Limiting number of albums limits number of photos in lightbox

  • Resolved mclsm

    (@mclsm)


    3 years ago

    Thank you for such a useful, versitile and free(!) plugin.

    I am using Photonic to display photos from Google and have hit a problem when I limit the number of albums initially viewable. It seems that whatever number I choose gets carried across to the lightbox set-up and becomes the number of images that can be viewed.

    If I choose to view 4 albums, then I can only view the first four images of the album in the lightbox; limit albums to 5 and the viewable images becomes 5. I’ve tested with different lightboxes and it seems to be a common issue.

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  • Plugin Author Sayontan Sinha

    (@sayontan)

    In the gallery shortcode there is a setting, photo_count, which controls this. So, if you pass count='5' and photo_count='100', you will get 5 albums with 100 photos within each.

    When you are creating the gallery using the wizard, the corresponding setting, “Number of photos to show in overlaid popup / separate gallery page” – this shows up if you pick one of the last 2 options for “Show photos in an overlaid popup panel upon clicking on an album / photoset / gallery”, though it should show up in all cases (that is a bug that I will need to fix).

    Thread Starter mclsm

    (@mclsm)

    Thank you for such a quick response.

    I’ve tried the two options you have suggested:

    1. “Yes – show photos in an overlay first” – places the overlay under the site header, but that’s been solved following some historic instructions you’ve given.
    2. “Page – Show photos in a separate page” behaves as expected if the separate page is identified in the photo template set-up. If it is not, then the lightbox opens immediately (i.e. the page is by-passed) which is the behaviour that I was trying to get. I’m in a local environment on XAMPP at the moment – is there any reason why this ‘work around’ might fail when I move to the hosted environment?
    Plugin Author Sayontan Sinha

    (@sayontan)

    Not sure if I followed your question, but this type of a fix doesn’t differ between environments. The only type of issue that fails between environments are those pertaining to caching and CDN, and this only impacts Google Photos.

    Thread Starter mclsm

    (@mclsm)

    That’s great, thank you for your help.

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