XenForo Media Gallery 2.2.5 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo Media Gallery 2.2 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability.
One-click upgrade to XenForo Media Gallery 2.2.5
Directly from your admin control panel
If you are a XenForo Cloud customer, your upgrade will be scheduled automatically.
Some of the changes in XFMG 2.2.5 include:
- Fix potential out-of-range error with adjusting media counts when albums are deleted
- Check moderated and deleted states when determining media comment visibility
- Fix incorrect variable usage in vBulletin importer
- Use a more generic icon for the default thumbnail for media embed media items.
- Do not display comments against ratings in the news feed when the comment can no longer be viewed.
- Add CLI command to rebuild album thumbnails.
- Prevent adding media to media items if the main add media permission is not given.
- Skip extension checking for media items that have been transcoded.
- Add setIsAutomated and setPerformValidations method to media creator.
- Adjust embedded media items in posts so the container fits the content better.
- Avoid layout shift when viewing media items.
- Avoid error logs if there is a non-existent attachment for a media item.
- Reset view/add privacy when moving album to/from category.
- Edit default category description to no longer attempt to link to the admin control panel.
- Include a user's pending media comments in various places
- Use validator to verify ffmpeg path in media attachment handler
- Rebuild album privacy caches when merging users
The following public templates have had changes:
Where necessary, the merge system within the "outdated templates" page should be used to integrate these changes.
- news_feed_item_xfmg_rating_insert
- xfmg_comment
- xfmg_comment_macros
- xfmg_gallery_bb_code.less
- xfmg_media_add_macros
- xfmg_media_list.less
- xfmg_media_note.less
- xfmg_media_view.less
- xfmg_media_view_macros
XenForo Media Gallery requires XenForo 2.2 or later.
Purchasing
XenForo Media Gallery can be purchased with a new license via the purchase page or with an existing license via the customer area.
Installation, upgrading and configuration
Please see our XenForo Media Gallery manual page for more information.
XenForo Media Gallery 2.2.4 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo Media Gallery 2.2 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability.
One-click upgrade to XenForo Media Gallery 2.2.4
Directly from your admin control panel
If you are a XenForo Cloud customer, your upgrade will be scheduled automatically.
Some of the changes in XFMG 2.2.4 include:
- Do not attempt watermarking if a valid source image can not be created
- Pass thumbnail width/height to the thumbnails to avoid layout shift.
- Efforts to more consistently render smilies and emojis in the XFMG latest comment widget. We also render more BB code. Similar to profile post widget.
- Fix RSS feeds for media lists showing an unexpectedly small number of items.
- When an album contains media with custom thumbnails ensure the album thumbnail is rebuilt as expected.
- When embedding a YouTube video, if a list parameter is included, exclude this from the URL when fetching the thumbnail image.
- For new signatures, disallow [GALLERY] bb code if the user does not have the "Allow embedded media" signature permission.
The following public templates have had changes:
Where necessary, the merge system within the "outdated templates" page should be used to integrate these changes.
- xfmg_comment_macros
XenForo Media Gallery requires XenForo 2.2 or later.
Purchasing
XenForo Media Gallery can be purchased with a new license via the purchase page or with an existing license via the customer area.
Installation, upgrading and configuration
Please see our XenForo Media Gallery manual page for more information.
XenForo Media Gallery 2.2.3 Released
XenForo Media Gallery 2.2.3 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo Media Gallery 2.2 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability.
One-click upgrade to XenForo Media Gallery 2.2.3
Directly from your admin control panel
Some of the changes in XFMG 2.2.3 include:
- Fix non-numeric value error when formatting EXIF exposure time values.
- Add support for pauseOnHover to media and album sliders.
- Fix a number of alert templates that may have been incorrectly using relative URLs in some cases.
- Add better default titles to the Latest Comments and Gallery Statistics widgets.
- Add a new method that can be used to find media items for album thumbnail generation.
- Fix regression that may have prevented adding embeds to a new personal album.
- Strip BB code from media comment news feed items.
- Skip importing media comments where the message is empty.
- Fix username being empty when importing media items from PhotoPost Pro.
- Adjust order of import steps from PhotoPost Pro to ensure member albums are imported into categories.
The following public templates have had changes:
Where necessary, the merge system within the "outdated templates" page should be used to integrate these changes.
- alert_user_xfmg_album_delete
- alert_user_xfmg_album_edit
- alert_user_xfmg_comment_delete
- alert_user_xfmg_comment_edit
- alert_user_xfmg_media_delete
- alert_user_xfmg_media_edit
- reaction_item_xfmg_comment
- search_form_xfmg_album
- search_form_xfmg_media
- xfmg_album_create
- xfmg_media_add_macros
- xfmg_media_view_macros
- xfmg_widget_latest_comments
XenForo Media Gallery requires XenForo 2.2 or later.
