Gallery Link URL not working

  • I have tried for 2 days to get my Galleries working. I’m new to WordPress so I’ve tried really hard here for days to read and research.
    I want a number of galleries, each containing multiple photos with caption and description. When I click on an individual image on hte gallery page, I want to open a new page with more details about the photo on it. Not a carousel.
    I’m using the Photolio theme.
    According to the articles i’ve read (and I’ve read and tried all I can find for hours), the way appears to be to populate the Link URL field, and then set the Gallery Settings “Link Thumnails To” to “File Attachment”.
    It works when there is only one image in the gallery. If more than one, the Gallery editor will not save a link in the Link URL field.

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  • Unless you provide a link to a page demonstrating the problem, no one will be able to offer much in the way of assistance.

    Thread Starter CatfishJed

    (@catfishjed)

    Sorry, I should have included links showing the results i’m getting.

    This is a single image inserted into the page, when its clicked it opens up a page with the description. https://www.johnorourkeart.com/paint/1980-1990/

    This is an attempt to put two images into the gallery – click and i just get a carousel. https://www.johnorourkeart.com/sculpture-portfolio/2000-present/

    Are you using a lightbox plugin? Or is this built into the theme? I suspect that it’s the lightbox causing your current problems.

    Thread Starter CatfishJed

    (@catfishjed)

    No, its built into the theme. I’m coming to the conclusion that the theme isn’t going to do what I want naturally. I didn’t really want to code on this site at all, but I think i’m going to have to look at another theme or get a plugin for a gallery with richer functionality – I wonder if nextGen might do this, or would there be any other suggestions please?

    What about having a look at some other photoblogging themes via the theme tag filter?

    Thread Starter CatfishJed

    (@catfishjed)

    I will, thank you.
    In the meantme, I am still somewhat disconcnerted that I can go into the “gallery” tab on the media inserter dialog on a page, type an actual page URL into a field called “Link URL”, hit “Save all changes”, go back in and it hasn’t saved… and will not …. is this sort of thing normal?

    Not it isn’t. Best guess, your current theme is doing its own funky gallery thing which completely over-rides the default Gallery settings.

    Hi, Im have Photolio on my wordpress and when I got to photographer-headshots
    I see a perfect thumbnail gallery. when you click to enlarge the photo it does it and you can scroll to other photos. However when you see the site not as the administrator the photo enlarges to full size, no scroll. Can you offer any help?? it worked perfect a week ago then i have no idea what happened.??
    https://www.brianthomasinc.com
    my email: brianthomas@me.com
    thank you!

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