scottmcg

Thank you!

And the thing that will mostly quickly highlight the flaws of ones solution is, again, posting it to a forum. While the method described above does work, it seems that having a href link in the description field of picture in a gallery breaks the title display (at least on a singlepic item) where it exposes the effect code as displayed text on the page.

For example, instead of rendering the title as

Picture Title

, it is rendered as:

Picture Title” rel=”lightbox[singlepic14]” >

Is this something that’s an issue with the Nextgen Gallery, or should I be escaping the link in some fashion?

Few things provide inspiration as promptly as posting a question on a forum. Or perhaps it was eating dinner. At any rate, I realized that I could embed a link to a standalone post (one with a singlepic for the relevant image) into the description text for the image in a gallery, and then add a custom field of “ngg_gal_ShowDescription” to the gallery page, with a value of “desc”. This would allow someone who was browsing through the gallery to travel directly to a picture specific post.

This basically accomplishes what I want, although it’s a bit of a stylistic kludge, so if anybody has any other ideas, I’m still eager to hear them!