[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery Optimizer] Issues with Image Description

Hi samaralife,

Thanks for using NextGEN Gallery Optimizer!

In regards to the long titles in Fancybox, this is because the default “float” title display is unable to accommodate line breaks. However, there are three other styles you can choose from that will. To switch styles, simply open nextgen-gallery-optimizer/nextgen-optimizer-scripts-and-styles.php and replace the “fancybox inline js” section at the top with the following…

/**********************************************************************
* fancybox inline js
**********************************************************************/

function nggo_fancybox_inline_js() { ?>
<!-- [nextgen gallery optimizer v<?php echo NGGO_VERSION; ?>] This page must contain a nextgen shortcode...else we wouldn't be serving its scripts and styles -->
<script type='text/javascript'>jQuery.noConflict(); jQuery(document).ready(function() { jQuery('a.myfancybox').fancybox({ 'zoomSpeedIn':500, 'zoomSpeedOut':500, 'overlayShow':true, 'overlayOpacity':0.3, 'titlePosition':'over'}); });</script>
<?php
}

In the above example, I’ve simply appended ‘titlePosition’:’over’ to instruct Fancybox to use an overlay for titles, but you can also set ‘titlePosition’:’inside’ or ‘titlePosition’:’outside’ for multi-line titles.

In regards to your second question, Fancybox uses NextGEN’s “Description” field at Gallery --> Manage Gallery --> gallery_name for your lightbox image titles. Looking at the source code from your second link, you only seem to have the “Alt/Title” field populated for each image. Type or copy/paste a description for each image, and they will display automatically in the lightbox.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Mark.

Hey samaralife,

Thanks for the update. I’ve just had another look through your source code, and I believe I know why your descriptions aren’t showing…

Your theme is actually loading another instance of Fancybox, including its stylesheet, js file and another invocation code tucked away in wp-content/themes/origin/js/footer-scripts.js.

This footer-scripts.js file is essentially overriding the settings for Optimizer’s Fancybox, and is setting titleShow: false…hiding your descriptions.

Ideally, if you want to continue using Optimizer’s Fancybox (and only load the necessary scripts and styles on pages with the [nggallery id=x] shortcode), it would be best to remove these sitewide Fancybox files from your theme. But for a quick fix, you could probably just remove or comment out the /* Fancybox */ block in your footer-scripts.js file.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Mark.

PS. The 'titlePosition':'outside' setting you’ve gone for will show your descriptions in white text, so you may want to darken the lightbox overlay (for higher contrast) by changing 'overlayOpacity':0.3 to a higher value (max is 1).

Hey Fritz,

You may want to check your currently active theme for a folder named “nggallery”. Any template files in that folder are designed to override the originals, and won’t be touched during a plugin upgrade.

If that folder isn’t present, you may also want to check that NextGEN’s HTML output hasn’t been hard-coded into your post/page via the editor or a page template.

Cheers,
Mark.

Hey Fritz,

How puzzling! 🙂

There could be a conflict somewhere, but it’s difficult to detect anything further from the front-end. If you’d like to email me a temporary administrator login for your site, I’d be happy to take a look for you.

It’s okay that the gallery.php file shows as inactive. That’s just because it’s not being loaded in the admin.

Cheers,
Mark.

PS. Thanks for the donation too…that’s much appreciated!