Prevent Images With Custom URL From Opening In Lightbox?

Hello

Is it possible to see sample page(s) with the links which you want to open into the lightbox and the links which should be ignored?

Hi @arisoft, thanks for the quick reply. The problem site is a production site, and it would cause a problem with its functioning if I were to set it up so you can see the issue. Instead, I’ll set up a demo of the problem on a test site and give you a link. I’ll post back here with the link when I have it set up.

This is classic. I set up a demo on a test site, and it worked perfectly; i.e., with “convert links to images” checked, images with the “link to” set to “media file” opened in a lightbox, images with a custom URL opened the page–not in a lightbox–and gallery images opened in a lightbox. All just as it should. I used the same theme as the problem site, but not all the same plugins. It must be a plugin conflict, and not your plugin at all! When I get the chance, I’ll add each plugin to the test site that the production site has and see if I can identify the plugin that’s causing the issue. If I can I’ll post the information here.

If you reproduce the problem on demo site, let us know and we will help to investigate the problem.

@arisoft – I found the culprit, and it wasn’t a plugin conflict after all. The problem on the production site was caused by captions that contain hyperlinks to the same page that the images link to. I am able to reproduce the problem by adding an image with a custom URL to another page on the site, and adding a caption that contains a hyperlink to the same page. If that’s done, clicking the image opens the page in a lightbox. Clicking the link in the caption takes you to the page as it should.

I set up a demo page to show you what I mean. If you click on the violet “Linked Image with Caption” in #3, you get the page it links to in a lightbox instead of it opening the page in the browser as it does if there is no hyperlink in the caption. If you click the link in the caption, it goes to the page as it should.

@arisoft – I didn’t mark this as resolved. I was hoping you would want to modify the plugin so it would ignore images with custom URLs that contain hyperlinks in captions. It seems like this is a bug?

We will fix this in the next version. Try to release it within a week.

@arisoft – Awesome! Thank you.

Sorry for the delay. The problem was fixed in v. 1.3.5.

No problem with the delay. I greatly appreciate your attempt to fix it. It doesn’t seem to be fixed for me, however.

I updated the plugin to v. 1.3.5, cleared the cache on the server as well as my browser. If I try clicking on the image in #3 on my Sample Page, I still get the target page in a lightbox instead of the browser navigating to that page, when the image is linked to the same page the caption is (which works).

When we click by “Link to Test Gallery Page” link, it opens into a browser, not in the lightbox. Try to test it in browser’s incognito mode to avoid problem with cache.

Yes, the link “Link to Test Gallery Page” works, but the image labeled “Linked Image with Caption” is linked to the same page, and should take you to the page rather than opening the page in a lightbox. Please try clicking on the “Linked Image with Caption” image itself and see what happens.

Open “Advanced” tab on “ARI Fancy Lightbox -> Settings” page and populate “Custom JS code” with the following code:

$('.wp-caption').each(function() { var $this = $(this);$this.find('a').not($this.find('.wp-caption-text A')).each(function() { var $a = $(this);if (!ARI_FANCYBOX_HELPER.isImageLink($a.attr('href'))) $a.addClass('no-lightbox'); }); });

That works!

Are you going to incorporate that in the JS for the next version?

We will think about implementation it as an extra option in a future version of the plugin.