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FebHow To: Lightbox and NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN gallery is a fabulous addition to your WordPress site and with additional plugins can be used for so much more than just a gallery.

One of the issues we ran in to while doing work for a client was getting a lightbox overlay to work properly. The common solutions we came across were to install two additional plugins. One was the lightbox 2 plugin and the other was the shutter plugin for WordPress. Neither of these worked in our case. We were working on a fresh WordPress v. 2.9.2.

What did work for us was using the jQuery Lightbox plugin.  After installing this plugin and removing the two previous ones, all of our JavaScript errors were gone and we had a nice lightbox overlay appearing on images.

Hope it brings some help to those that maybe trying to accomplish the same thing.

Cz. A. Liebert says:
March 3, 2010 at 3:10 pm

I had the same problem with NextGen and Lighbox 2 on WP 2.9.2. After a bit of searching came to the same solution: NextGen + jQuery Lightbox.

Ricardo says:
April 15, 2010 at 1:59 pm

Thanks a lot for this tip.

After installing the plugin my problem was solved!

Jason Craig says:
April 15, 2010 at 4:46 pm

Glad it worked for you both!

Gavo says:
April 22, 2010 at 11:13 am

Sorry,but not work for me :( . I have instaled nextGEN galery and jQuery Lightbox, but images open as thickbox

Sorry my english

Gavo says:
April 22, 2010 at 11:28 am

UPDATE: Lightbox starts, but dont work correct, title image of close button dont show :(

Dan says:
May 27, 2010 at 1:30 am

I can’t thank you enough for that info. It did the trick for me perfectly.

Keri says:
July 22, 2010 at 4:21 pm

I need some help with this… I have installed and activated the jQuery Lightbox plugin and set the options in nextGen to lightbox. The rel=”lightbox” code is in the img tag when I view the code. But it is not working. The image just opens up into a new window. What have I missed?

Andy says:
August 8, 2010 at 2:31 pm

Hi everyone,

I am new to this show could someone show me steps by steps on how to get this work? I have NextGen and jQuary Lightobox plugins insatlled but I don’t know how to “connect” those two plugins. Thanks first.

Andy

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