Image Handler 4 (for v1.5.x) Support Thread

[i-make-robots]

I can see you're reluctant to say "this css tag feature is not available." Ok. thanks anyhow!

[DivaVocals]

I can see you're reluctant to say "this css tag feature is not available." Ok. thanks anyhow!

Why would I be reluctant?? Your issue is just not related to IH4.

Here's the HTML generated by your social media plugin:

<div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled"><div class="robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing"><h3 class="sd-title">Share this:</h3><div class="sd-content"><ul><li class="share-twitter"><a rel="nofollow" class="share-twitter sd-button share-icon" href="http://www.marginallyclever.com/blog/2013/01/chainsaw-wielding-robot-arm-makes-furniture/?share=twitter" target="_blank" title="Click to share on Twitter" id="sharing-twitter-1800"><span>Twitter</span></a></li><li class="share-google-plus-1"><a rel="nofollow" class="share-google-plus-1 sd-button share-icon" href="http://www.marginallyclever.com/blog/2013/01/chainsaw-wielding-robot-arm-makes-furniture/?share=google-plus-1" target="_blank" title="Click to share on Google+" id="sharing-google-1800"><span>Google +1</span></a></li><li class="share-reddit"><a rel="nofollow" class="share-reddit sd-button share-icon" href="http://www.marginallyclever.com/blog/2013/01/chainsaw-wielding-robot-arm-makes-furniture/?share=reddit" target="_blank" title="Click to share on Reddit"><span>Reddit</span></a></li><li class="share-pinterest"><a rel="nofollow" class="share-pinterest sd-button share-icon" href="http://www.marginallyclever.com/blog/2013/01/chainsaw-wielding-robot-arm-makes-furniture/?share=pinterest" target="_blank" title="Click to share on Pinterest"><span>Pinterest</span></a></li><li class="share-email"><a rel="nofollow" class="share-email sd-button share-icon" href="http://www.marginallyclever.com/blog/2013/01/chainsaw-wielding-robot-arm-makes-furniture/?share=email" target="_blank" title="Click to email this to a friend"><span>Email</span></a></li><li><a href="#" class="sharing-anchor sd-button share-more"><span>More</span></a></li><li class="share-end"></li></ul><div class="sharing-hidden"><div class="inner" style="display: none;"><ul><li class="share-stumbleupon"><a rel="nofollow" class="share-stumbleupon sd-button share-icon" href="http://www.marginallyclever.com/blog/2013/01/chainsaw-wielding-robot-arm-makes-furniture/?share=stumbleupon" target="_blank" title="Click to share on StumbleUpon"><span>StumbleUpon</span></a></li><li class="share-linkedin"><a rel="nofollow" class="share-linkedin sd-button share-icon" href="http://www.marginallyclever.com/blog/2013/01/chainsaw-wielding-robot-arm-makes-furniture/?share=linkedin" target="_blank" title="Click to share on LinkedIn" id="sharing-linkedin-1800"><span>LinkedIn</span></a></li><li class="share-end"></li><li class="share-digg"><a rel="nofollow" class="share-digg sd-button share-icon" href="http://www.marginallyclever.com/blog/2013/01/chainsaw-wielding-robot-arm-makes-furniture/?share=digg" target="_blank" title="Click to Digg this post"><span>Digg</span></a></li><li class="share-tumblr"><a rel="nofollow" class="share-tumblr sd-button share-icon" href="http://www.marginallyclever.com/blog/2013/01/chainsaw-wielding-robot-arm-makes-furniture/?share=tumblr" target="_blank" title="Click to share on Tumblr"><span>Tumblr</span></a></li><li class="share-end"></li><li class="share-facebook"><a rel="nofollow" class="share-facebook sd-button share-icon" href="http://www.marginallyclever.com/blog/2013/01/chainsaw-wielding-robot-arm-makes-furniture/?share=facebook" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook" id="sharing-facebook-1800"><span>Facebook</span></a></li><li class="share-print"><a rel="nofollow" class="share-print sd-button share-icon" href="http://www.marginallyclever.com/blog/2013/01/chainsaw-wielding-robot-arm-makes-furniture/" target="_blank" title="Click to print"><span>Print</span></a></li><li class="share-end"></li><li class="share-end"></li></ul></div></div><div class="sharing-clear"></div></div></div></div></div>

Don't see anything in here that is remotely a part of IH4.. Try a different social-media plugin and see if your issue is resolved..

[DivaVocals]

Hi!

