Hi there!
Before I check in all your issues I need to confirm that is not a compatibility problem. Therefore, I would ask you to try the same things you tried, with only my plugins set to ON in the plugin manager.
Then tell me what worked with only my plugins on.
But regardless that, if there is a compatibility problem, I will need a sample project made by you so I can see the issues happening and try to find the error.
But need to say, with Visustella, nothing is guaranteed due to the obfuscation.
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Now the first problem seems to me to be that the image is not loaded at first, and so, that could be a problem since the plugin can't know whee to start the text because it cannot measure the picture size because it is not loaded. I believe I may be able to fix that, if it is not a compatibility problem.
The duplicate on CGMZ probably is a compatibility.
And the escape code is well written on the database.