• I have desperately been trying to create a similar gallery to this one: http://cleverlovephotography.com/?cat=5, in essence, a gallery of thumbnails that lead to continuing galleries from the specific thumbnail in a popup.

    …I’ve been playing with multiple plugins and scripts, and so far everything seems a little off or incredibly over my head. What is the BEST solution to creating a gallery like this, just so I know which path to take and stick-with until I get it figured out? (instead of switching back and forth between various plugins)

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  • well she is using fancy box to show the galleries.

    As far as her theme, This line tells me
    <link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="http://cleverlovephotography.com/wp-content/themes/organic_portfolio_white/images/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

    That the them name is Organic portofolio. Then if you read the credits under here site, you’ll see a link to these guys.

    http://www.organicthemes.com/themes/portfolio-theme/

    Then that page tells me that you can buy that theme for $69 USD.

    How’s that for a midnight research? It’ll be 50 dollars.

    Learn how to use your browser’s developer tools to see the source code. It will save you time and precious hair.

    Chris

    Thread Starter strawberrykoi

    (@strawberrykoi)

    Um… I already know what theme she has and that she uses some sort of fancy box. I found her site through the showcase of the theme I already bought.

    Now, I don’t WHICH fancybox she uses, because there’s a ton of plugins for fancy box… or if I understand, you could download fancybox and make a external JS file manually. I am trying to learn which plugin *I* should use, or if I should use one at all, to obtain a fancy box that leads to complete galleries in the iframe such as her gallery. Any ideas?

    ANY image gallery that pops out the image like that will do. There are hundreds. Lightbox Gallery for example. you create a gallery in a page or post that you are not publishing. Then insert the shortcode with the gallery ID in your fancy box as the path. You could open a whole webpage in there for that matter.

    And yes, you could write your own code but that’s what a plugin “is”; a code that some already written so you don’t have to. But i’m taking a wild guess that writing your own code or paying someone to write is not what you are willing to do.

    Thread Starter strawberrykoi

    (@strawberrykoi)

    Ok… may I ask that you elaborate on how to insert a shortcut (with the gallery ID) into the fancybox? Right now, whenever I try to have a SINGLE gallery open through the fancybox, everything I try seems like it’s not quite the right direction. Maybe this will help.

    Well first of all here, here’s the plugin she is using down to the same version 1.3.4

    For example The lightbox gallery will give you a shorcode that will look like this : [blahblhab blah blah] that’s your code.

    Then your fancy box will insert a code into your page that will sorta look like this:

    [thkBC height=”600″ width=”1100″ anchortext='<img class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-571″ style=”border: 1px solid white;” src=”http://dreamdare.org/wp-content/uploads/king.jpg&#8221; alt=”” width=”220″ height=”140″ />’ title=”King Of The Road” url=”http://dreamdare.org/roadking/&#8221; type=”iframe”]

    Note that this is from a different plugin called Thickbox but it essentialy does the same thing.

    Your shortcode or the path to that gallery goes where it says url=http://dreamdare…….blah blah and the path to your source picture is of course the line that says <img class= blah blah

    I hope i’m making some sense here.

    Of course you don’t have to use a plugin to make your galleries. If i was you, i would make the gallery in Flash and i would point the url to the flash file. Much nicer, much smaller and easier to load.

    It’s not a slideshow but you can see the effect here.

    Click on any of website pictures and you’ll see what i mean. What you see is a whole complete website posted in an iframe with lightbox effect. I don’t have any picture galley otherwise i would post one for you to see.

    Cheers,

    Chris

    Sorry i forgot to post the download link to the plugin Here.

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