Title: Lightbox on Slideshow Format
Last modified: November 28, 2018

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# Lightbox on Slideshow Format

 *  Resolved [VFHwebdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vfhwebdev/)
 * (@vfhwebdev)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lightbox-on-slideshow-format/)
 * Just wanted to add a vote for having the option of applying a lightbox to the
   slideshow format in Photonic.
 * I saw this discussed here: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-come-no-lightbox-on-slideshow/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-come-no-lightbox-on-slideshow/)
 * There are a few reasons this would be useful to me that aren’t mentioned in the
   above post.
 * 1 – The slideshow format doesn’t look great on phones in portrait mode. Especially
   for images with long captions. The lightbox is almost always much more useable/
   readable in that situation.
 * 2 – My theme has a sidebar, so even on a desktop, the slideshow images aren’t
   full width. So clicking them and opening in a lightbox would show a larger image.
 * 3 – In the slideshow, captions always obscure some part of the image. In the 
   lightbox they can be shown below or above the image, allowing the full image 
   to be viewed.
 * Anyway, file this under “feature requests.” It’s a very useful plugin and I greatly
   appreciate all the work that’s gone into it.

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 *  Thread Starter [VFHwebdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vfhwebdev/)
 * (@vfhwebdev)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lightbox-on-slideshow-format/#post-10926458)
 * Here’s a sample of how I use the slideshow if that’s helpful. [https://www.virginiafolklife.org/2018/11/exploring-indigenous-foodways/](https://www.virginiafolklife.org/2018/11/exploring-indigenous-foodways/)
 *  Plugin Author [Sayontan Sinha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sayontan/)
 * (@sayontan)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lightbox-on-slideshow-format/#post-10926475)
 * For point #3 you can use `title_position='tooltip'`. That will ensure that the
   title doesn’t obscure the image.
 * The list of values possible for `title_position` is listed under _Photonic → 
   Getting Started → The Secret Menu_. I will add the option in the interactive 
   workflow to set this attribute.
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by [Sayontan Sinha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sayontan/).
      Reason: Incomplete
 *  Thread Starter [VFHwebdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vfhwebdev/)
 * (@vfhwebdev)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lightbox-on-slideshow-format/#post-10926607)
 * Thanks for the quick reply. Using the tooltip isn’t a great option.
 * Users can’t see the caption unless they hover over the image. So they’ll only
   discover the tooltip by accident.
 * On mobile you have to tap the image to see the tooltip, so same thing. That’ll
   only happen by accident.
 * I guess even with the lightbox applied, on mobile you’d have to tap the photo
   to open the lightbox, but I feel like that’s a more common expectation, tapping
   to open a full screen view of an obscured image than tapping to read a caption
   you didn’t know was there until after you tapped.
 * Anyway, like I said, just file it as another vote for that feature request. Thanks
   for a great plugin!

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lightbox-on-slideshow-format/#post-10926607)
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