Title: Gallery Issues – No Controls
Last modified: February 16, 2019

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# Gallery Issues – No Controls

 *  [jernatety1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jernatety1/)
 * (@jernatety1)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-issues-no-controls/)
 * I am using a custom theme, (Rara) I purchased but that’s not the problem, I checked
   with their support and they’ve confirmed. I’ve also tried Twenty Nineteen and
   Twenty 13 with the same result. I have only 1 category option, (Random order 
   with columns). There are no controls to advance or go back when I click on an
   image.
 * On other sites I used to manage I had several different gallery default gallery
   options without using a plugin.
 * Any help is greatly appreciated.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fgallery-issues-no-controls%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Liew Cheon-Fong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lcf/)
 * (@lcf)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-issues-no-controls/#post-11213255)
 * you mean lightbox effect? you can try other WordPress gallery plugin [https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/gallery/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/gallery/)
 * if you use Jetpack, you can enable the Carousel [https://jetpack.com/support/carousel/](https://jetpack.com/support/carousel/)
 *  Thread Starter [jernatety1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jernatety1/)
 * (@jernatety1)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-issues-no-controls/#post-11213402)
 * Hi [@lcf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lcf/) thank you for responding.
   I remember in older versions of WordPress sites I had, there were several different
   options for the default gallery.
 * More importantly, if you click on my link to my gallery you’ll see after clicking
   an image there are no advance > or last image < buttons to move through the images.
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by [jernatety1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jernatety1/).
 *  [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-issues-no-controls/#post-11213793)
 * For the core gallery, you can choose to link the thumbnails to either the file
   or to the attachment page. Yours is linking to the file, so of course there is
   nothing else but the file when you click on it. It does have ‘data-fancybox’ 
   attribute, so perhaps you have a fancybox plugin to show the file in a modal 
   instead of on a page by itself. That plugin would be what supplies the links 
   to next/previous image.

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 * [gallery](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/gallery/)

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 * Last reply from: [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-issues-no-controls/#post-11213793)
 * Status: not resolved

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