NextGEN Plus Changelog

v1.16.7 – 06.11.2025

• Fixed: HiDPI images missing.

v1.16.6 – 04-24.2025

• Fixed: Translation warning on admin pages

v1.16.5 – 01-17.2025

• Fixed: Title and caption allowed html tags.

v1.16.4 – 01-07.2025

• Added: code to improve existing license verification & validation process
• Fixed: fatal error on the thank you page
• Fixed: single image on pro grid album

v1.16.3 – 10-08.2024

• Hot fix releases for plus and starter

v1.16.3 – 10.07.2024

• Fixes: Escaping of cost estimates.
• Fixes: Warning for php 8.3.
• Improved code structure

v1.16.2 – 06.19.2024

• Fixed: Email content for order notifications
• Fixed: Pro Masonry and filmstrip display types limit with Pro lightbox
• Fixed: PHP Fatal when importing images

v1.16.1 – 04.10.2024

• Fixed: Various bugs and improved UI/UX in various places.

v1.16.0 – 02.08.2024

• NEW: Image Animations feature.
• Fixed: “Open album children in Pro Lightbox” setting was not in the Pro Albums settings.
• Fixed: Replacing the Twitter bird with an ‘X’ icon.

v1.14.0 – 01.09.2023

• Fixed: Miscellaneous bugs
• Changed: Removing POPE framework dependency where possible.

v1.13.0 – 12.10.2022

• NEW: Added Spanish translations.
• NEW: Added the filter ‘ngg_pro_display_license_form’ (bool) for devs to hide the license form on demand.
• NEW: Restrict Pro Search results to images matching a multi-word tag when searching for that exact tag.
• Changed: Removed use of Google Fonts. All necessary fonts are now bundled in NextGEN Pro.

v1.12.0 – 01.19.2022

• NEW: Replaced the previous upgrade process with a new one.
• Fixed: PHP 8.1 warnings and deprecations.
• Fixed: Pro Film displays lost styling when viewed as a child to an album.

v1.11.0 – 08.18.2021

• Fixed: Pro Lightbox could generate a fatal exception when closing and be unable to launch again
• Fixed: When NextGEN Plus has updates available WordPress will not show any other plugins available updates
• Fixed: Latest versions of WooCommerce will generate a fatal error viewing the WP-Admin when both WooCommerce and NextGEN Plus have available updates

v1.10.0 – 07.13.2021

• Fixed: Album breadcrumbs were not displaying
• Fixed: Autoupdate logs could not be displayed with PHP 8.0+
• Fixed: Possible fatal error when viewing the WP-Admin pages as a non-administrator user
• Fixed: Autoupdate could check for updates more than once at a time
• Fixed: Several small timing adjustments to the Pro Lightbox

v1.9.0 – 05.26.2021

• Fixed: Pro List Albums custom styling was not being applied
• Fixed: Pro Lightbox images appearing incorrectly when “Display sidebar at startup” is enabled with iOS

v1.8.0 – 03.24.2021

• Changed: Compatibility with NGG 3.9.0
• Fixed: Captions opacity dynamic with scrolling
• Fixed: Pro Albums linking issues with UTF8 names of child galleries or albums

v1.7.5 – 02.17.2021 * Fixed: Multiple word searches in the “Search” display type broke with pagination

v1.7.3 – 01.14.2021

• Fixed: Pro Lightbox not opening via trigger icons
• Fixed: Removed Composer dev dependencies from build

v1.7.1 – 01.13.2021

• Fixed: Pro Lightbox not opening

v1.7.0 – 11.25.2020

• Fixed: The “Search” display type could not search or tag filter using some UTF8 characters
• Changed: Several changes have been made for future jQuery 3.5 compatibility

v1.6.30 – 08.10.2020

• Fixed: Hover captions are broken with WordPress 5.5’s jQuery upgrade
• Fixed: Hover captions styling was slightly misaligned with MS Edge

v1.6.29 – 07.22.2020

• NEW: Added ‘minimum relevance’ setting to Search display type
• Fixed: Search display types could not be inserted into a page when results were limited to albums that were also sub-albums to another album
• Fixed: Pro Search’s template used incorrect HTML closing tags
• Fixed: Hover captions would misalign Pro Tile displays
• Fixed: Pro Lightbox routing issue could cause the incorrect image to appear when loaded a second time

