Customer Cloud Gallery – Google Drive & Dropbox Image Gallery

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1.17.1

• Improved (Pro): statistics dashboard — “Most popular photos” now has one row per list (favorites, views, downloads and, with the print shop, ordered prints), in rank order with the count written under each photo. Each row switches between the top 10, 50 and 100.
• Improved (Pro): “Latest activity” shows small previews of the photos involved and is as tall as the chart next to it; longer lists scroll inside the card. A click opens the photos large right away, and with the privacy switch off, Google Drive previews in the dashboard load straight from Google, as in the gallery.
• Improved (Pro): an expanded visitor shows three tabs — favorites, downloads (including whole-gallery and selection ZIPs) and the photos they opened most often.
• Fixed: files with the same name could end up twice under one name in a download — for example “Foto.jpg” twice next to a “Foto_1.jpg” — and one photo overwrote the other when unzipping. Every file now gets its own name, also when names differ only in upper and lower case.
• Fixed: when the server-side ZIP (the fallback for old browsers) could not load a file from the cloud, the file was left out without a word. The ZIP now contains a “MISSING FILES.txt” that lists them, and the statistics only count files that were actually included.
• Fixed: the shortcode option per_page, for example [ccgal_gallery id=”123″ per_page=”10″], had no effect; the gallery always loaded its own setting.
• Improved: when you unpublish, trash or delete a gallery, the preview images cached on your server for its photos are deleted too, so a copied preview address stops working. While a gallery is not published, its editors still see previews in the dashboard, but they are no longer stored under a public address.
• Fixed (Pro): in galleries with chapters that load more photos while scrolling, the chapters stayed empty when the main folder fit into the first batch; with more photos, the first ones appeared twice.
• Fixed: the daily clean-up of cached preview images could stop running, for example after switching between the free and the Pro version. It is now rescheduled automatically.
• Fixed: in the folder download (Chrome and Edge save the photos straight into a folder), a photo that could not be loaded left an empty file with its name behind; it is now removed. A download in which no photo arrived no longer counts in the statistics.

1.17.0

• New: videos. Videos in the gallery folder appear in the grid with a play icon and play in the lightbox. Large files start within seconds: the plugin streams them in pieces instead of loading the whole file first, so seeking works too. Google Drive videos get a poster frame; Dropbox videos show a dark tile.
• New: per gallery you choose whether videos are included in “Download all” — off by default, because a film can be several gigabytes. Single downloads and hand-picked selections always include them.
• New: a video the browser cannot play (for example HEVC without codec, MKV or AVI) shows a short note instead of a black player, with a download button when downloads are allowed.
• Fixed: with the free version installed while a Pro license is active, the gallery no longer shows the “Order prints from selection” button of the print shop, which is not part of the free version.
• New (Pro): statistics dashboard. One overview for all galleries with time ranges, visitors, views, favorites and downloads compared with the previous period, an activity chart and a feed of what your clients did last. Each gallery gets its own page: the most-loved photos as a podium, a compact visitor list with each visitor’s favorites, “copy file names” for Lightroom, a CSV per visitor, and reset. A small widget on the WordPress dashboard shows the last 7 days.
• New (Pro): Settings → Statistics turns statistics on automatically for new galleries.
• Improved (Pro): your own visits, downloads and favorites no longer count in the statistics while you are logged in as someone who can edit the gallery.
• Fixed (Pro): a new visitor no longer counts twice, and a “Download all” in the browser counts each file once instead of twice. The comparison with the previous period reappears once that period lies entirely after the update.
• Fixed (Pro): print orders are limited per visitor and per email address; before, the limit could be bypassed, so a form script could send any number of order emails. One order now holds up to 150 photos, and the gallery says so when more are selected — before, the order page silently dropped everything after the first 50. The order CSV no longer lets spreadsheet formulas from customer fields run in Excel.
• New: privacy switch. Settings → Advanced → Privacy → “Load previews and videos through this website”: visitors’ browsers then only connect to your site, never to Google or Dropbox. On for new installations; existing sites keep their current behaviour until you switch it on. The suggested privacy policy text follows the setting.
• Improved: the settings are split into tabs — cloud storage, design, texts and advanced.
• Improved (Pro): simpler menu — All galleries, New gallery, Dashboard, Print shop (orders and print settings as tabs, with the number of new orders) and Settings with an extra Statistics tab. The gallery list shows one Activity column instead of three number columns.
• Improved: “Download all” works for archives over 4 GB and for large videos. Files from 256 MB are streamed instead of being loaded into memory, a dropped connection resumes, and macOS Archive Utility opens the archives.
• Improved: when the cloud cannot be reached, visitors see a neutral message instead of the raw Drive or Dropbox error.
• Fixed: galleries behind a page cache stopped loading photos after 12–24 hours. Galleries now use an access key bound to their page and renewed every 30 days instead of an expiring nonce; the photo list, videos and downloads check the page password on every request, and gallery data is never stored by page caches (LiteSpeed Cache stores REST answers by default).
• Fixed (Pro): the print order page only opens from the gallery. Before, anyone who knew a gallery ID could get its photo list there, even for a password-protected gallery.
• Fixed (Pro): the statistics compared the site’s local time with the database clock, so depending on the time zone repeat views were counted twice or real visits were missed.
• Fixed (Pro): “Order prints” stays off while only videos are selected, quantities are capped at 99 on the page and on the server, the print page shows a short note instead of the raw shortcode when Pro is not active, and it no longer shows Drive previews without the watermark.
• Fixed: with downloads switched off, the video player no longer offers “Save video as” in its right-click menu.

