Quetion on Thumbnails

Yes – go to Photonic → Settings → Generic Options → Overlaid Popup Panel → Enable Interim Popup for Album Thumbnails, and check the option. Note that this will not let you show photos in any of the tiled layouts (justified / masonry / mosaic), but will show square thumbnails.

Thanks for the quick reply. I am trying to get it to be similar to this:

https://stjamesschoolah.org/student-life/photo-library/?pg=1

but instead, this is how it’s behaving: https://www.stjamestheatre.org/photos/

Also, it seems to be truncating the # of photos.

You cannot get option #1 – Photonic is designed to keep you on the same page, and not take you to a different page for your content.

You can increase the number of photos shown in a popup to 500 by setting per_page='500'.

So as I see it there is not way for someone to look at (skim) all the photos (thumbnails) in a single album. Is this something you would consider implementing?

Not the way you are asking, but there are ways to display all thumbnails for a single album. See the documentation. If you set per_page=500 there, and set more='Show More', it will show you a button to fetch the additional photos if you have more than 500 photos in the album.

What you have are two scenarios that Photonic can handle individually, but not the combination the way you are asking:

1. It can display all your albums as thumbnails, and you can click on the album thumbnails to see individual photos, however you cannot get more than 500 photos this way in your overlaid popup (and the “Show More” capability is not available on the overlaid popup) – it is possible to get the entire volume with Picasa, or SmugMug in one shot, but Flickr doesn’t let you fetch more than 500 in one shot.
2. It can display all the thumbnails in an album individually (via the “Show More” feature if there are count limitations), but it can do so only if you are displaying photos for an album directly on your page (not in an overlaid popup)