V1.6.27 – 04.21.2020

• Changed: Pro Lightbox will now enforce a minimum of 50% available screenpace when calculating padding
• Fixed: ‘Open in Pro Lightbox’ setting not being honored by Pro Albums
• Fixed: Images with very long descriptions could not be shared to Pinterest due to URL limits
• Fixed: NextGen Pro was incorrectly appearing in the WordPress plugin listing when Plus was installed
• Fixed: Pro Film displays were not centered
• Fixed: Pro Film images were not center aligned when using the Photocrati theme
• Fixed: Pro Lightbox was bugged when viewing the results of a Pro Search display type
• Fixed: Removed inline javascript from display type templates

V1.6.23 – 3.17.2020

• Changed: Removed use of jquery.placeholder.js as it is no longer needed
• Fixed: Horizontal filmstrip carousels were appearing incorrectly when using a right-to-left language
• Fixed: Hover Captions did not appear correctly with the TwentyTwenty theme
• Fixed: Hover captions’ “Titlebar” style was displaying incorrectly
• Fixed: Prevent Pro Albums from displaying duplicate sub-albums and galleries when more than one Pro Album display exists on a page
• Fixed: Pro Albums could not display albums / galleries if they included an ampersand in their title
• Fixed: Pro Masonry displays were not working if the WordPress provided masonry.js was enqueued
• Fixed: Pro Sidescroll displays could sometimes show a horizontal scrollbar
• Fixed: Twitter Cards were passing a deprecated parameter

v1.6.22 – 12.12.2019

• Changed: Renamed nextgen-gallery-pro.po to nextgen-gallery-pro.pot for better Loco Translate compatibility
• Changed: Updated pressure.js used for image protection features
• Changed: Updated velocity.js used by the pro lightbox to scroll the comments sidebar
• Fixed: Hover captions sometimes caused JS errors if both image titles and descriptions were hidden
• Fixed: Masonry galleries could have small thumbnails along the right column with certain themes (like TwentyTwenty)

v1.6.22 – 12.12.2019

• Changed: Renamed nextgen-gallery-pro.po to nextgen-gallery-pro.pot for better Loco Translate compatibility
• Changed: Updated pressure.js used for image protection features
• Changed: Updated velocity.js used by the pro lightbox to scroll the comments sidebar
• Fixed: Hover captions sometimes caused JS errors if both image titles and descriptions were hidden
• Fixed: Masonry galleries could have small thumbnails along the right column with certain themes (like TwentyTwenty)

V1.6.19 – 10.15.2019

• Changed: Updated gettext PO source
• Fixed: Pro Tiled Gallery images sometimes had incorrect sizing and/or aspect ratios

v1.6.18 – 09.17.2019

• Changed: Removed fullscreen button in Pro Lightbox (deprecated by browsers)
• Fixed: Pro Lightbox urls invalid and not sharable
• Fixed: CSS typo galleria.nextgen_pro_lightbox.css

v1.6.15 – 09.10.2019

• NEW: Automatically retry loading dynamic thumbnail generation urls
• NEW: NextGEN Pro Tile display type
• Changed: Minimum version of NextGEN Gallery increased to 3.0.0
• Fixed: Memory optimizations when generating images
• Fixed: Retina images generated at appropriate size
• Fixed: Excessive license checks and problems with caching
• Fixed: Styling and markup tweaks for 2019 redesign

v1.6.12 – 03.27.2019

• Changed: Sharing with Facebook is now done through /share.php instead of the old /sharer/sharer.php
• Fixed: Albums did not display nested sub-albums if the child albums name was an integer
• Fixed: Horizontal Filmstrip and Slideshow galleries failed to run if their parent container was hidden at startup
• Fixed: NextGen Pro’s product file was causing NextGen’s activation routine to run too frequently
• Fixed: Pro Lightbox was scrolling to the top of the page after viewing a Pro Mosaic image

v1.6.10 – 03.27.2019

• Changed: Sharing with Facebook is now done through /share.php instead of the old /sharer/sharer.php
• Fixed: Albums did not display nested sub-albums if the child albums name was an integer
• Fixed: Horizontal Filmstrip and Slideshow galleries failed to run if their parent container was hidden at startup
• Fixed: NextGen Pro’s product file was causing NextGen’s activation routine to run too frequently
• Fixed: Pro Lightbox was scrolling to the top of the page after viewing a Pro Mosaic image

v1.6.8 – 12.13.2018

• Fixed: Images “shared” to Facebook will no longer be directed to the site frontpage when visited
• Fixed: Pro Lightbox was unable to open older, “preview image” based ATP galleries

