Image viewing issue

  • jreister

    (@jreister)


    6 years ago

    Hey people, I have a problem with images on my articles.

    For example, on this article https://oanceacezar.com/2018/04/12/review-apple-macbook-air-2017-mqd32ze-a/ I have two images shown as thumbnails. The problem is that whenever someone clicks the images, they are redirected to a page like this one: http://prntscr.com/j6y8i9

    Instead, I’d like it to be shown as a image carousel, something that pops up and the user can navigate between images. I had that before and I have no idea what caused my theme to act like this. It was a carousel with arrows on the left and right side and it also had some information regarding the device that the photo has been taken with (in my case it shown they were taken at a certain focal distance using a iPhone).

    Any ideas on how to solve this?

    Regards,
    jreister

    EDIT: This is what I’m talking about: http://prntscr.com/j6ycu3
    And actually the issue seems to only appear if the user clicks a thumbnail from the main page. If the user actually clicks the image while in the articles page, the carousel shows up. If he just navigates on the main page and clicks a image, he then gets redirected to that link.
    How do I solve this?
    Thank you.

    • This topic was modified 6 years ago by jreister.

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    6 years ago

    Sorry for the slow reply. Basically, your archive pages are not setup to do carousels. Only the single pages are so setup. Launching carousels from archive pages may not be the best plan. All the images in the carousel are actually part of page content, but are hidden until the carousel script calls for them. If each article’s carousel has an average of 20 images and you have 15 articles listed on an archive page, that page would need to load 300 images in order to be able to launch any carousel directly from archive page thumbs. Generally speaking anyway. Your carousel script might fetch images via Ajax as needed, IDK.

    Most users who click on thumbs on an archive page expect to be taken to the article, not to be immediately shown a carousel. It’s not a bad thing to conform to user expectations.

    But if you must, the archive output needs to be altered to generate the HTML required by the carousel script. Plus be sure the carousel script is actually loaded on archive pages.

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