Lightbox on Slideshow Format

  • Resolved VFHwebdev

    (@vfhwebdev)


    7 years, 5 months ago

    Just wanted to add a vote for having the option of applying a lightbox to the slideshow format in Photonic.

    I saw this discussed here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-come-no-lightbox-on-slideshow/

    There are a few reasons this would be useful to me that aren’t mentioned in the above post.

    1 – The slideshow format doesn’t look great on phones in portrait mode. Especially for images with long captions. The lightbox is almost always much more useable/readable in that situation.

    2 – My theme has a sidebar, so even on a desktop, the slideshow images aren’t full width. So clicking them and opening in a lightbox would show a larger image.

    3 – In the slideshow, captions always obscure some part of the image. In the lightbox they can be shown below or above the image, allowing the full image to be viewed.

    Anyway, file this under “feature requests.” It’s a very useful plugin and I greatly appreciate all the work that’s gone into it.

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  • Thread Starter VFHwebdev

    (@vfhwebdev)

    7 years, 5 months ago

    Here’s a sample of how I use the slideshow if that’s helpful. https://www.virginiafolklife.org/2018/11/exploring-indigenous-foodways/

    Plugin Author Sayontan Sinha

    (@sayontan)

    7 years, 5 months ago

    For point #3 you can use title_position='tooltip'. That will ensure that the title doesn’t obscure the image.

    The list of values possible for title_position is listed under Photonic → Getting Started → The Secret Menu. I will add the option in the interactive workflow to set this attribute.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Sayontan Sinha. Reason: Incomplete
    Thread Starter VFHwebdev

    (@vfhwebdev)

    7 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks for the quick reply. Using the tooltip isn’t a great option.

    Users can’t see the caption unless they hover over the image. So they’ll only discover the tooltip by accident.

    On mobile you have to tap the image to see the tooltip, so same thing. That’ll only happen by accident.

    I guess even with the lightbox applied, on mobile you’d have to tap the photo to open the lightbox, but I feel like that’s a more common expectation, tapping to open a full screen view of an obscured image than tapping to read a caption you didn’t know was there until after you tapped.

    Anyway, like I said, just file it as another vote for that feature request. Thanks for a great plugin!

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