Title: Help with basic gallery setup
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Help with basic gallery setup

 *  [themonk27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themonk27/)
 * (@themonk27)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-basic-gallery-setup/)
 * Hey,
 * I am a newbie on WP. I need to implement a gallery for my website and its pretty
   urgent. So I would really appreciate all the help I can get.
 * I am using the nggallery and I have a page with thumbnails as shows on –
    [nggallery website](http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/nextgen-gallery-features/#gallery)
 * 1. As shown, on clicking the thumbnails, I would like them to open in a full 
   screen black window with the loading icon and carousel as happens in the above
   link, rather than the default lightbox of nggallery, which has no carousel and
   its shape keeps changing per the image size
 * 2. I also need the comments option that you get on every image on the bottom 
   left after opening it, and on clicking, the comments open up to the right of 
   the image.
 * Can somebody please help me out with this? I would really appreciate any help.
 * Thanks!
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/)

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 *  [mweichert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mweichert/)
 * (@mweichert)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-basic-gallery-setup/#post-3979976)
 * Hi there!
 * That lightbox is actually the Pro Lightbox from NextGEN Pro:
 * nextgen-gallery.com/nextgen-pro
 * Cheers,
    Mike
 *  Thread Starter [themonk27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themonk27/)
 * (@themonk27)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-basic-gallery-setup/#post-3980015)
 * Thanks for your reply Mike!
 * My website is not that important yet to buy a $39 licence. Are there any free
   substitutes to better lightboxes or adding comments to the images?
 * Appreciate your help.
 * Thanks!
    Sid

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 * Last reply from: [themonk27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themonk27/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-basic-gallery-setup/#post-3980015)
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