The page can be found here. The only difference between the two html files is, that for the “broken” one the Meow Lightbox was active and for the “worked” file not. Maybe you will be able to find the critical point.
I looked at the PHP Error Logs and found the following repeated entry: “in gallery both ‘id’ and ‘ids’ attributes are used in the same shortcode. ‘id’ will be ignored.”
I tried to compare on “code-editor view” the pages which are not broken to those where the lightbox activation breaks most content. I could not really find a difference. Here a code example: A gallery starts like this: wp:meow-gallery/gallery {“images”:[{“alt”:””,”id”:9291,”link”: ….
The shortcode at the end of the gallery is: “[gallery ids="9291,9290,9292,9293" link="media" layout="square"]“
Later in the day I will activate the lightbox for a test and send you a copy of the page source code of a “broken” page and after deactivation of the “correct” page.
there is no change in the effect on my website with Lightbox version 5.3.8! Once activated, it still breaks all my posts in the same manner. Do you have any idea what the cause might be?
as promised, yesterday I repeated some testing. I have used the version 5.3.6 and also the new update 5.3.7. Here, in short, my very reproducible results of the behavior of the lightbox. I will show a test on one of my blog posts (cycling tour through Tuscany in Italy). Here the link: https://blog.maiwolf.de/tuscanytrail The behavior is:
Meow gallery active and Lightbox V5.3.6 activated => page breaks at the yellow dashed line (the page content above is shown until the horizonal line, below this everything until the footer is missing!) The missing content contains several Meow galleries, single images and many text paragraphs. Nothing special.
Meow gallery active and Lightbox V5.3.6 deactivated => looks completely fine.
Meow gallery active and Lightbox V5.3.7 installed and active => page breaks exactly at same position and with the effects on the blog post as with version 5.3.6
Meow gallery deactivated and Meow Lightbox V5.3.6 active => fotos look fine in lightbox, but of course the galleries are not showing as normal, but all page content is shown
My conclusion: It looks like, that if both plugins (Meow gallery and Lightbox) are active, page breaks and content is missing. Just the Meow gallery alone, together with a different lightbox plugin (I use now “Lightbox mit PhotoSwipe”) luckily works fine. So I have a workaround until the Meow lightbox will get fixed. As I use for now this “workaround” setup, you will be able to the effect caused by your plugins. Please tell me, if you need the source code of the broken and/or normal page.
This reply was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by maiwolf.
thanks for your quick response. Please be patient. In the coming 2-3 days I will test a few things and I will come back with more detailed infos and examples.
In the meantime I have found a workaround. It looks like, that a single image in a gallery was the “cause”. Removing the respective gallery restored all other galleries of this post! Once this single “problem image” was removed and newly uploaded to the WordPress mediathek the gallery could be generated again and everything looked fine. Strange phenomenon, as I did not change anything on this rather “old” image in posts, which are some years old.
