I am using the ‘Image Gallery’ and I’m not sure how to set it up properly.
I want to load of course smaller preview pictures for the thumbnails and if the user clicks, he should get the lightbox with the full size image. Usual behaviour.
But if i set the setting to 'Thumbnail (150x150) I only get also those 150x150 pixel image at the lightbox. With all other setting its the same behaviour. This setting affects the thumbnail and the full size image together.
Hi @AlexMastny - just set the image to full if you want the lightbox with the full size then in settings set the layout to grid and image ratio to square then set your desired column and link to lightbox, you should have thumbnail as your initial image and when a visitor click it, lightbox should have full image
I continued my research. There is a PlugIn out there which does that what a Gallery should do - load just the automatically created thumbnails: https://wp-modula.com/
But I can’t use it inside Bricks with a shortcode becaus the display of it gets corrupted (the close Button is missing in the Lightbox - with DIVI the same PlugIn works fine.
Oxygen also has the same problem with it’s gallery item. It loads the full size images for the Thumbnails.
Is there an instruction how a picture gallery works?
For the test, I inserted a picture gallery and activated the lightbox.
When I click on the picture, a magnifying glass with a plus sign appears, but nothing happens.
Did I forgot something?
Are there free or inexpensive Wordpress picture galleries that can be built into bricks or will several variations be offered in bricks in the near future? Since then I’ve worked with offline programs and there were a lot more simple ways to show your pictures.
The image gallery element should be pretty self-explanatory. Add your images, set the sizes, activate the lightbox, set the size as well, and it should work as expected, as here: https://vimeo.com/654095226/222b6e12d3
The magnifying glass and nothing happening sounds like a problem I had with Lightbox. Caused by having some JS optimisation in a cache/performance plugin.
Try disabling any caching/performance to see if it then works. ( Testing on Try Bricks and it works perfectly ).
The built in Image Gallery is somewhat limited. I use HappyFiles Pro which provides a shortcode or use the Bricks HappyFiles widget ( added with HappyFiles Pro 1.6 ) Still a little limited but does what I need perfectly. Otherwise you’d need to look at third Party Gallery plugins.
Thanks for the quick answers.
It may be that it doesn’t work because i’m still practicing and therefore working with localhost.
I will test HappyFiles.
Regards
Siegbert
