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.
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.
Thanks a lot for this tip.
After installing the plugin my problem was solved!
Glad it worked for you both!
Sorry,but not work for me
. I have instaled nextGEN galery and jQuery Lightbox, but images open as thickbox
Sorry my english
UPDATE: Lightbox starts, but dont work correct, title image of close button dont show
I can’t thank you enough for that info. It did the trick for me perfectly.
Thanks Dan!
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?