1.16.1

• Fixed: the “Pay now via PayPal” button in the order confirmation email now works when a PayPal email address is set in the print shop settings (not only a PayPal.Me name), and it passes the shop currency.
• Fixed: toolbar buttons that should be hidden (“Load more”, “Download favorites”, “Download selection”, “Clear selection”) stayed visible without any function.
• Fixed: a gallery inside a tab or accordion that is closed when the page loads (Elementor and other page builders) now lays out as soon as it is opened.
• Fixed: clicking “Show favorites only” while images were still loading no longer leaves the view incomplete.
• Fixed: umlauts and other non-ASCII characters in the gallery title are kept in the ZIP file name.
• Fixed: in folders with more than 20,000 images, the images beyond that could not be opened or downloaded.
• Improved: the lightbox opens with the keyboard (Enter or Space on an image). Focus stays inside the lightbox and returns to the image when it closes.

1.16.0

• New (Pro): layouts. Besides the justified rows, a gallery can now use a masonry grid, a square grid or a filmstrip that scrolls sideways — plus spacing between the images (0 px for a seamless mosaic) and a corner radius, all per gallery in the editor.
• New (Pro): hover effect (zoom, darken or none), file-name captions on hover or always, and a light or dark lightbox with an optional thumbnail strip for quick navigation — per gallery in the editor.
• New (Pro): watermark. Put your logo on every preview — grid and lightbox — with position, size and opacity of your choice. Downloads stay clean: they stream the original file, never the watermarked preview.
• New (Pro): chapters. Turn it on in the gallery editor and every subfolder of the gallery folder becomes its own section with a heading — “Getting ready”, “Ceremony”, “Party” — with a jump navigation above the grid. Photos in the folder itself come first; a leading number in a folder name (“01 …”) sets the order and is not shown. Favorites, the lightbox and downloads work across all chapters, and “Download all” keeps the chapters as folders inside the ZIP.
• New (Pro): the watch folder can now create a page for every new gallery as well — a copy of a template page of your choice, with its Cloud Gallery block, Elementor widget or shortcode pointed at the new gallery. Title and status follow the gallery (draft or published). The template’s password is deliberately not copied, so each client gets their own.
• Fixed: single-image downloads pause while a ZIP download is running, with a short note — instead of silently breaking the running archive.
• Fixed: no more “textdomain loaded too early” notice in the debug log after activating the plugin. The folder-watch cron schedule is now registered on init, and the print-order page is created on the first request after activation instead of inside the activation hook.
• Fixed: after activation, the welcome redirect landed on the gallery list instead of the settings page (HTML-escaped redirect URL).