I have integrated a wordpress blog in my zen cart 1.5.0 store. I've installed image handler 4 and some sharing icons.

http://www.marginallyclever.com/blog/

IH4 javascript seems to have taken control of the sharing icons. Now when I click them they don't work. Is there a CSS class tag I can add so IH4 will ignore these icons and let them work as normal?

Thank you!

When I go through Firebug to inspect the DOM and the click() action pulls up IH4 javascript instead of the javascript for the sharing plugin.
So yes I believe it does. You can check it yourself at that URL.

I can see you're reluctant to say "this css tag feature is not available." Ok. thanks anyhow!

As I said, it's unlikely that the issue is IH4, but an issue with WordPress.. In this case you should look at your "W3 Total Cache" plugin which is minimizing some of your WordPress AND Zen Cart CSS and javascripts.

Perhaps excluding the Zen Cart scripts from caching may solve your issue.. You can also try a different social media plugin.. There are HUNDREDS of them available in the WordPress repository. I'd suggest the one for Add This as it's possible that they will not have the same issue as the scripts and CSS for this plugin are not local and are hosted on Add This site.

For the record, I'm not reluctant to say "this css tag feature is not available.". I'm reluctant to come to the same conclusions that you have because I don't think your conclusion is true.. Many folks have used the same Numinix blog embedding solution and to date NO ONE has reported any issues with IH4. Given the symptoms you are reporting it is MORE likely that the issue is being caused by a WordPress conflict, and I am suggesting that you should start there to resolve this..

Hope you get it all worked out, but I'm positive IH4 is NOT the issue here..

[pasi]

Tried to search but got too many results to go through them all...

Anyway, the problem is that some images are in GIF format. JPG images are resized correctly, but the GIF images aren't resized at all.

Before I go deeper into checking what is wrong, I wanted to ask if IH4 actually supports resizing GIF images, or if there is any known "issues" or "fix" to this.

[1atom12]

Greetings IH4 experts, I have a general question about this mod. Will it help reduce the amount of server overhead my site is generating? I'm being pestered by my hosting company to reduce my CPU usage. I am on a VPS. Running my site through various website speed check sites, the biggest thing that keeps popping up negative are my images.

Here's my site if anyone wants to take a peek:

heathersheavenlyvapes.com

[DivaVocals]

Greetings IH4 experts, I have a general question about this mod. Will it help reduce the amount of server overhead my site is generating? I'm being pestered by my hosting company to reduce my CPU usage. I am on a VPS. Running my site through various website speed check sites, the biggest thing that keeps popping up negative are my images.

Here's my site if anyone wants to take a peek:

heathersheavenlyvapes.com

IH4 as the opening thread (and readme) states will optimize your product and category images.. However, if you have other optimization issues on your site, or images in other places on your site (non product/category images) IH4 will not resolve those issues.

[DivaVocals]

Tried to search but got too many results to go through them all...

Anyway, the problem is that some images are in GIF format. JPG images are resized correctly, but the GIF images aren't resized at all.

Before I go deeper into checking what is wrong, I wanted to ask if IH4 actually supports resizing GIF images, or if there is any known "issues" or "fix" to this.

If you are trying to use different image formats on the same product, then you will have issues. (all images for a single product must be the same format) And if I remember correctly IH4 does NOT support GIF files..

[weif]

Tried to search but got too many results to go through them all...

Anyway, the problem is that some images are in GIF format. JPG images are resized correctly, but the GIF images aren't resized at all.

Before I go deeper into checking what is wrong, I wanted to ask if IH4 actually supports resizing GIF images, or if there is any known "issues" or "fix" to this.

There are issues in many cases related to resizing .gif images, and a lot of on-the-fly image resizers either can't resize .gifs, or don't because of issues. The biggest issue I've seen resizing .gifs is that since they are already in indexed color mode, you almost always get really bad looking images. In addition, there are copyright issues with publishing .gif images on the web that you should be aware of...

I can't speak as to whether IH4 should handle .gifs for you or not, but I would strongly encourage you to replace those .gof images with either .png or .jpg versions, which will address the issue you are seeing and the problems with resizing .gifs.

[nigelt74]

Yep IH4 supports GIFs, an example from my test site is the original GIF image here as uploaded



and the product listing here


where image handler is, well handling it

As for any patent issues with gifs, I am fairly sure those patents expired 10 years ago

Tried to search but got too many results to go through them all...

Anyway, the problem is that some images are in GIF format. JPG images are resized correctly, but the GIF images aren't resized at all.

Before I go deeper into checking what is wrong, I wanted to ask if IH4 actually supports resizing GIF images, or if there is any known "issues" or "fix" to this.