PhotoPress

Changelog

1.9.0

• Image Sizes tab: the quality JPEG and WebP sizes are saved at, 92 by
  default. WordPress’s own is 82, which can show on detailed photographs;
  sizes made after updating are at 92 unless set otherwise. Every
  registered image size is listed, from WordPress, the theme and plugins,
  with a switch to stop making it. « Regenerate image sizes » makes every
  image’s sizes again from its original in the background, a few images at
  a time, resting between batches and waiting while the server is busy.
• Licence embedding writes the licence into an image’s metadata without
  re-encoding the image, for JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, TIFF, HEIC and AVIF, so
  uploads keep the pixels they were exported with. Imagick is used only
  where that is not possible, and is no longer required.
• Licence embedding replaces a Web Statement the file already has, rather
  than adding a second, and keeps the file’s Web Statement or Licensor when
  no setting replaces it.
• Masonry and Mosaic galleries no longer move as a page loads: they are
  laid out before the page is first shown. Masonry no longer loads the
  masonry and imagesloaded scripts.
• Gallery images, and Gallery Slideshow images, download a file of the
  size they are shown at, rather than one for the full width of the window.
• The full-screen slideshow no longer enlarges an image beyond its own
  size, and shows images that have only one size.
• Gallery block: the Columns setting is hidden under the Masonry, Rows and
  Mosaic layouts, which set their own, and a gallery can be switched back
  to the plain gallery from the block’s variation switcher.

1.8.0

• Gallery Slideshow: a Caption max width setting, a share of the
  slideshow’s width, 75% by default. Captions stay at least about 50
  characters wide, and the full width on phones. Existing slideshows get
  the default; set it to 0 for captions as wide as the slideshow. Where the
  window’s height limits an image, the image gives up the height a
  narrower caption needs.
• Gallery Slideshow: works with dynamic galleries (WordPress 7.1), showing
  the images attached to the post.
• Meta-data tab: « Re-read image metadata » re-reads every image’s
  taxonomies, alt text and description from its file. It runs in the
  background in batches, with its progress and a Cancel button on the tab.
• Offload Media tab, where WP Offload Media is installed: its status, where
  files are stored and served from, how long browsers and the CDN keep
  offloaded images (by default 1 day, then 1 hour while checking for a new
  one), and a button to clear the CloudFront cache.
• Fixed: the Slideshow tab had no Caption Padding field, and the Meta-data
  tab no Description template field.

1.7.3

• Fixed: in the Mosaic gallery layout, some images hung over the row below
  at wider window widths. Each image now fills its place in the row exactly,
  at its own proportions.

1.7.2

• Fixed: in the Gallery Slideshow, the previous image briefly showed behind
  the new one after clicking to the next slide.
• Gallery Slideshow: the slideshow keeps one height for every slide, as tall
  as its tallest image at full width, so the page below does not move. That
  height, caption included, now stays within the visible window (on phones,
  the height visible with the browser bars shown). Shorter images are
  centred in it.
• Fixed: the full-screen slideshow’s Caption Padding setting had no field on
  the Slideshow settings tab.

1.7.1

• Fixed: on sites with a page cache, pages cached before updating to 1.7.0
  could load the new slideshow script with the old page, and clicking a
  gallery image no longer opened the full-screen slideshow until the cache
  expired. Those pages now work as they did before the update.

1.7.0

• New: Masonry, Rows and Mosaic layouts for the WordPress Gallery block, as
  block variations. They look the same in the editor as on the site. Existing
  PhotoPress galleries keep working, and can be converted from the block’s
  Transform menu.
• New: the full-screen slideshow can be turned on for any Gallery block, and
  image captions can be hidden.
• New: Gallery Slideshow block, an inline slideshow of a gallery on the same
  page. Clicking an image in the gallery shows it in the slideshow, with a
  button to return to the gallery. Captions can go below, left or right of
  the image, with adjustable padding. « Hide the gallery » shows visitors only
  the slideshow.
• New: Image Taxonomies block, the block version of the « Display Taxonomies »
  widget, for block themes. Choose which taxonomies to show and whether terms
  link to their archives.
• Full-screen slideshow: opens at once on the image that was clicked, rather
  than after about two seconds. With a mouse, clicking anywhere on the left or
  right half goes back or forward, with a large arrow showing which. A new
  Caption Padding setting. Wide images no longer run under the arrows.
• Full-screen slideshow fixes: several slideshow galleries on one page now
  work independently; clicking an image in a second gallery opens that image;
  galleries without the slideshow are no longer taken over; arrow keys only
  act while the slideshow is open; closing no longer leaves an invisible layer
  over the page; images with a single size no longer show as broken
  thumbnails.
• Metadata: a rewritten XMP reader that keeps values it used to lose (some
  locations, credits, licensing and contact details) and reads Extended XMP.
• Alt text on upload no longer produces « . . » when a template’s fields are
  empty, and hierarchical keywords such as « person:Name » contribute their
  value.
• Settings are validated by type when saved, and a failed save shows why.
• Security: slideshow settings are escaped in the page. The image taxonomies
  are available to the block editor for users who can edit posts, and remain
  hidden from the public REST API.
• Fixed: a fatal error when the plugin was installed from source without
  building its scripts.

1.6.0

• Requires WordPress 6.6 or later.
• Uploads use far less memory and time reading image metadata. Only the part
  of the file that holds the metadata is read, rather than the whole image.
• The block editor scripts are rebuilt with the current WordPress tooling. The
  editor script is about 25 times smaller, and it now uses the copies of React
  and the WordPress libraries already loaded by WordPress.
• Fixed: the camera name was left blank when it was recorded only in XMP
  metadata and not in EXIF.
• Fixed: metadata was ignored in files that begin with an XMP packet, such as
  .xmp sidecar files.
• Fixed: a PHP 8 deprecation notice raised on every upload.

1.5.2

• Fixed: uploads failed with « The server cannot process the image » whenever
  licence information was configured. This was a 1.5.1 regression; images that
  failed to upload can simply be uploaded again.

1.5.1

• Licence embedding no longer requires the ExifTool binary. It now uses Imagick,
  which WordPress already relies on for image handling. This removes about 26MB
  from the plugin and means licence embedding works on hosts that disable exec().
• Existing metadata is preserved when licence information is written. Titles,
  captions, keywords, ratings and any other XMP a photographer had embedded are
  kept intact; previously the licence fields were the only thing that could be
  written without risking the rest.
• Fixed: the Web Statement of Rights setting was ignored and a placeholder value
  was embedded instead. If you have that setting configured, re-upload affected
  images to correct them.
• Fixed: a settings field using the « none » control registered without a valid
  type.
• Fixed: a PHP 8 deprecation notice raised when embedding licence metadata.