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  • 12 November 2013 at 19:31 #1331
    Dirk Offringa
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    Hi

    I would like to use Responsive lightbox, but don’t want my visitors to have a gallery displayed first. Is there any possibility to achieve that? I would like just to have a page with a featured image to click on, which will bring up the gallery just as it does when I use the rel=”lightbox” selector on a single post image, except that it should be linked to a gallery.

    Thanks
    Dirk

    13 November 2013 at 09:28 #1338
    Bartosz
    Keymaster

    WordPress galleries don’t work that. way, nor does Responsive Lightbox. It could be done but would require custom coding.

    13 November 2013 at 13:18 #1351
    Dirk Offringa
    Participant

    Hi

    I’m not afraid of digging into some code. Would you have a clue on where to start? That would save me some time….

    Most appreciated
    Dirk

    13 November 2013 at 17:21 #1362
    Bartosz
    Keymaster

    The main problem is that lightbox is applied to images that are available on the site. There are at least 2 possibilities I think.

    1) Very basic (don’t know if it’ll work) – to include images on your post/page but to hide them using CSS class. All those images must also have a rel parameter set to for e.g lightbox[gallery-1]. You must have 1 image visible to be able to open the gallery and leave other thumbnails hidden.

    2. Better, but more complex is to load a page that contains image gallery through Ajax request. You’d need 1 image to serve as a gallery featured image. This image would also have to trigger Ajax call to load other gallery images (or a page/post that contains a gallery of images).

    Those are just a quick ideas, never tested. Please show us an example if you succeed using those or other methods.

    Good luck

    13 November 2013 at 17:56 #1365
    Dirk Offringa
    Participant

    Hi

    Thanks. I, of course, had already thought about your 1st suggestion. It’s indeed the easiest one. I hadn’t thought about the 2nd one. I will investigate that as well. I’ll post about my findings!

    Cheers
    Dirk

    13 November 2013 at 18:04 #1366
    ntpd
    Participant

    Would be great if you could share your solution Dirk. It seems like I’m after the same thing like you :)

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