Gallery navigation
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It seems that the requirement of being able to move forwards (and backwards preferably) through pictures in the same gallery – with eg Next and Back buttons or links – has been discussed before in 2008. Is there still no way to do this without having to using one of the three approved Slideshow services? I really don’t want to store my images elsewhere than on WordPress servers.
Specifically, if someone clicks the first image on http://oldwodens.wordpress.com/woden-magazines-test/woden-v5n4-autumn-term-1955/ how can they move through the pages without having to return to the main gallery page each time?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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The attachment pages now have navigation. It appears that you have checked the option for thumbnails to be linked to the image. Edit so that they open in attachment pages.
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Change the gallery settings so that thumbnails link to attachment pages instead of image files. Attachment pages now include previous/next thumbnails.
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Many thanks, 1tess and panaghiotisadam, that would do very nicely – exactly what I would like. Unfortunately, my first attempt produces the main photo (the one between the two previous and next thumbnail links) too small to read. I must be missing something (again!) but is there any way to make that linkable to a much bigger version (as it couldn’t, within the column of the blog, be displayed at a size big enough to read the text).
http://oldwodens.wordpress.com/woden-v5n5-spring-term-1956/ shows my attempt….
Thanks again
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The thumbnails *are* the navigation forwards and backwards and there is also now a “breadcrumb” trail at the top of each attachment page if your reader wants to return to the full post.BUT, it seems that Kubrik is a theme where clicking on the “full size” image doesn’t bring up the original image. As soon as Support returns, I’d write to them about it. It should be fixed IMNSHO.
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Sorry. I see the problem again.
The attachment pages open with your thems’s formatting, including sidebar and all. The largest image you could have in kubrik would be only 450 px. You could get the images in attachment pages to open full sized, but then they would again have no navigation—except for using the browser back button: sadly, back to where you started from.
What I mean is for example, this page has a picture which links to the larger image
http://oldwodens.wordpress.com/headmasters-logs/csks-school-logs/csk-1956-final-term/
but the readable picture has no navigation
http://oldwodens.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/wbhs07721.jpg -
Ok. This might be a long shot, but it works in my test blog. I don’t have time right now to do much testing. Sorry. But this might inspire?
First go to widgets and add the social vibe widget. I could no longer get it to work properly in my test blog (it does not show up in the sidebar—all to the good in my opinion) but it still enables this trick to work:
<a class="thickbox" href="http://LINK_TO_IMAGE_FILE.jpg"><img class="alignnone" title="TITLE" src="http://LINK_TO_IMAGE_FILE.jpg.jpg?w=150" alt="" width="96" height="72" /></a>When you click on the image on your page, it will pop-up full-sized.
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Thanks 1tess for your helpful suggestion. Adding the social vibe widget to the blog was easy (and is invisible as you predicted), but – despite a bit of tinkering – I can’t work out what to do with the HTML code you quote in your suggestion, or indeed, how many times it needs to be inserted and what should replace LINK_TO_IMAGE_FILE, if anything!
Sorry, but could you suggest where to put it (and whether instead of or as well as other code), please?
Thanks again.
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