New Photo Carousel
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Do I understand correctly that the new photo carousel has a problem and is not able to present images as large as your display can contain them? My images are samples of my published text and they are no longer big enough to read. I looked at them on both my laptop and desktop computers, and they got no bigger on the larger monitor. The only work-around I could figure out was to click “Permalink” and when the image appears, to click again to enlarge it. But that’s asking a potential viewer to do a lot.
Thanks for any enlightenment on this issue.
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The only work-around I could figure out was to click “Permalink” and when the image appears, to click again to enlarge it. But that’s asking a potential viewer to do a lot.
That’s correct. I’m sorry but there is no way to disable the carousel at this point in time. Clicking “Permalink” in the Carousel view takes you to wherever the thumbnail used to (either the full image file or attachment page with comments). Staff have advised that this is the first iteration of the Carousel feature, so we’ll all have to wait and see what’s coming at us next. http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/new-photo-carousel/#comment-142425
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When you’re about to insert a gallery, you can select Link thumbnails to > Image File instead of Attachment Page, so that clicking Permalink will lead directly to the real size original. Same thing for already published posts: click on the rectangle that represents the gallery, click the edit icon, select Image File, click Update gallery settings; or (faster) switch the editor to HTML and change the gallery shortcode from this:
[gallery]
to this:
[gallery link="file"]And you’d better add a note in your posts to tell visitors what Permalink is supposed to do.
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Then your description above (“click Permalink and when the image appears […] click again to enlarge it”) is incorrect.
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This is an absolutely awful idea. I have a thousand posts most of them with galleries of large photos of art objects. This was the principal attraction of my blog. Now my readers can no longer see the large photos; you are telling me that I can try to repost all of my posts, which would be herculean labor, but even then readers cannot link to the large size photos. Don’t tell me I have to leave wordpress.
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No one is telling you to repost all your posts: all you have to do is add a note informing your visitors that they need to click “Permalink” if they wish to see the large size photos.
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Because I started this thread, I’d like to go into more detail about my experience with the new carousel in an effort to find some solutions.
Since all of my images include a lot of text I need them to be large enough to read.
My first problem is that the carousel does not expand the image as large as the original – even on a bigger monitor. If I understand correctly, this was supposed to be the benefit of the carousel, i.e., that it would enlarge images based on the size of the viewer’s monitor.
Before the new carousel was enabled, I simply told my viewers to click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it, and when that second image appeared, to click again. Even though it was a slightly cumbersome 2-step process, it worked; by the time you got to the third version of the image it was large enough to read.
Now with the carousel implemented my viewers have to undertake yet another step, and obviously that concerns me since I don’t want to discourage them from reading my images. I tried to make the new instructions on my pages as concise and clear as possible in an effort not to discourage them, so this is what I came up with (and hope they’re clear enough):
Click on an image to begin the slideshow. To enlarge documents, click Permalink in the slideshow, then click the image.
Click escape in the upper right corner to exit the slideshow.
I felt it was necessary to include the text about using escape because at first I didn’t see the word on the screen. The word is not very contrasty, and I decided if I had a hard time finding it so might someone else.
Also, since I’m not a techie I don’t know what Permalink is or what it means. I’m sure many of the people who look at my site won’t either.
Another problem with the new carousel is that sometimes the full captions don’t show in the slideshow. I tried to shorten those that I could but it was impossible to reduce the number of words in all of them.
Because of the problems the carousel created with my site I, like humidfruit, thought I’d have to leave WordPress. But, other than this, I’ve been really happy with it and don’t want to leave. I’m hoping improvements will be made to the carousel in the near future and that, in the meantime, someone out there has some suggestions for these issues.
Thanks.
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