Announcements – Aquoid

Photonic Version 3.05 – Bug Fixes, Minor Patches

Sayontan — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 02:45:46 +0000

I released version 3.05 of Photonic a little while ago. This is a minor release with a few bug-fixes: For some WP installations, the CSS was appearing as malformed. I have modified the code to “escape” the CSS and have it display correctly. A bug was introduced in the lazy-loading implementation, which was causing lightboxes […]

Photonic Version 3.04 – Lazy Load & Markup Reduction

Sayontan — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 02:57:08 +0000

I released version 3.04 of Photonic a little while back. This version has a few major changes: Happy photo-blogging!

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Photonic Version 3.03 – PHP 7.1, Minor Improvements

Sayontan — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 16:40:19 +0000

I released version 3.03 of Photonic on Monday this week. This is a minor release with some big changes under the hood: Enjoy this release!

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Photonic Versions 3.00-3.02 – RIP PHP 5.6, RIP IE

Sayontan — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 14:30:37 +0000

I released a new version of Photonic on 5th April 2023. Technically I released 3 new versions, but that happened only because soon after releasing the first version I realized that the WordPress core code does not quite read PHP version information the way I was expecting it to. These are the main features of the latest version…

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Upcoming Changes in Photonic – PHP 7.0+ Syntax

Sayontan — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 20:11:02 +0000

I have been holding off on one Photonic change for a while now – dropping support for PHP 5.6. Here is some background for context: In any case, quite a few releases back, I had bumped up Photonic’s PHP version requirement to 7.0. However, at that time, I did not switch to using any syntax specific to PHP 7.0 or higher. In other words, even if you ran Photonic on PHP 5.6, you would be fine.

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Photonic Version 2.84 – Miscellaneous Fixes, and Bye Bye Instagram

Sayontan — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:40:39 +0000

I released version 2.84 of Photonic after a long hiatus. There were a couple of reasons for the hiatus. Firstly, I have been really, really busy with the job that puts food on my table. Secondly, Photonic has been remarkably stable for a long time. However, this change was necessitated due to one major change in an external source. So, here’s the change log: Happy photo-blogging!

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Photonic Version 2.80 – PhotoSwipe v5 and Stability

Sayontan — Thu, 05 May 2022 22:05:01 +0000

I released version 2.80 of Photonic last evening with the following changes. New Features I added support for PhotoSwipe v5. Photonic has had support for PhotoSwipe since October 2018, but that was for v4, which is still the predominant version out there. The new v5 version is a rewrite from the ground-up. However, like the […]

Recent and Upcoming Changes to Photonic – 2.76 to 2.79

Sayontan — Wed, 04 May 2022 17:52:13 +0000

Over the past couple of weeks you might have seen a few new releases of Photonic come through. Most of these changes (versions 2.76, 2.77, 2.78 and 2.79) were done with the WordPress Plugins team and focused on aspects of security hardening, updating scripts and changing a few things with the overall approach for the plugin. In the process, I have been making several security improvements…

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Photonic Version 2.75 – Spotlight and Cron

Sayontan — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:23:08 +0000

I released version 2.75 of Photonic on Monday (20th September), after a hiatus of 3+ months. While the gap was quite long, it was mainly because the plugin has been very stable, and I have been actively providing support on the support forum. As it happens, I did not publish a change log for the last few versions, so I will attempt to do a catch-up change log here. Hope you enjoy this…

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Photonic Version 2.71 – Flickr Group Duplication

Sayontan — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 18:45:19 +0000

Version 2.71 of Photonic was released on 1st March. This is a minor release and it addresses two minor bugs: If a gallery was attempting to show Flickr groups in conjunction with other features such as tags, the gallery was being shown an additional time. Considering the low usage of the Flickr Group feature, this […]