unabashedgeek

Thank you @decimus!

I became fixated on the gallery side and didn’t look into the lightbox. Once I investigated the link you provided, I was able to fix it quickly by adding the class “blog” to each image that was used as a link. (This is one of the anti-selector classes.) It might not be a totally appropriate class and I should probably add a new class to the anti-selector list, but it does the job for now.

Your help is much appreciated.

Edit: I have updated the page to use blocks with a custom link on each image (or at least some of them)

I also discovered the meow “Gallery Custom Links” plugin which I installed and activated.

I am still getting the lightbox instead of going to the target of the link

I am using Gutenberg. I don’t think Modula has an option to transform back to standard. They are not as friendly as Meow in that respect. (Thank you, that’s a big part of why I’m transferring.)

Here’s a test post showing what I mean. The first gallery has a lot of information about the images, including source sets – that’s what I meant by fully populated. The second and third one do not, but all three create the same output, although the third (an experiment) gives an error in visual edit.

It’s fairly easy to type in the short code, much harder to re-find all the images and create the gallery by selecting images.

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<h2>Using meow gallery block</h2>
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[gallery ids="998,1000"][/gallery]
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<h2>Shortcode in a shortcode block</h2>
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[gallery ids="998,1000" link="media"][/gallery]
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<h2>Shortcode inside a meow gallery tag</h2>
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<!-- wp:meow-gallery/gallery -->
[gallery ids="998,1000"][/gallery]
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So again, my question is: am I losing out on performance using “just” a shortcode instead of creating what I called a fully populated block. Thanks.