1.6.7 – 10.09.2018

• Changed: Numerous phpdoc entries have been corrected
• Changed: Upgraded FontAwesome to version 5
• Fixed: Pro Imagebrowser navigation was positioned incorrectly with RTL languages
• Fixed: Pro Lightbox carousel was misstyled with RTL languages
• Fixed: Pro Lightbox was not honoring ‘Apply to all images’ lightbox setting

V1.6.4 – 07.24.2018

• NEW: Added French translations
• NEW: Added German translations
• NEW: Added Slovakian translations
• NEW: Browsers on mobile devices can now use the Pro Lightbox and open-with-comments-sidebar features
• NEW: Pro Masonry displays can now have proofing enabled (requires hover captions, pro lightbox)
• Changed: Plugin URL in ngg-plus.php has been updated for accuracy
• Fixed: Hover captions compatibility with thickbox effect
• Fixed: Pro Lightbox image captions were sometimes floated when sharing icons were disabled
• Fixed: Pro Lightbox images were not correctly centered at startup under iOS
• Fixed: Pro Masonry displays included a single gallery-level trigger icon that should not have been included

V1.6.0 – 05.16.2018

• NEW: Complete redesign of NextGEN Gallery backend interface
• NEW: Pro Lightbox option to disable carousel thumbnails
• NEW: Pro Lightbox uses Facebook JS SDK to generate share dialogs
• Changed: Optimized Pro Lightbox for performance, especially mobile devices
• Changed: Galleria.js upgraded to the latest version (1.5.7)
• Fixed: Gutenberg compatibility
• Fixed: Pro Lightbox sidebar overlay not being removed when comments are disabled / users must be registered
• Fixed: Pro Lightbox will no longer attempt to use synchronous XHR

V1.5.7 – 06.21.2017

• NEW: Added Dutch translations as provided by Frank Leenders
• Changed: Updated Pro Lightbox comment mechanism to use latest WP conventions
• Changed: Uses KSES sanitization where applicable
• Fixed: Pro Lightbox routing when wordpress_page_root not defined
• Fixed: NextGEN Widget always opens first image in Pro Lightbox
• Fixed: Masonry display in Twenty Seventeen has overlapping image borders

V1.5.5 – 05.23.2017

• Changed: Updated to PictureFill 3.0.2
• Changed: Use KSES sanitization for output of properties which allow HTML
• Fixed: Ability to include html in pro thumbnail caption templates
• Fixed: Removed tooltip caption showing on top Pro Mosaic hover captions
• Fixed: Stripped certain html tags from hover caption effects

V1.5.0 – 03.28.2018

• NEW: Pro Imagebrowser Gallery
• NEW: Template support for Pro Galleries (requires NextGEN Gallery 2.2.0 or later)
• NEW: Three new Pro Imagebrowser templates (requires NextGEN Gallery 2.2.0 or later)
• NEW: Three new Pro Thumbnail Grid templates (requires NextGEN Gallery 2.2.0 or later)
• Changed: Branding changes from Photocrati to Imagely
• Fixed: Incompatibilities with Elegant Themes
• Fixed: Hover captions not appearing
• Fixed: Misalignment of images in the Pro Lightbox
• Fixed: Images appear as zoomed in the Pro Lightbox
• Fixed: Various PHP warnings and notices
• Fixed: Album setting ‘Open gallery in Pro Lightbox’ working on thumbnail but not title
• Fixed: Presure.js generating errors in IE11 in certain cases
• Fixed: Pro Lightbox ‘Localize limit’ interferes with Pro Album ‘Open in Lightbox’ option
• Fixed: Ensure that modules are loaded when NGG re-activates using WordPress 4.7

