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@shlomobaruch….you’re quite the detective. So if I understand you correctly, if I upgrade to 3.5 and install the Fancybox plugin, my galleries will look the same as they do now.

@shlomobaruch….I had the lightbox plugin installed with 3.5 while I was trying to find a gallery solution but I don’t see it in my list of installed plugins now. But thanks for taking a look!

Glad to hear that it’s working for you. What does your gallery look like? Would it be possible to see some links to galleries on your blog?

Thanks Shlomobaruch. And I have no problem paying for a premium gallery plugin that can provide me a similar gallery style and functionality. I just need time to do research but I don’t have the time right now and I can’t leave my galleries looking as ugly as 3.5 galleries.

I do agree that the “drag ‘n drop” is a very nice touch. Too bad the results don’t match the functionality. At the end of the day, galleries are for showing images in a clean, elegant manner. All the nice functionality in the world is pointless if it results in an ugly result, which seems to be the case with 3.5.

Cheers.

Thanks for your reply Rev. Voodoo. I’m pretty sure I know how to use the new gallery functionality but perhaps there’s something I’m not using correctly. I temporarily reverted back to 3.4.2 because I just don’t have the time right now to go and update all of my previous posts and galleries with NextZGen galleries or any other gallery plugin.

The gallery style I’m seeking is what’s currently on my site using 3.4.2. Here’s an example of a post with a large photo gallery at the bottom. When you click on an image, a simple, elegant pop-up box appears:

https://whiskyandspice.ca/the-ceili-cottage/

That is the gallery style that I’m seeking but I can’t seem to replicate it in version 3.5. Perhaps my theme is interfering.

If I can’t replicate that style in version 3.5 then I will have to take the time to re-upload every gallery on every post using a plug-in like NextGen which will be very time consuming, then I will upgrade to 3.5 but I simply don’t have the time for that right now and can’t have my galleries looking ugly in the meantime.

Thanks for your advice.

I was just going to post about the new gallery function myself. Although the new “drag and drop” functionality is helpful, I totally agree that the way the full size images are viewed with galleries is absolutely terrible and downright ugly.

The standard WordPress 3.4.2 galleries were simple to create and the full-size images would pop-up into a relatively elegant image viewer where people could just click to the next image in the gallery and then close the pop-up viewer. The image file name would be included in small text at the bottom of the pop-up gallery viewer.

But now I have two options: attachment or media file. As you mentioned, “media file” option just opens the full size image with a grey background and the user has to use the browser back button to go back to the gallery. Or use “attachment” option when creating the gallery which creates a very, very ugly page with the image file name in huge text and the full size image is pushed down the page where only half the image can be seen forcing the user to scroll down.

Not only did I have to spend hours yesterday searching for a new gallery creator (using NextGen for new galleries) but now all of my old photo galleries have to be re-uploaded using the NextGen gallery creator which means that I have to now go back and re-upload all of my photo galleries for each of my posts and galleries which is a LOT of work.

I am seriously, seriously disappointed and frustrated with the ugliness of the new gallery function on WordPress 3.5.

Is there any way to revert back to version 3.4.2? I wish that I had never pushed the “upgrade” button to 3.5. This is a total, frustrating headache.