Can't get Lightbox to work

Hello,

Had similar issues with a couple themes, and now they’re working. Just added <?php wp_head(); ?> into header.php, before closing </head>.

Done. ??

Yep. That’s where I have it…

I wish I could figure out why nextgen gallery isn’t doing this feature on its own (anymore for us). I also can’t get just the slideshow to work. I just get the spinning ball forever. I was hoping with the update yesterday it would fix it, but I guess it addressed other things and other people aren’t having this problem that we are.

Hey everyone!

NextGEN Gallery requires a Lightbox plugin to be installed alongside it, this one we tested and confirmed works well with the plugin for the Lightbox Effect: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wp-jquery-lightbox/

The other effect options have worked automatically, and should still, but lightbox requires a bit more, and needs a lightbox specific plugin installed additionally.

Any changes/adjustments to the ‘new’ plugin on the settings page? With this new plugin and accepting the default configuration, I tried and am still not getting the lightbox effect.

photocrati: without a lightbox plugin, none of the effect options work for me–shutter & thickbox used to. And they still do on my testblog, on the same server as my blog. But they don’t on my main blog. I’m not sure why they used to and now don’t. When I was trouble shooting, I disabled all plugins except nextgen, and switched to one of the default themes, and it still didn’t work. When I look at my source code on a page, the javascript doesn’t show for the nextgen plugin, but the CSS does– the javascript does show on my testblog source code.

Oh, I found this link: https://thescube.com/blog/2009/07/20/nextgen-effect-error/

and pasted the code into my header, changing the info for my site. And, all of the apostrophes are curled, so those need to be changed to straight ones (‘).

Now the shutter effect works without the lightbox plugin (but not the thickbox).

EDIT: I just discovered this for some reason only works in Safari. and on a desktop computer. I tried firefox, chrome & opera, and it still opens the image in it’s own page. Safari on my iPad does the same thing.

I’ve done some experimenting, and all that I needed in my header to get the shutter effect working is this code:

<script type='text/javascript' src='https://www.MY-SITE.com/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/shutter/shutter-reloaded.js?ver=1.3.3'></script>

it works in the other browsers and on my ipad as well.

But I still can’t get the thickbox to work. I pasted in this to my header hoping it would also do the trick, but it didn’t:

<script type='text/javascript' src='https://www.MY-SITE.com/wp-includes/js/thickbox/thickbox.js'></script>

As it stands, I ended up changing plugins. Now using CataBlog.

Great instructions, Thanks!

Too bad there’s nothing there to download ??