Display one image to link to lightbox gallery

I’m trying to figure out the exact same thing, without any luck so far. Please post an update if you figure this out.

Hello,
did you manage to find out something concerning a lightbox gallery link? Please post any updates, it would be a great help!!

Great question – i am in the middle of the same quest – can′t seem to figure out how to resolve this problem.

I am running a easy photo-blogg – which i am striving to get completely flat.

On the front page i have one thumbnail from each post which i manually chose with a “custom field” commando. By cliquing this thumbnail you get to the actual post with the image gallery – and then clicking any picture in this gallery opens the Lightbox Plus (great plug-in btw!).

I would like to achieve that by cliquing a Thumbnail on the front page opens the correct gallery with the lightbox plus feature.

I am more or less a primary school child when it comes to PHP-programing, so please excuse my lack of knowledge.

In many of my PHP file there is a string that looks like this that seems to control what the “thumbnail” is going to do…

im using the F8 theme from Graphpaperpress…

Grateful for any answer that puts me in any direction…

<?php
	$values = get_post_custom_values("thumbnail");
	if (isset($values[0])) {
?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><img src="<?php $values = get_post_custom_values("thumbnail"); echo $values[0]; ?>" alt="" /></a>
<?php } ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

Could it be that easy that it is just to put

[gallery=file]

In the right place?

But can′t understand where…