Title: Jetpack Carousel – back button issue
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Jetpack Carousel – back button issue

 *  [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eminemdrdre00/)
 * (@eminemdrdre00)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-carousel-back-button-issue/)
 * After a user views some photos in the Jetpack Carousel and closes out, the back
   button takes them back to all the photos they just viewed instead of the previous
   page.
 * So if I’m on the homepage, click on a gallery page and view 3 photos, I have 
   to click the browser’s back button about 5 times to get back to the homepage.
 * It sounds like a tricky problem to solve because of the permalinks it creates
   for each photo in the gallery (#jp-carousel-288, #jp-carousel-289, #jp-carousel-
   290, etc.). Is it something that could be fixed in a future update? I love the
   Jetpack Carousel but this creates a bad and confusing experience for the user.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Richard Archambault](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richardmtl/)
 * (@richardmtl)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-carousel-back-button-issue/#post-4172595)
 * Hi! As you pointed out, definitely a sticky problem. We’ve looked at doing it
   that way in the past, but some security measures in browsers would limit our 
   ability to make it happen: clearing history to remove the Carousel actions is
   unlikely to be allowed, for example.
 *  Thread Starter [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eminemdrdre00/)
 * (@eminemdrdre00)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-carousel-back-button-issue/#post-4172597)
 * Hey, thanks for the reply! How about an option to disable the permalink feature,
   for those who prefer to have the back button function as expected?
 *  Plugin Contributor [Richard Archambault](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richardmtl/)
 * (@richardmtl)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-carousel-back-button-issue/#post-4172600)
 * We try to keep Jetpack options to a minimum, so we likely won’t implement that
   kind of option. However, you could always suggest it in a Trac ticket here:
 * [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/newticket?component=jetpack](http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/newticket?component=jetpack)
 * and if you have a good use case, or a patch that could show us a non-intrusive
   way of handling it, then by all means, let us know.
 *  [Ian P](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ian-p/)
 * (@ian-p)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-carousel-back-button-issue/#post-4172661)
 * I have the same problem as chris – It would be great if when pressing the browser
   back button (once), the user goes to go back to the previous page rather than
   the previous gallery image they were looking at.
 * Has there been any developments on this issue or any workarounds?
 * Many thanks.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-carousel-back-button-issue/#post-4172662)
 * If you require assistance then, as per the [Forum Welcome](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post),
   please post your own topic instead of tagging onto someone else’s topic.
 * I am now closing this 9 month old topic as it references an older version of 
   WordPress.

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## Tags

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

 * 5 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-carousel-back-button-issue/#post-4172662)
 * Status: not resolved