1.15.2

• The box in the gallery sidebar is now called “Add to a page” and lists all three ways to show a gallery: the block, the Elementor widget and the shortcode. It used to be called “Shortcode”, which hid the block from exactly the people looking for a way around shortcodes.
• New: a one-time pointer in the gallery list and in the gallery editor points at that box, so the block and the Elementor widget also reach people who dismissed the update notice.
• Fixed: in the title image settings, a label could stay at the end of one line while its dropdown moved to the next.

1.15.1

• Fixed: an “&”, an apostrophe or quotation marks in a gallery title were shown as HTML code — “Anna & Tom” appeared as “Anna & Tom”. This affected the preview card in the block editor, the title image above a gallery, the gallery pickers in the block and in the Elementor widget, the gallery list, the statistics dashboard, print-order emails and the order CSV export.
• Fixed: the folder inside a bulk-download ZIP carried the same HTML code in its name.

1.15.0

• New (Free): “Cloud Gallery” block for the block editor. Pick a gallery from a list; the editor shows a preview card with the first images, the page shows the full gallery. Wide and full alignment supported.
• New (Free): Elementor widget “Cloud Gallery” with loading-mode and image-size overrides. Galleries initialise inside the Elementor editor preview.
• New (Pro): create galleries from the editor. In the block and in the Elementor widget, choose a subfolder of your main folder and the gallery is created on the spot (title taken from the folder name, editable). An existing gallery for that folder is reused.
• New (Pro): title image. Each gallery can show a cover photo above the grid — from the gallery folder or the media library — with the gallery title and a subtitle on it, adjustable height and image focus, a soft gradient or darkened overlay, at content width or edge to edge.
• New: after the update, a one-time “What’s new” note on the plugin’s own admin pages lists the new features with a link to the documentation.
• The gallery editor’s shortcode box now also points to the block and the Elementor widget.
• New (Free): folder picker. Set a main folder once under Settings → “Main folder”, then choose each gallery’s cloud folder from a dropdown in the gallery editor — no more copying folder URLs or typing paths. Works for Google Drive and Dropbox.
• New (Pro): automatic galleries (“watch folder”). The plugin watches your main folder and creates a gallery for every new subfolder — title taken from the folder name, settings copied from a template gallery of your choice, created as draft (or published directly); a notice in the gallery list tells you what was created. Existing folders are only registered when you enable the feature, so nothing is created retroactively. Includes a “Scan now” button; opening the gallery list also triggers a check.
• The new subfolder listing endpoint requires the manage-options capability (like the existing folder check), keeping private cloud folder names restricted to administrators.
• New (Free): “Test connection” button on the settings page for each connected provider. It checks the whole chain step by step — access token, folder listing, a real image download and the thumbnail cache folder — and gives a plain-language hint for anything that fails (e.g. a Dropbox app missing the files.content.read permission, or “App folder” access instead of “Full Dropbox”).
• New: Pro features are now shown greyed out with a “PRO” badge where they would live (print orders and visitor statistics in the gallery editor, automatic galleries in the settings), so it is clear what the upgrade adds. The free plugin is unchanged.
• New: after two weeks of use with at least one published gallery, a small, dismissible note on the plugin’s own admin pages asks for a WordPress.org review — with “Maybe later” (30-day snooze) and “Don’t ask again”, remembered per user.
• Freemius SDK updated to 2.13.4 (configurable API timeout, PHP deprecation fixes).
• Fixed: ZIP download filenames no longer contain HTML entities when the gallery title has an apostrophe or special characters (e.g. “It’s_a_Madhouse.zip” is now “It’s_a_Madhouse.zip”).

