 *  Thread Starter [Arno Welzel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awelzel/)
 * (@awelzel)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/development-dead/#post-9644038)
 * After talking with the maintainer of PhotoSwipe (Dmitry Semenov) I created my
   own plugin to use PhotoSwipe in WordPress:
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/lightbox-photoswipe/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/lightbox-photoswipe/)

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 * [PhotoSwipe](https://wordpress.org/plugins/photo-swipe/)
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 * Last reply from: [Arno Welzel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awelzel/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/development-dead/#post-9644038)
 * Status: resolved