Change Layout Of SP Easy Image Gallery
Klaus
Hi Since I upgraded to Joomla 4 and pagebuilder 5.05, the sp easygallery seems to be quite a mess.
If i want to change some variables in option of easygallery theres not much to change anymore.
Th pop-up window only shows width/height. Theres no columns, gutter width and variations for mobile and tablet anymore.
I do agree with many forespekers here. I used the Pagebuilder 3. It was a great tool. But now even with 5.05 it's full of bugs. At least there's a backend editor now. God thanks? As some others claimed already, I personally think your customers are mainly pros not end-customers. I tried to teach end customers many years to use just a simple front end editor, it mainly failed. Very often the just make a huge mess out of the page which I afterwards have to clean up.
So if your reals customers are pros not end-custoerms they most likely work on desktop machines with big screens. That may lead to the questions if it wasn's wiser to work on a good back end edtior first and once it is good, look for a simple front end editor.
Mehtaz Afsana Borsha
Accepted AnswerHi
Thanks for contacting us. Could you please give me a screenvideo of your issue? So that I can add it to our bug list.
-Regards.
Randy Garbin
Accepted AnswerI'm seeing the same issues.
Also, changing the size of the thumbnail has no effect.
Klaus
Accepted AnswerHi everybody
I found a part of the solution. On can change "gutter width" "columns" etc. only withon the menu link to the gallery.
Go to Menu/link to the gallery (i.e. schottland in my case). There switch to Gallery Options.
You can change here everything except the size of the thumbnails, which (as it appears) can only be change for all galleries at once. So no different sizes in different galleries. Why this is the case I do not understand.
©Randy Garbin Changing thumnail size has still no effect on my page either.
Klaus
Accepted AnswerO.k. just did another test.
If you (Menu to gallery link) change the columns for say 4 to 2, the size of the thumbnails changes according to the width of your template. The bad thing: it seems thumbnails are not beein resized, rather just blown up (check 1 column and you can see what I mean.)
I changed the layout for a test to "rectangle" https://www.klausfrei.com/travel/schottland
Tricky ...
Randy Garbin
Accepted AnswerThanks for the tip about the menu item. In my case, the module is placed on a Pagebuilder page. I guess I'll have to create a hidden menu item just to control the gallery? Hardly an elegant solution.
Just so that the developers know, I am currently maintaining a rather large website built on Helix and extensively using Pagebuilder. I am having a horrible time upgrading this site to version 4. I'm getting pretty close to recommending Wordpress for the site's next iteration — and I don't like Wordpress.
I don't want to sound like a crank, but if I can't make these transitions easily, it costs me some serious time and money.
Klaus
Accepted AnswerGood luck. I've already tried several times to migrate to Joomla 4. Everytime it ended in a mess. But I did not spend too much time so far and it was only for test reasons, as I should migrate several pages in the near future.
It seems that Joomla 4.0 is not realy reliable so far. Furthermor everybody, like Joomshaper, seems to think they must change their components completely. I don't now if you've tried PageBuilder 4.x. It was no good at all, especially if you consider how good it was before.