1.13.5

• Fixed: ZIP downloads finally open correctly in macOS Archive Utility. Root cause found by analysing an affected customer’s actual ZIP file: the archive’s end-of-file record declared the table of contents as 0 bytes long, so macOS found “no readable items” while more tolerant tools opened the same file fine. The size was read from a memory buffer after it had already been handed off to the download stream. Affected every streaming bulk download since 1.13.2, regardless of gallery size. Huge thanks to Chris Tess for the persistent testing that made this diagnosis possible.
• Fixed: the server-side ZIP fallback (used for very large galleries when the browser download path is unavailable) now also writes each entry’s size and checksum before the data, making its archives readable by strict sequential extractors, and no longer declares ZIP64 for ordinary entries. Failed files are skipped cleanly instead of leaving a broken entry in the archive.

1.13.4

• Fixed: ZIP downloads still could not be opened with the built-in Archive Utility on macOS (“the archive is empty or contains no readable items”), even after the fix in 1.13.3 — there were two separate causes and only the first one was addressed. Entries were marked as coming from a Unix system but carried no file type and no permissions, so macOS did not recognise anything readable inside. Every entry is now stored as a regular file with normal read permissions. Applies to all bulk downloads (all images, selection, favorites).

1.13.3

• Fixed: ZIP downloads could not be opened with the built-in Archive Utility on macOS, which reported the archive as empty, while other tools (e.g. The Unarchiver) opened the same file correctly. Each entry’s size and checksum are now written directly into its local header instead of being appended after the data, so extractors that read the archive sequentially can open it. Affects all bulk downloads (all images, selection, favorites). Thanks to Chris Tess for the detailed report.

1.13.2

• Bulk download: downloading a whole gallery (or a selection) now saves a regular ZIP file straight to your Downloads folder in every modern browser — no more folder-permission prompt in Chrome/Edge. The streaming download path (no memory limit, works for multi-GB galleries) was previously disabled by an overly strict internal check and never actually ran; Firefox and Safari were silently limited to in-memory ZIPs (max ~1.8 GB, iOS 500 MB) or the slow server fallback. The folder-picker mode remains available as an automatic fallback.

1.13.1

• Bulk download (all / selection / favorites): a ZIP is no longer presented as “done” when files failed to download. If nothing could be retrieved the download is cancelled with a clear error instead of saving an empty ZIP, and partial results now report exactly how many of how many files are missing.
• Bulk download: permanent errors (e.g. an expired security token) no longer cause three slow retries per file, so a broken download fails fast instead of slowly producing an empty archive. Added flow-control to the streaming-ZIP service worker to keep memory bounded on very large (multi-GB) downloads.
• Security: the admin image/video preview endpoints and the folder-validation endpoint now require the “manage options” capability (previously “edit posts”), so lower-privileged users cannot probe the connected Drive/Dropbox account. Raw storage-provider error messages are no longer echoed to the browser (they are logged when WP_DEBUG is enabled).
• Drive/Dropbox: a single visitor can no longer trigger repeated full folder re-listings by probing random file IDs (folder refresh is now rate-limited), protecting your cloud API quota; and a temporary API error no longer hides a real image for several minutes.
• ZIP archives now carry the UTF-8 filename flag, so names with umlauts or accents (e.g. “Müller_001.jpg”) extract correctly in Windows Explorer.
• Privacy / GDPR: personal-data export and erasure for print orders now depend on whether order data exists, not on the Pro licence state, so a downgraded site still fulfils data requests. The uninstaller now also removes the Pro statistics tables.
• Performance (Pro): the statistics tables are no longer re-checked with dbDelta on every request, and a new composite index speeds up view de-duplication.
• Frontend fixes: marking a favorite no longer flips the heart on a failed request; the lightbox no longer re-opens after being closed mid-load; the “show all favorites” view no longer retries endlessly on a network error; the images-per-batch setting is clamped to a sane range; the “Clear cache” button now also clears the cached folder listings.
• Pro admin fixes: the inline statistics toggle no longer shows a green “saved” tick when the server rejected the change (e.g. with cookies disabled); the order-status dropdown reverts and warns if saving fails; paper-price-list rows no longer overwrite each other after a row is deleted; renaming a price-list key no longer silently detaches it from the formats that use it.
• Additional stability fixes: stable visitor-table ordering, defensive guards on Dropbox API responses, and folder validation no longer overwriting text while you are still typing.
• Image cache: thumbnails and previews are now downloaded to a temporary file first and moved into the cache atomically (both the direct-thumbnail and the resize fallback path). Previously a PHP process killed mid-download (timeout, traffic spike) could leave an empty or truncated image behind that was then served forever; such stale entries now heal themselves on the next request, and transfers that deliver fewer bytes than announced are detected and discarded.
• Statistics (Pro): top-list entries whose file no longer exists in the connected cloud folder are labelled “No longer in the cloud folder” instead of opening an empty tab.

