This has to do with the aspect ratio of your images. Slick always maintains the original aspect ratio of the image.
The height of each gallery is determined by the height of the tallest image in it. The width of the gallery is always the full width of the post.
The images you add are slotted in and centred both vertically and horizontally in the gallery. This prevents the page content from moving around when you navigate between images of different heights and keeps the navigation buttons fixed in one place.
I took a look at the translation issue @Francois_Douville I have a temporary workaround for now. You need to make a small edit to the theme. Go to the </head> section and look for this:
Tiles / Slick got a tiny update today that deals with the translation issue. They will now use the awesome locale check described in @simon’s great post here
The locale for the translated strings will automatically be set and you will not need to mess around with the theme code after this update.
My images are larger than the maximum allowed dimensions, I get the gallery preview but in the actual post the gallery isn’t displayed, just normal images. Could you confirm that this works on the version I have installed? Thanks
Sure, I checked and everything seems to be OK on v2.2.0.beta3 +136
Do you mean lighboxes or just images? Slick only targets lighboxes so that would explain why it’s not working for you. If that’s the case, It sounds like sidekiq is paused / not running on your site. Try checking
Thanks for the reply. There was an unknown issue on my site that was causing lightboxes to take a few minutes to generate, and it was this that was causing this plugin not to work. All seems to be working now
the 3rd, 6th and 7th images are in a slideshow without the 4th and 5th (don’t show up at all)
I assume this is linked to the different sizes of images… so is there a workaround other than changing the size of the source pictures? It seems that changing the size parameter in the code does not improve things.
Any help would be appreciated!
EDIT : now I’ve tried with all images reduced to the same size : they are all displayed one below the other, and no slideshow at all…
The issue you’re seeing occurs because you’re using small images. The images you’re using are not large enough for Discourse to generate lightboxes.
There are two relevant settings for this
max_image_height which defaults to 500px
max_image_width which defaults to 690px.
Discourse looks at images uploaded in posts and if they exceed the demisions set in either of those settings, it creates lightboxes for them.
Now, you’re free to change those the values of those settings on your site to force Discourse to generate lightboxes for smaller image; however, I would not recommend doing that.
That setting is also linked to the max deminsions an image can be displayed at, so if you change max-width to say… 500px, then the maximum width any image will display at in a post will also be 500px - the same applies to changing the max-height setting.
What I would recommend is to use larger images that exceed either the max-height setting or the max-width setting. The component would then work with those images without any issues.
Am I the only one who see two of the same icons for the Slick Image Gallery? It didn’t use to be like that.
When I removed the component from my theme, both icons disappeared. When I added the component back, they both reappeared. Both buttons serve the same function.