V1.3.33 – 12.13.2016

• NEW: Added display type aliases to Pro display types
• Changed: Minimum required version of NextGEN Gallery is now 2.1.49 or higher
• Changed: Upgrading PHP-Parser to 2.1.0 for PHP7 compatibility for build generation
• Fixed: The ability to key “k” during a Pro Sidescroll
• Fixed: Pagination not working with “Open gallery in Pro Lightbox” feature for albums
• Fixed: Conflict with Gravity Forms
• Fixed: The ability to key “k” during a Pro Sidescroll
• Fixed: Pagination not working with “Open gallery in Pro Lightbox” feature for albums

V1.3.31 – 11.15.2016

• Fixed: Don’t double-minify static resources in gulp build script
• Fixed: Hover captions working on all display types
• Fixed: Pro lightbox not working on iOS
• Fixed: Scrolling not working on iOS
• Fixed: Long tap image protection improvements on iOS
• Fixed: Only show “display galleries as” option for albums when relevant
• Fixed: Pro Sidescroll galleries are moved offscreen until they initialize

V1.3.29 – 10.12.2016

• Fixed: Use local version of imagesloaded if not provided by WordPress for Pro Sidescroll

V1.3.28 – 10.12.2016

• NEW: Added Pro Sidescroll Gallery
• Changed: Now uses gulp for package compilation & JS/CSS minification
• Changed: Removed “by Photocrati” from plugin description
• Changed: Reorganized lightbox settings design to be more intuitive
• Fixed: Hover captions not running and/or not including image descriptions in some circumstances
• Fixed: Long press on mobile devices opening context menu when image protection was enabled
• Fixed: Pro Mosaic previously required NextGen’s lightbox setting to not be “None”

V1.3.24 – 08.31.2016

• NEW: Added the ability to click on album galleries to open in Pro Lightbox
• Changed: Mentions of Photocrati to Imagely
• Fixed: Images not responsive for all display types
• Fixed: Long image descriptions being obscured by the Pro Lightbox sidebar
• Fixed: Ensure Pro albums show gallery descriptions on gallery-within-album pages
• Fixed: Ensure that Retina images fit within the same dimensions as non-retina images on Pro Film and Pro Album types

V1.3.19 – 08.01.2016

• NEW: Gulp build system
• NEW: Added “Enable fullscreen” option to Pro Lightbox
• NEW: Added image thumbnail to lightbox sidebars (when browser width < 520px)
• Changed: Increased size of Pro Lightbox sidebar
• Changed: Pro Lightbox carousel no longer obscures the displayed image
• Changed: Updated JustifiedGallery to 3.6.1
• Fixed: Resolved all found PHP warnings/notices/deprecations and strict errors
• Fixed: Pro Mosaic spacing issue when margin option set to zero
• Fixed: Navigating to a new image in the Pro Lightbox sometimes using the prior images url when sharing to social media
• Fixed: Horizontal Filmstrip & Slideshow not displaying ecommerce triggers
• Fixed: Horizontal Filmstrip not displaying carousel thumbnails with Photocrati Theme

V1.3.14 – 04.26.2016

• Fixed: Navigating to a new image in the Pro Lightbox sometimes using the prior images url when sharing to social media
• Fixed: Horizontal Filmstrip & Slideshow not displaying ecommerce triggers
• Fixed: Horizontal Filmstrip not displaying carousel thumbnails with Photocrati-theme