1.13.0

• Security hardening: unpublished galleries (draft, private, pending, trashed) can no longer leak original files. The publish-status guard now covers the single-file, ZIP and manifest download endpoints as well as the batch, favorite, order and print-format REST routes. Logged-in editors with access to the gallery are unaffected.
• Performance: per-gallery statistics are now memoized per request, cutting redundant database queries on the gallery list and detail pages; the cloud folder listing is cached in a short-lived transient so concurrent visitors and infinite-scroll requests collapse to a single Drive/Dropbox API call per page instead of one call per view.
• Dropbox galleries now honour the gallery’s sort order and “images per page” setting: the Dropbox folder listing is sorted (natural name, name, or date — ascending/descending) and paginated consistently, so the grid order and the ZIP order match. This brings Dropbox in line with the existing Google Drive behaviour.
• The bundled German (de_DE) translation loads again on self-hosted and Pro installations (the textdomain loader was restored on the init hook). Sites served a translation through WordPress.org language packs are unaffected; the language pack still takes precedence when present.
• Fixes: Dropbox statistics detail-page thumbnails and full-size links now resolve correctly; the statistics fetch limit was raised from 30 to 50 with an honest item-count badge.
• Pro statistics detail page UX refactor: the per-gallery statistics page is now collapsible and scales cleanly to galleries with thousands of images. Each of the four top-lists (Top Favorites, Top Viewed, Top Downloaded — single, Top Downloaded — selection) is wrapped in a native HTML5 <details> element with the item count visible in the header even when collapsed. Each section has a per-section limit dropdown (5/10/25/50/All, default 10). The visitor activity table now uses true pagination (25 per page default) so that galleries with hundreds of visitors no longer produce a 10,000-pixel-long scroll page.
• Pro inline toggles in the gallery list (WP-Admin → Customer Cloud Gallery → All galleries): two new checkbox columns let you flip a gallery’s Statistics-tracking and Print-shop on or off without entering the gallery editor. Each checkbox saves via its own per-gallery-scoped AJAX endpoint with nonce + capability check; optimistic UI feedback, server-authoritative state correction, screen-reader friendly (each checkbox has an aria-label naming the gallery; the disabled-reason for Stats when cookies are off is reachable by keyboard). The Stats toggle correctly mirrors the existing master-cookies dependency — when cookies are off for a gallery, the Stats sub-switch is locked off too.
• Pro stats “unique_visitors” consistency fix carried over from the 1.12.2 hotfix: the top-card counter now counts distinct cookies across all activity tables (views ∪ favorites ∪ downloads), matching the “Besucheraktivität” table below.
• Pro stats deletion fix carried over from the 1.12.2 hotfix: “Reset tracking data” and per-visitor “Daten löschen” now also clear favorites in addition to views and downloads.

