Showing Captions

crammy90 You may want to use caption.php template for thumbmails and “shutter” effect for the lightbox.

Hi Tizz,

I have never used nextgen again, so maybe I am doing it all wrong.

Basically, there are intakes (1,2,3,4) for the site I am doing, and each intake has different events in each. This would be the equivalent to if I was a photographer and the top level page shows weddings, portraits, experimental. When you click into wedding you can see “Jack and Jills Wedding”, “bob and Janes Wedding” and once you click into this you see that weddings photos.

What is the best way to go about doing this?

Currently I am creating the galleries and albums in the NextGen plugin, then creating a page for each under Pages and then using the kitchen sink icon to insert that album. It seems I cant choose the caption template for inserting albums.

Do I need to create a new page for each gallery and select imageBrowser to be able to use the caption template?

I tried [album id=3 template=caption] but that didnt work – it says it is not a valid template

@crammy90 In your example “Weddings” is an album, “Jack and Jills” is a sub-album (Menu: Manage Albums). Clicking on the latter open the gallery, i.e. all the thumbnails displayed in columns, then clicking on a thumbnail open a lightbox effect (if you choose one).
Albums don’t have caption, albums are compact and extend, the first has a title, the second has title and description.
Captions are for galleries (thumbnails) and images. For galleries, you can choose that template in general gallery settings > basic thumbnails > gallery-caption.php, or a page/post basis using the kitchen sink icon (ATP button), basic thumbnail > select a gallery > template > gallery-caption.php.
For the single images opened in lightbox instead you can choose shutter effect that display the text inserted in description field.

thank you so much!

I think the client is happy ??