Title: NextGen Basic Thumbnails and link to Basic Image Browser
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# NextGen Basic Thumbnails and link to Basic Image Browser

 *  Resolved [Blindenschule](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blindenschule/)
 * (@blindenschule)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-basic-thumbnails-and-link-to-basic-image-browser/)
 * – WordPress 3.6
    – NextGEN 2.0.17 – Custom theme running
 * When i use a tag to activate the Basic Thumbnails with the gallery-caption.php
   the thumbnails are displayed correct. When i click a thumbnail the configured
   lightbox effect opens.
 * [ngg_images gallery_ids=”21″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails”]
 * With the older versions of NextgenGallery we could choose no lightbox effect 
   and chooste that the the Basic Image Browser was displayed. We miss this behaviour,
   because this was an accessible solution for blind and disabled people.
 * Could you please tell us how we can configure this behaviour or make a option
   where we can configure this in a future release?
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/)

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 *  [J](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeroen1973/)
 * (@jeroen1973)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-basic-thumbnails-and-link-to-basic-image-browser/#post-4088703)
 * See this thread for an answer: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/ng-200-imagebrowser-instead-the-effect](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/ng-200-imagebrowser-instead-the-effect)
 *  [Matys1001](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matys1001/)
 * (@matys1001)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-basic-thumbnails-and-link-to-basic-image-browser/#post-4089001)
 * hello,
 * The easiest way or the fastest, at least I guess is to edit shutter effect. In
   shutter-reloaded.js file you have these
 *     ```
       if ( ! (S = t.I('shShutter')) ) {
       			S = document.createElement('div');
       			S.setAttribute('id','shShutter');
       				document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(S)
       			t.hideTags();
       		}
   
       		if ( ! (D = t.I('shDisplay')) ) {
       			D = document.createElement('div');
       			D.setAttribute('id','shDisplay');
       			D.style.top = t.Top + 'px';
       			document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(D);
       		}
       ```
   
 * If you create a div in you template file, for example `image_wrapper` you can
   easly edit this line `document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(D);`
   with
 * `document.getElementById('image_wrapper').appendChild(D);`
 * and this `document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(S);`
    with `document.
   getElementById('image_wrapper').appendChild(s);`
 * however now it will open the lightbox effect after you click on thumbnail. So
   we need to load first image as page is loaded. So the fastest way just add this
   od document ready `
    $(‘#ngg-image-1 a’).trigger(‘click’); `
 *  Plugin Contributor [photocrati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photocrati/)
 * (@photocrati)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-basic-thumbnails-and-link-to-basic-image-browser/#post-4089002)
 * [@matys1001](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matys1001/) – Thanks for this
   suggestion … but as this is referring to NextGEN Gallery at roughly the time 
   the branch changed to 2.0.x are you seeing this working as expected with the 
   current release (version 2.0.65)?
 * – Cais.
 *  [Matys1001](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matys1001/)
 * (@matys1001)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-basic-thumbnails-and-link-to-basic-image-browser/#post-4089003)
 * @photocarti – your welcome – you know I did it the same day I posted the answer
   😉 So I guess it works, you also need to change css a bit to make it works.
 * PS. To make it more usefull you can change the last code `$('#ngg-image-1 a').
   trigger('click');` for the first element, so u dont need to get the specific 
   ID .
 * `$('.ngg-gallery-thumbnail:first a').trigger('click');` – so its gonna be very
   first element each time 😉
 *  Plugin Contributor [photocrati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photocrati/)
 * (@photocrati)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-basic-thumbnails-and-link-to-basic-image-browser/#post-4089004)
 * [@matys1001](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matys1001/) – Thanks for the
   follow-up … and confirmation!
 * – Cais.
 *  [Matys1001](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matys1001/)
 * (@matys1001)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-basic-thumbnails-and-link-to-basic-image-browser/#post-4089005)
 * Have a nice day 😉

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