1.12.2

• wp.org Plugin Directory review compliance (round 3):
• cURL → WordPress HTTP API: the four remaining cURL call sites in includes/class-dropbox-adapter.php (download_to_file, stream_to_output, download_thumbnail) and includes/class-google-drive-adapter.php (stream_to_output) have been fully ported to wp_remote_request() / wp_remote_get() with stream => true. File downloads write directly to disk via the WordPress HTTP API (no PHP memory buffering); the streaming-to-browser cases stream the response body to a WordPress temp file via wp_tempnam() and then echo it back in 64 KB chunks, with HTTP 206 Range support preserved by forwarding the Range header. The Dropbox content-type issue is solved by sending Content-Type: application/octet-stream, which Dropbox accepts on /files/download and /files/get_thumbnail_v2. The plugin no longer contains a single curl_*() or CURLOPT_* reference in its own code; only the Freemius licensing SDK in vendor/ still uses cURL, which the Plugin Review Team’s guidelines explicitly permit for third-party vendor libraries.
• Plugin Assets handbook compliance: verified that no banner-*.{png,jpg}, icon-*.{png,jpg,svg}, screenshot-*.{png,jpg}, blueprints/ or header.png files exist in the plugin ZIP, and that all plugin-resource references use the dynamic functions plugins_url() / plugin_dir_path() / plugin_dir_url() (via the CCGAL_URL / CCGAL_DIR constants) rather than hardcoded /wp-content/plugins/... paths. Listing assets (banner, icon, screenshots) are prepared in the source repository under .wordpress-org/ for deployment to the SVN /assets/ root after approval — they are deliberately excluded from the plugin ZIP per the Plugin Assets handbook.
• Video files in cloud folders are temporarily excluded from gallery listings (image files only). The in-browser video player and the related streaming endpoint are not exercised by visitors in 1.12.2. Video support will be re-introduced in a later release; existing video files in connected Drive/Dropbox folders are not touched, only hidden from the gallery output.
• Pro statistics tracking improvements:
  • The JS-level state.viewedInLightbox Set in assets/js/gallery.js is now cleared when the lightbox closes, so a visitor who closes the lightbox and reopens the same image is counted as a new engagement (the server-side 10-minute dedup window still applies on top of this — see below).
  • $wpdb->insert() calls in record_view, record_image_view and record_download now log to error_log() if the insert fails (gated on WP_DEBUG), so future silent-skip failures are observable instead of being swallowed by a 200 OK response.
  • Server-side dedup windows are unchanged: 1 hour per (gallery, visitor) for page-loads, 10 minutes per (gallery, file, visitor) for lightbox image-opens. These are appropriate for both client-delivery galleries and public-page galleries (suppresses bot crawl + reload-spam without losing legitimate re-engagement).
• Pro stats deletion fix (includes/class-dashboard__premium_only.php): the “Reset tracking data” button on the gallery detail page AND the per-visitor “Daten löschen” button now correctly delete favorites in addition to views and downloads. Previously the favorites table was untouched, so the UI promise (“Deletes all favorites, downloads and views”) was not honoured and the per-visitor delete looked like a no-op when the visitor had only favorited images and no other activity.
• Pro stats “Eindeutige Besucher” consistency fix (includes/class-tracking__premium_only.php::get_gallery_stats): the top-card counter now counts distinct cookies across ALL activity tables (views ∪ favorites ∪ downloads), not just page-load views. Previously the counter only saw visitors who had a file_id IS NULL row, so visitors whose page-load was suppressed by the 1-hour dedup window or who arrived via a full-page cache (no PHP execution) — and only triggered AJAX-based image-views or downloads — were invisible to the top counter even though they correctly appeared in the “Besucheraktivität” table below. Both numbers now agree.

