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1. bwboykin
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   does anyone know of a good plugin that will enable me to activate a lightbox style gallery via a text link. my client does not want to have any thumbnails on the page so I am looking for a way to do this.

   thank you

   Ben

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Most lightbox plugins/scripts will work on text links as well as images. I know Shadowbox does.

3. bwboykin
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   I've never seen an example like what I'm referring to where there are multiple images to be shown but do not appear on the page as they are getting pulled from the server and there isn't a rel tag associated with them in order to call them.

   If you know/see an example I'd be interested to see how it is done.

   Thank you Esmi

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 4 months ago #

   You're not going to be able to launch any lightbox without something like a rel on the link.

5. bwboykin
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Yeah...I know they typically are activated using something that. Just have to figure a way to be able to call all images within a specific folder and have them display like that. I'm not that proficient of a coder to do that.

   I had thought about placing the image code on the page in a div with visibility hidden to see if that would work. I don't think it will...open to ideas...

6. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 4 months ago #

   I got the wrong lightbox script. It's Fancybox that allows you to trigger the modal window on a link.

7. bwboykin
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Esmi,

   Thanks for the response. I located the 'manual call' at the bottom of the page but could not find out how those images were being pulled via flickr.

   Any further help is appreciated!

   Thanks

8. bwboykin
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Was able to get this working. First tried with the WP Fancybox Plugin to no avail and then integrated via uploading the necessary scripts, etc., and so far so good. For those wondering where the script is that is calling in those images they are found in a relatively small js file located in the head section.

   Also used the WP Art Direction plugin to implement so as to not run this site wide when its only needed on just one page.

   Thank you again Esmi for your assistance and the heads up on using Fancybox.

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