XenForo Media Gallery 2.2.2 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo Media Gallery 2.2 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability.
One-click upgrade to XenForo Media Gallery 2.2.2
Directly from your admin control panel
Some of the changes in XFMG 2.2.2 include:
- Fix an issue where media items imported from IPS Gallery did not retain the correct creation date.
- Ensure reacting to comments in the lightbox sidebar updates the reaction list.
- In rare cases where a media item is referencing an "original" version of an image that no longer exists, allow thumbnail rebuilds to fall back to the non-original (potentially watermarked) image.
- When adding media items to an already deleted album, do not increase the user's media count.
- Prevent users from accessing the embed media page without a context
- Add cache-buster to media item lightbox URLs
- Allow moderators who have "move any" permission to move media items into restricted albums
- Send watch alerts when approving comments
- When mirroring attachments to the media gallery automatically mark the media as viewed and, where applicable, automatically watch the media item.
- Ensure that phrases are escaped when used in the context of HTML attributes.
- When a pre-registration action is completed, only include the welcome for newly registered users.
The following public templates have had changes:
Where necessary, the merge system within the "outdated templates" page should be used to integrate these changes.
- alert_xfmg_comment_pre_reg
- push_xfmg_comment_pre_reg
- report_content_xfmg_album
- report_content_xfmg_media
- xfmg_album_add
- xfmg_album_create
- xfmg_album_view
- xfmg_category_add
- xfmg_category_list_macros
- xfmg_comment_macros
- xfmg_media_add_macros
- xfmg_media_embed_media
- xfmg_media_lightbox_sidebar
- xfmg_media_view
XenForo Media Gallery requires XenForo 2.2 or later.
Purchasing
XenForo Media Gallery can be purchased with a new license via the purchase page or with an existing license via the customer area.
Installation, upgrading and configuration
Please see our XenForo Media Gallery manual page for more information.
XenForo Media Gallery 2.2.1 Released
XenForo Media Gallery 2.2.1 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo Media Gallery 2.2 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability.
One-click upgrade to XenForo Media Gallery 2.2.1
Directly from your admin control panel
Some of the changes in XFMG 2.2.1 include:
- Allow batch media and album actions to be cancelled
- Ensure the date limit disabler is displayed even when media lists are filtered.
- Ensure personal album privacy can be adjusted on album creation.
- When displaying a list of media ordered by date, in some cases it is useful to MySQL to force a particular index hint in order to improve performance.
- Attempt to simplify the ExposureTime value down to a clearer value.
- When inserting EXIF data from mirrored attachments, avoid JSON encoding errors with malformed characters.
- Avoid a race condition when loading lightbox sidebar for media items and closing the lightbox before the sidebar has finished loading.
- If a user has no permission to view comments, only hide comments from the lightbox sidebar and not other elements, such as image metadata.
- Ensure "show more" item in embedded albums has an appropriate default width/height.
- Improves the appearance of embedded gallery audio media items
- When importing from vBGallery, check for duplicate ratings on the target database rather than the source database
- Only display visible and unignored media comments in the latest comments widget
- When unwatermarking images if the original data path cannot be found, remove the watermark flag. Also fallback to the non-original image in some cases in the unlikely event that the original image cannot be found.
The following public templates have had changes:
Where necessary, the merge system within the "outdated templates" page should be used to integrate these changes.
- xfmg_category_container
- xfmg_category_view
- xfmg_gallery_bb_code.less
- xfmg_media_index
- xfmg_media_lightbox_sidebar
- xfmg_media_view.less
- xfmg_media_view_macros
XenForo Media Gallery requires XenForo 2.2 or later.
Purchasing
XenForo Media Gallery can be purchased with a new license via the purchase page or with an existing license via the customer area.
Installation, upgrading and configuration
Please see our XenForo Media Gallery manual page for more information.
XenForo Media Gallery (XFMG) 2.2 sees a range of new features and improvements. Some of these are a result of new integrations with XenForo 2.2 itself, while others are exclusive new features to XFMG itself.
Lightbox navigation
Starting with XenForo 2.2 we are introducing a brand new lightbox which as well as being a much improved user experience also affords us some flexibility in how and where we use the lightbox.
One such use case which we couldn't resist treating you to for XFMG 2.2 is of course navigating through media items in the media gallery. Before we get into it, this is what the experience looks like.