V1.3.13 – 03.15.2016

• Fixed: Ensure that modules are compiled and that CSS/JS is minified

V1.3.10 – 02.25.2016

• Changed: All templates now use “echo esc_attr()” instead of esc_attr_e() to avoid possible translation incompatibility
• Changed: Pro Lightbox can now more efficiently initialize with large galleries
• Changed: Pro Lightbox close-lightbox, toggle-sidebar, and toggle-carousel icons are much larger on touch devices
• Changed: Pro Lightbox now defaults to the “white” style
• Changed: Pro Lightbox now has its own routing code and does not rely on backbone.js. Closing the pro-lightbox no longer ends in a URL of “#”
• Changed: Pro Lightbox sidebars are now 350px and not a variable width
• Changed: Pro Thumbnail Grid now defaults to never displaying trigger icons
• Changed: Removed Pro Lightbox option “touch transition effect”: Galleria.js ignores this setting for touch devices if swipe is enabled.
• Changed: Removed iframes from Pro Slideshow and Pro Horizontal Filmstrip, upgraded to Galleria 1.4.2
• Changed: Fullscreen button now switches padded Pro Lightbox to Fullbrowser
• Fixed: Changing the orientation of Chrome on iOS will no longer result in more than one main-image being displayed at once
• Fixed: Comments module was generating a warning post WP 4.4
• Fixed: Picturefill module was not working correctly with images containing spaces in their URL
• Fixed: Pro Blog Gallery compatibility with TwentyFifteen theme (some attributes were not applying to the img element, our CSS needed a finer selector)
• Fixed: Pro Grid Album thumbnails appeared outside their container with IE-11
• Fixed: Pro Horizontal Filmstrip now handles mixed-height thumbnails in the carousel
• Fixed: Pro Lightbox comments were not linking to the origin URL correctly
• Fixed: Several changes were made to the Pro Lightbox to be more mobile (especially iOS 9) friendly
• NEW: All modules are now compiled before distribution
• NEW: Finnish translation
• NEW: NextGen Pro Mosaic display type
• NEW: Pro Lightbox can be padded and toggled full-browser
• NEW: Pro Lightbox sets opacity through CSS class instead of inline style

V1.3.5 – 07.13.2015

• Fixed: Galleria module not updated during auto-update process
• Fixed: Comments module not updated during auto-update process

V1.3.0 – 06.22.2015

• NEW: Retina support for Pro display types
• NEW: Hover captions for Pro display types
• NEW: Breadcrumb support for Pro Albums
• NEW: Internationalization support
• NEW: Sharing images supports Twitter Card
• NEW: Added max height option for Pro Blog display type
• Changed: NextGEN Pro Lightbox does not require transients
• Changed: Significant performance improvement to NextGEN Pro Lightbox. Removed iframes.
• Changed: Default thumbnail dimensions for horizontal filmstrips are 120×90
• Fixed: jQuery explicitly marked as dependency for Masonry
• Fixed: Auto deactivation of NextGEN Plus when NextGEN Pro is activated
• Fixed: Various styling issues of NextGEN Pro Lightbox
• Fixed: CSS z-index issues with the Pro Lightbox
• Fixed: Restore scroll position after closing the Pro Lightbox in full-screen mode
• Fixed: Display checkboxes in comment form regardless of theme
• Fixed: Display triggers for blog style galleries when images are a mix of landscape and portrait photos
• Fixed: Determine whether override image settings is enabled for blog style
• Fixed: Broken blog style images

V1.1.3 – 11.18.2014

• Fixed: Autoupdate should not be dependent on NextGEN Gallery

V1.1.1 – 11.17.2014

• Fixed: Register display types with the Insert Gallery Window at activation time

V1.1 – 11.13.2014

• NEW: Image protection feature to protect from theft
• NEW: Added NGG_ALLOW_CROSS_ORIGIN_FRAMING constant for those that need it
• NEW: Pro Lightbox compatibility with WPML
• Changed: Don’t enqueue scripts or styles unless we require them
• Changed: Default all pro display types ngg_triggers_display to ‘always’
• Fixed: Forward-compatibility with NextGEN Gallery
• Fixed: Use NextGEN Gallery’s version of FontAwesome
• Fixed: Problems with album routing
• Fixed: Pro Lightbox not opening correctly on Firefox
• Fixed: Social sharing links of the Pro Lightbox pointed to the wrong image
• Fixed: Pro Lightbox performance improvements
• Fixed: Reversed pro thumbnail grid hover effect to avoid image saturation
• Fixed: Alignment issues

V1.0 – 06.18.2014

• New: Introductory release of NextGEN Plus! Past NextGEN Pro changelog available for reference below
• NEW: Misc bugfixes and improvement to the Lightbox
• NEW: Lightbox now includes Velocity.js for better performance