Like in NextGEN legacy (ie. versions up to 1.9.13) there have been only two lightbox effects that work out-of-the-box with NextCellent.
These two are “thickbox” and “shutter”, so try if these are enough for you.
If you want to have more and different lightbox effects, set “Effects” to none and use an external lightbox plugin. When you have set lightbox effects to none in Nextcellent, all images should follow the external (compatible) lightbox plugin settings.
I currently use “Lightbox Plus ColorBox” which has several templates to choose from for the display, and with some CSS knowledge you can easily build your own lightbox.
Thanks vesa, tryed your trick with simple lightbox before writting my OP and it did not work.
Will try colorbox to see if it makes a difference?
But still, why is there a dropdow menu with lighthox option? Why the lightbox code and placeholder and how should it be used?
The drop-down menu with a lightbox option is to enable certain lightbox effects. The only ones that really work out-of-the-box with NextCellent are “Shutter” and “Thickbox”. Both of these are actually “lightbox effects”, just having different display layouts. I would encourage first to try these to guarantee you do not have any conflicts with other plugins or WordPress setup.
The other options, like “lightbox” in the drop down menu will work, but you need to provide the appropriate code yourself. This requires much more knowledge with javascript and css than using an external plugin instead. Have a look at ../wp-content/plugins/nextcellent-gallery-nextgen-legacy/shutter folder for the code used for “shutter” efect to check if you really would like to do that. Changing only the css file you may have a different layout for NextCellent Gallery’s “shutter” display 🙂
When you use an external lightbox plugin (which should support NGG / NextCellent!), you need to select “none” from the effects drop-down menu and then activate your lightbox plugin. Most NGG-supporting lightbox plugins have options to show a lightbox for page/post images and galleries so you need also to have make sure you also have set these right.
Hope this helps going forward.
Thanks again for your answer Vesa!
/wp-content/plugins/nextcellent-gallery-nextgen-legacy/shutter folder for the code used for “shutter”
Well css is ok but js, I am lost.
I tried litghbox plus color and it seems to work fine! I’ll stick to that but must admit I would prefer all-in-one solution like in Nextgen. Is there a reason why it is only shutter and thickbox code that are automatically added?
Thanks
