[Plugin: Easy FancyBox] Fancybox with NextGen slideshow

  • Resolved FrogM

    (@frogm)


    12 years, 11 months ago

    Hello,
    I’m trying to use fancybox to present a NextGen slideshow using the pan and zoom option.

    I have uploaded the plugins through wordpress manual install. I have copied the code from fancybox into the effects and I think i have checked all the issues that prevent it from working in the FAQ’s. I can make it work with a single image uploaded through wordress but i can’t make it work with the slide show. Do I need to add some code somewhere? The site is it’s still under construction.

    I would also like a set up whereby I have a small static image that, when clicked, produces a large version of the slideshow, with the fancybox overlay. I’d like to know if this is possible and ideally some pointers how to do it. As an i.e. this site uses it in the way i’d like to for their basic examples.

    If anyone can help i’d be eternally grateful – think i’ve spent about three days on this now and i don’t appear to be any further forward!!!

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

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  • Thread Starter FrogM

    (@frogm)

    sorry – never seem to get the form quite right when i post on this forum, and now can’t seem to edit it either (think i might go and decorate the Christmas tree in a minute!). The links that I failed to include in an intuitive way above are; site that has the i.e. of what i would like to do is https://www.slideshowpro.net; site that i’m building is; https://c0268214.myzen.co.uk/slideshow_countryhouse/

    Hey, this is an interesting experiment.

    I do not have much experience with NextGEN so there are only the basic solutions posted in the Easy FancyBox FAQ’s handling simple image galleries, not the integration of JW Player as you seem to be trying on https://c0268214.myzen.co.uk/slideshow_countryhouse/. But I think it might be possible…

    Can you tell me what (short)code you use to get this slideshow playing on your page?

    Thread Starter FrogM

    (@frogm)

    Hi – thank you so much for your help – the code is [slideshow id=3]

    OK then. Could you please try the following method. The idea is to use FancyBox in inline-content mode, displaying a hidden slideshow…

    Editing your page/post in the HTML tab (as opposed to the View tab) insert the code:

    <a href="#mySlideShow-1" class="fancybox">link text to open slideshow (can also be a thumbnail image)</a>
<div class="fancybox-hidden">
<div id="mySlideShow-1" width="600" height="400">[slideshow id=3]</div>
</div>

    Make the width and height match those of the slideshow settings in NextGEN. If you want to display more than one slideshow per page, make sure you use a different ID for each (just change the number at the end) and addapt the link href (prepended with #) accordingly.

    Let me know if this works or not ??

    Thread Starter FrogM

    (@frogm)

    Awesome – you’re a genius! I just need to fiddle around a bit now with the image size etc to make it look a bit cleaner (don’t think the images were spot on 400 by 600).

    Thank you so much for your help! Not sure if you’ll be adding this to the FAQ’s but could send you the link when i’ve finished it if you wanted an example to put on.

    Will def be donating to the plugin – big thank thank you, I wouldn’t have figured this out by myself (on the upside my Christmas tree looks fab! :-))!

    Hey, glad it worked. I’ll probably add it to the FAQs.

    Enjoy your Christmas with tree! ??

    It works! But is there a way to modify the nextgen templates so that the default “show as slideshow” link above the gallery links to fancybox? Also, how to keep description attributes for the slideshow?

    beezwings, for help on editing NextGEN files, you will have to ask on the NextGEN forum.

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