1.12.1

• wp.org Plugin Directory review compliance (round 2):
• Statistics module fully extracted from the Free build. The tracking class, stats tables, the stats sub-switch UI, the views/downloads admin columns, the view/image-view REST endpoints and all download-recording call sites have been removed from the Free codebase and consolidated into a single Pro-only file (class-tracking__premium_only.php). Free has zero stats footprint on disk; Pro hooks into the Free build via generic action/filter names (e.g. ccgal_download_completed, ccgal_gallery_deleted, ccgal_uninstall_tables) so the Free code stays decoupled.
• Frontend JS Stats-Reste removed: the previous recordView()/recordImageView() functions and the trackBulkComplete() beacon are gone. The Free gallery.js now only dispatches generic ccgal:gallery-opened / ccgal:image-opened CustomEvents; the bulk-download helper calls a renamed notifyBulkCompleted ping to a ccgal_notify_bulk_complete AJAX endpoint. None of those reach a database table in Free.
• Prefix refactor: every declared name (constants, classes, functions, hook names, option keys, post-meta keys, table names, AJAX/admin-post action slugs, CSS classes, custom properties, JS globals, script/style handles, REST namespace, custom HTTP header, cache directory and the gallery post-type slug) has been renamed to the 5-character ccgal_/CCGAL_/ccgal- prefix to comply with the wp.org “prefix must be over 4 characters” rule. The browser visitor cookie keeps its legacy name wpg_visitor so existing visitor favourites remain attached after the migration — the only intentional exception.
• Database migration: an idempotent activation-time routine renames all WP options, post-meta keys, the gallery post type, the custom tables (favorites, orders, order_items + Pro: views, downloads), the leading-underscore _system_page meta marker, the daily cron event and the thumbnail cache directory. The routine excludes its own version-marker option from the bulk rename (so the guard can still be read on a re-activation if anything below crashes), extends set_time_limit(300) for large postmeta tables, and writes a transient admin notice if a RENAME TABLE fails (e.g. missing ALTER permission on shared hosting). Shortcodes in existing post_content are rewritten in place ([ccg_gallery], [hochzeitsgalerie], [customer_cloud_gallery] → [ccgal_gallery]; same for the print variant). The migration guards against re-runs via the legacy/new db-version markers.
• Security: the public AJAX endpoints ccgal_serve_image and ccgal_stream_video now require a gallery-scoped nonce (ccgal_gallery_<id>) issued by the gallery renderer, in addition to the existing file-in-folder check. Draft / private / trashed galleries are rejected on the public branch unless the caller has edit_post capability. $_SERVER['HTTP_RANGE'] is now unslashed and length-capped before the strict preg_match validator. $_COOKIE['wpg_visitor'] is now sanitized through a hex-only whitelist matching the generator. $_REQUEST['gallery'], $_REQUEST['count'] and the array-branch of $_REQUEST['files'] are now consistently wp_unslash()-ed before further sanitization. json_decode() of the _REQUEST['files'] payload runs with depth=4 so a JSON bomb cannot DoS the file-IDs parser.
• The Plugin URI header has been removed from the main plugin file because the SSL certificate for the linked domain is not yet provisioned. The Author URI is unaffected.

1.12.0

• Faster bulk-download for the “Download all images” button. The button now picks the best path automatically: (1) in browsers with the File System Access API (Chrome/Edge/Opera) the visitor picks a target folder and the photos are written there directly, fetched in parallel (6 connections); (2) on Firefox/Safari/HTTPS sites a service-worker-backed streaming ZIP is built in the browser — no RAM limit, multi-GB galleries work without buffering; (3) small galleries can fall back to a single in-memory ZIP blob; (4) the existing server-streaming ZIP remains as the last-resort fallback. Across realistic gallery sizes this typically reduces wait time by 4–6× on the parallel paths because the server is no longer the single-threaded bottleneck. The hard listing limit per gallery raised from 5,000 to 25,000 files. New endpoint ccgal_download_manifest exposes the gallery’s file …