Add captions when using highslide?

  • Resolved jamminjames

    (@jamminjames)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    How can I add the ability to show captions on individual images when using the Highslide effect in NextCellent?

    Hopefully there’s a line or two I could add in the Effects tab, Link Code line. The default entry there is:

    class="highslide" onclick="return hs.expand(this, { slideshowGroup: %GALLERY_NAME% })";

    I read somewhere that adding these lines can help, but it didn’t work:

    hs.captionEval = "this.thumb.title";
hs.show_caption="y";

    Anyone know how to do this? Thanks for any help.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/nextcellent-gallery-nextgen-legacy/

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  • niknetniko

    (@niknetniko)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    Have you tried following this guide: http://web.archive.org/web/20080714075639/http://travel-junkie.com/geeky-stuff/highslide-and-nextgen-gallery/ ?

    Some files might have changed, so if you need assistance, let me know.

    Thread Starter jamminjames

    (@jamminjames)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    They refer to a ‘highslide folder’ as if there is one already, but there isn’t, neither in the new NGG or NextCellent.

    …name the file highslide.css, put following code into it, fill in the WP plugin path and save it into the ‘highslide’-folder…

    Since both gallery plugins are already set up with Highslide, isn’t there a simpler way to do this? Like adding the proper code to the Effects tab in NextCellent, as I asked above?

    niknetniko

    (@niknetniko)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    NextCellent doesn’t actually include Highslide. It has support for it, but you need another plugin with Highslide to make use of this functionality.

    Thread Starter jamminjames

    (@jamminjames)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    Why does it have that option then? And what is it using? It definitely looks like Highslide, or some kind of lightbox.

    Okay, I checked the page source, and it looks like it’s using lightbox. (That’s weird, you’d think Highslide shouldn’t even be an option if it’s not actually available. And Nextcellent gives no hint that it has to be installed.) That’s fine, so how do I get a caption added to lightbox?

    Thread Starter jamminjames

    (@jamminjames)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    OOPS, never mind! I forgot I had the wp-jquery-lightbox plugin installed, for swipeable images in mobile devices. That’s what I’m seeing. My bad!

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