UPDATED – Apr 29, 2014 – Open NextGEN gallery from link or single image

See my original post here:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/open-nextgen-gallery-from-link-or-single-image?replies=17

Maybe NG has implemented this directly in the past year or so from my first post, but I can’t find it. When I tried the above procedure with a new site installation, something didn’t work. The first (specified in the link) image opened but the gallery itself didn’t work – i.e. there were no “back / next” buttons, just the specified image. Clearly something has changed…

NEW PROCEDURE FOR LINKING A IMAGE (OR TEXT) TO A LIGHTBOX

Using the newest versions of WP and NG (as of 04-29-14) here are the modifications that worked for me…

1. Do everything the same EXCEPT the REL= is no longer important, but the CLASS= is now important
2. Remove this entirely: rel=(whatever)
3. Specify this: class="ngg_lightbox"

Note: I have my NGG style set to “Lightbox” so that’s the class called. If you have a different setting (i.e. “Thickbox”) I suppose you would need to call that in the CSS as well. (???)

As before, this worked for me – your mileage may vary. Shalom!