Hello,

Please have a look at this discussion and watch the video there.

Hello,

I watched the video and try but again and again Joomla changed the link by itself.

I can't save the link without the information which are added by Joomla.

Hello Ivo,

My research on this "problem" has apparently revealed the behavior of Joomla 4, which is the standard modification of the link when inserting images in the "Images and Links" area.

As a result, I would expect that with a Joomla 4 template that is equipped and delivered with various Gantry 5 Particles, these will then also work error-free and without any action on the part of the customer.

Of course I can replace all particles that don't work 100% or I have to live with the limitations, but then the look and functionality of the page is no longer what I bought the template for.

What's next in this case?

Best regards

Hello Bernd,

Adding the image meta data in the image URL is indeed a feature which was discussed in great details here.

I wasn't aware that you no longer can delete the image meta data (the solution shown in the other discussion).

As a result, I would expect that with a Joomla 4 template that is equipped and delivered with various Gantry 5 Particles, these will then also work error-free and without any action on the part of the customer.

You are right to expect those things, and the last couple of days I was trying to find a solution but I couldn't. I will explain why...
As you know, our particles use the Gantry 5 API to fetch Joomla article content.
Unfortunately, the Gantry 5 API does not offer a method that will clear the Image URL. Therefore there is nothing we can do.
To give you more context, the attached screenshot shows the code in the "Content PRO (Joomla)" particle that is responsible for fetching the Image URL. There is simply nothing else that we can replace this code with, so we can get the clean Image URL (without the meta data).

The only workaround is to either disable the Lightbox functionality or to use the "Content PRO" particle (not "Content PRO (Joomla)") where you enter all the data manually.

Hi Bernd,

One of our users (thank you Simon!) found a workaround for this issue.
It involves a bit of manual work but at lease allows you to use the Lightbox.
I'm pasting his reply below:


In the Article Edit, don't use the image selector, instead type the full URL of the image.

So instead of using the selector, which spits out:
images/[filelocation]/[filename]#joomlaImage://local-images/[filelocation]/[filename]?width=952&height=500

Type in manually:
https://www.yoursite.com/[filelocation]/[filename]

Joomla doesn't adjust this code, and it works with the lightbox