The lightbox as used in the media gallery supports all media types including media embeds, video and audio.
By default the lightbox opens up a very useful sidebar which displays most of the information and functionality that you get if you go to the full media page. If you prefer not to view that information then you can collapse the sidebar. Sections within the sidebar can be expanded and collapsed as required and we remember your preferences here so only the relevant sections are displayed.
The lightbox will initially only contain the items from the current page but, as you can see in the video, you can continue navigating beyond the page you're on and we will load additional items from the subsequent page dynamically.
If you need to view the full media details and access the full functionality you just need to click the "New window" icon in the lightbox toolbar or click the caption of the image.
You can navigate through any media list in this way be that the list of media in an album or category, all media in the New media page or the entire media gallery via the media index.
We think this is an awesome way to navigate through the media gallery but if you prefer to keep things as they are (we won't be offended!) then you can disable it:
We should also take this opportunity to note that all of the lightbox functionality you see here is a general concept baked into the core lightbox itself so should any add-on developers which to add a similar navigation or sidebar concept to their existing lightbox implementations then this should be fairly trivial to do.
Attachment mirroring
For a very long time you have been telling us that you would like to have a slightly closer relationship between attachments in threads and posts and the media gallery, and the new "Attachment mirroring" system in XFMG 2.2 aims to somewhat bridge that gap. It starts with a forum-level or media category-level configuration:
While viewing a media category you can pick which forums attachments are mirrored from...
... and while viewing a forum you can pick which media category attachments are mirrored to.
Once you have specified which media category your forum should mirror attachments to, any attachments which are added to posts in that forum will be automatically created as media items in the specified gallery.
As an example, here is a post containing an image I have attached inside the "Travel and nature" forum:
And here it is now displayed in the media gallery:
As you can see here we make display a clear reference to the fact that the media item originated from a particular thread with the "Originally posted in: Thread 'Travel photos'" line. Thins links and takes you straight back to the post where the attachment was originally posted.
While viewing the thread, we also make clear that the attachment has been also posted over in the media gallery too. Of course images open up in the lightbox and when you do so, the media information opens up in the sidebar with an additional link that links back to the full media gallery view if needed:
But what about all of those existing threads with great images you might want to bring over to the media gallery? We've added a rebuild which will take care of that for you:
This allows you to have old items that were not yet mirrored synced into the media gallery, plus it will move or remove items from the media gallery as applicable if you disable mirroring or change the target category.
But wait... there's more!
In addition to these great features we have also added (or in the process of adding) support for the following previously announced XF 2.2 features including:
- Custom field output control support for media fields
- Activity summary support for latest albums, latest media and latest comments
- Writing before registering support for comments
Some of the changes in XFMG 2.1.8 include:
- When there is no permission to view media, ensure the custom BB code gallery button is removed appropriately.
- Fix incorrect conversion of some xengallery/ route filters when upgrading from XFMG 1.x.
- Update Add-on list FAQ link for the add-on to the correct version of the manual.
Some of the changes in XFMG 2.1.7 include:
- Prevent retaining IDs in a few gallery importers related to additional albums the importer creates for organizational purposes.
- Prevent undefined index errors when importing gallery comments from IPS Gallery.
- Improve performance of comments widget by constraining the query to only recent comments and set a hint toward the comment_date index.
- Prevent the audio timestamp from being hidden when displaying audio media via the [GALLERY] BB code.
The following public templates have had changes:
- xfmg_gallery_bb_code.less
Some of the changes in XFMG 2.1.6 include:
- Avoid errors when watermarking images and other media item tasks when the attachment data is missing.
- Prevent an error arising from missing attachment data when generating album thumbnails.
- Add some missing canonical tags and nofollow film-strip jump links.
- Fix incorrect route context for media/comments route.
The following public templates have had changes:
- xfmg_album_index
- xfmg_category_view
- xfmg_media_index
- xfmg_media_view_macros
Some of the changes in XFMG 2.1.5 include:
- When importing albums and pictures from vB Albums ensure that we do not double encode HTML entities and we strip BB code.
- Prevent a template warning from displaying when viewing the news feed which contains a rating feed item for a deleted media/album.
- Allow embedded media blocks to be aligned according to their parent container alignment (allow them to be centered or right aligned).
- Add missing route for the editor gallery browser which meant that pagination wasn't working as expected for browsing albums.
- Fix and change format of the exposure time EXIF data displayed on photos.
- Add a link to "Moderator actions" when viewing a media item or an album.
The following public templates have had changes:
- xfmg_album_view
- xfmg_gallery_bb_code.less
- xfmg_media_view