Photonic gallery keeps redirecting to my photos.smugmug page

My guess is that your (or your theme’s) approach of loading content using JavaScript is preventing Photonic’s lightbox from binding itself to the photos. What I mean is, if I scroll down your page, your browser link keeps changing. This likely prevents a JavaScript event from triggering. Photonic needs the document content to be loaded before it can bind the lightbox to the photos – if that event is suppressed due to loading page content via JavaScript events, there is no way it will be able to know when to attach itself.

Thank you for the quick reply Sayontan. So it sounds like I need to just use a different gallery solution other that Photonic? There is no work-around?

I fixed it! By selecting the two options below it started working.

Under Photonic – General Settings

I simply selected:

Nested Shortcodes in Parameters
External Link Handling

Really? That should have no impact whatsoever on your scenario. You are not using nested shortcodes in Photonic, and external link handling just tells the code to add a target="_blank" to the links. Basically, when a photo is coming up in the lightbox, when you are clicking on the word “View” at the bottom, that opens in a new tab.

Are you sure you didn’t change anything in your theme? JS-based loading done by themes often causes conflicts with plugins or other content that relies on your entire page being loaded before kicking into action, so theme authors sometimes offer a capability disable it.