[Plugin: Easy FancyBox] Hopelessly lost trying to get Easy Fancybox to work…

  • Hi there,
    I’m a WordPress newbie and am trying to get Easy Fancybox to work.

    I’m helping an old friend build his photography website and he wants to display as many images as possible on each page.

    I installed the plugin but am completely lost as to what to do next.

    Let me tell you what I did so far:
    I created some thumbnails and linked loaded them into the gallery which shows up on the page when I ‘preview’ the page. But when I click on one of the images it opens up the image with all the data for the photograph.

    I think I’ve really messed this up.

    Please help.

    The page I’ve worked on is https://www.photographersjohannesburg.co.za/food/
    Using iThemes Builder with the Kepler child theme.

    Where is the best place to position the gallery on the page?

    Can you provide a link to an exact step by step guide for newbies?

    Regards

    Greg

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/easy-fancybox/

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  • Thread Starter Launchpad135

    (@launchpad135)

    Sorry forgot to mention that I set up Easy Rotator slide show in the top horizontal widget space. Hope that doesn’t conflict with Easy Fancybox?

    First thing you need to do is use [gallery link="file"] for inserting your gallery. Otherwise, the links will point to another WP generated page and FancyBox can do nothing with that.

    Always make sure (inserting galleries or individual photos) you link to the image File, not to an Attachment Page.

    Thread Starter Launchpad135

    (@launchpad135)

    Hi Ravan,

    Thanks for getting back to me….

    I’m not sure what you mean by First thing you need to do is use [gallery link="file"] for inserting your gallery.

    I’ve been playing around and what I did was Upload the images and then linked to the Image File like you said….and it seems to work.

    Just another question:
    Because it is a Photography website, he has pictures that are portrait and others that are landscape orientated. Is it possible to mix them in the same gallery?

    How do you adjust the settings to handle these different sized pictures?

    Regards
    Greg

    Thread Starter Launchpad135

    (@launchpad135)

    Hey Ravan,

    Another question:

    Is it possible to make the Gallery to appear vertically within a page?

    In other words, all the text will be arranged say on the left hand side of the page and the gallery will be on the right…

    Regards
    Greg

    Hi Greg, FancyBox adjusts itself automatically to the image size each time a new image is loaded. Landscape or portrait, it does not matter.

    About the positioning of WP thumbnail galleries: this is not handled by my plugin. It’s a WordPress thing which can be controlled by reducing the number of columns (you can see that option when inserting a gallery into a post) and then adding CSS rules to your stylesheet that will make the block of thumbnails to the right.

    Something like:

    gallery-columns-1, gallery-columns-2 {
float:right;
}

    I am using EasyRotator and want to include both portrait and landscape images, so that they are all the same height. However EasyRotator seems to make them all the same width (i.e., of the portrait images), so that the landscapes are smaller.

    see – ‘https://www.sarahkeenanjones.com/experimental3/’ (click on the left arrow to see the landscape image)

    This is the code I am using [easyrotator]erc_69_1344163972[/easyrotator]

    This is for elastic dimensions and ‘scaling up and down’. I have tried all combinations.

    I could rotate the images, but some of landscapes would look a bit silly! I could crop the landscapes but would much prefer to mix them.

    Any ideas, e.g. to change the code, but how and where?

    cammies, this forum is for Easy FancyBox, not Easy Rotator.

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