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1. tjsherrill
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I am placing an album into a template file using the do_shortcode tag provided by wordpress.

   I want to list the galleries in that album, using just the preview image, and if clicked I want that preview image to open the gallery in a lightbox.

   Next I want to display another album and display a list of its related galleries just using the gallery title and description, when clicked they open in a lightbox. I want to keep the user on the page, and use lightboxes to display the galleries.

   Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have played with the shortcode feature but can't get these two items to work. I assume I will have to custom code some of this, just not sure where to start.

2. rjmcdonald
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I am trying to do the same thing. I found some code for querying the database for all the galleries from nextgen but it feels a bit hack-y.

   <ul>
   <?php
   	$galleries = array();
   	$query = "SELECT * FROM wp_ngg_gallery WHERE gid";
           $result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
   while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
   	$galleries[] = $row['title'];
   }
   ?>
   <?php
   	$i = 1;
   	foreach ($galleries as &$value) {
   		echo '<li><a href="/?page_id=226&album=1&gallery='.$i.'">'.$value.'</a></li>';
   		$i++;
   	}
   ?>
   </ul>

   Make sure the page you are linking to (in this example page with id 226, but yours will be different) has shortcode for an album ( [ album id=1 template=compact ] ) otherwise it will not display the album.

   If anyone else has a more elegant solution inside nextgen to display a list of all the galleries, let me know!

3. tjsherrill
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks for the reply RJM. Does anyone know how to list galleries in an album and have a lightbox open when the thumbnail is clicked?

   I can edit the template file just fine but I can't get it to open in a lightbox.

   thoughts?

4. tjsherrill
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Ok so I have the album listing and it will open in a lightboc (colorbox) right now but I a using the $gallery->page_link so its openning the whole new page in the lightbox...

   any ideas on how to simply open the images from the gallery into the lightbox?

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