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In mobile view, touching the text makes it disapear, can we have an icon to indicate (somehow) that touching the screen area again brings back the text?

Tapping the display – anywhere, not just on the text – will not only hide the text but also the controls to provide an unobstructed view of the image without any elements on top of it. Keeping a visual hint that tapping again will get back the text and controls counteracts that idea. And besides that Photoswipe just does not have such a feature and adding it might be not that easy. To give you an impression about the complexity, see https://github.com/arnowelzel/lightbox-photoswipe/blob/main/src/lib/photoswipe.js and https://github.com/arnowelzel/lightbox-photoswipe/blob/main/src/lib/photoswipe-ui-default.js

However, you can disable this whole feature in the backend – see “Enable tap to toggle controls on mobile devices” in the “Mobile” tab. If you disable this, tapping the display will not hide anything any longer.

How do i change the color of the “entering full screen mode” message?

You can’t. This notice is displayed by the UI of your browser and not by the website or the plugin – therefore it can’t be styled.

OK thanks.
The last thing would be to reduce the box size around each element so the glow emanates from the control, not the outer box.

https://www.christophersproat.com/wp/installations/#&gid=1&pid=30

Preferably a glowing circle, not a square…

Is there a way to do that?

The last thing would be to reduce the box size around each element so the glow emanates from the control, not the outer box.

There is no “outer box”. The control itself is the box and the “glow” is just the visual indicator of exactly this control. You can try to make the controls smaller – but this will also make them harder to click or touch.

It is not possible to create controls based on clickable <button> elements which have the shape of a circle – this is only possible with image maps but this is a completely different concept to design the UI and would also require substantial changes in the UI of Photoswipe as it does not use images as controls but buttons with image as visual indicators.

However – feel free to create your own UI – see “How to modify the PhotoSwipe markup” in the FAQ. You can apply a filter for lbwps_markup and provide your own HTML code for the Lightbox wich does not use buttons but images with an image map. The only important thing is to use the same CSS class names, so the Photoswipe click handlers will work properly.