Image as a link opens Meow when clicked

  • Resolved unabashedgeek

    (@unabashedgeek)


    3 years, 7 months ago

    I switched to Meow a few months back and all seemed well until I went to add an Instagram link in my social media links page. Then I found that any of the links which used images as the source invoke Meow when clicked, not the link. (The cursor changes to a “plus” over my images now, not a “hand pointing”.)

    I abandoned my changes, so what you see is the way the page was before I converted to Meow. No apparently I didn’t.

    This page still uses classic editor, but I tried (only in preview mode) changing to blocks and using the custom link feature on an image block, and that does the same.

    I must admit I don’t use WordPress (or HTML) as much as I used to, so I’m quite willing to believe I’m doing something stupid, but I can’t see what it is. How do I tell Meow gallery that I don’t want it to help with these particular images?

    Thank you.

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  • Thread Starter unabashedgeek

    (@unabashedgeek)

    Edit: I have updated the page to use blocks with a custom link on each image (or at least some of them)

    I also discovered the meow “Gallery Custom Links” plugin which I installed and activated.

    I am still getting the lightbox instead of going to the target of the link

    @unabashedgeek wonder if its this linked to setting in Lightbox. Take a look at: https://meowapps.com/meow-lightbox-tutorial/
    Check out the Selector section.

    Thread Starter unabashedgeek

    (@unabashedgeek)

    Thank you @decimus!

    I became fixated on the gallery side and didn’t look into the lightbox. Once I investigated the link you provided, I was able to fix it quickly by adding the class “blog” to each image that was used as a link. (This is one of the anti-selector classes.) It might not be a totally appropriate class and I should probably add a new class to the anti-selector list, but it does the job for now.

    Your help is much appreciated.

    @unabashedgeek – it was a bit of a guess so glad it enabled you to pin-point the problem. I had a similar problem and the fix was to remove the .entry-content selector in Lightbox.

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