Not sure what it does?

Hello! Thank you for using our plugin.
In answer to your question, when expanded the plugin displays the image on the original size as it was uploaded to wordpress.
On the plugin settings you can set the maximum height for the container so that larger images can be displayed at the desired size, but if the image resolution is smaller than the container height it won’t be stretched.

Following this link you can see the lite version of the plugin working in our site:
Xpand Gallery Lite DEMO

Hope this helps,
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Thanks for that, let me play about with it

I think what’s probably happened is that I’ve assumed the image fills out to the size specified in the height settings. So to clarify, how it actually works is as follows?

1: Enter a display height in the plug in
2: Save all images as normal at the size you want them to expand
3: Put them into wordpress as normal using the ‘add media’ button
4: In effect the height control feature in the plug is a ‘master sizing tool’ to control what size the images display at until they’re clicked on, at which point the image that is clicked on will expand to the size that you save it at?

Well I’ve tried re-entering 6 new images in a gallery table, but sadly it doesn’t seem to have made much difference. The images have gone in at a height of 300 px, but clicking them doesn’t cause anything to expand. Come to think of it, the lightbox doesn’t work either.

The originals were cut out at full screen size on my PC which normally comes in at something like 1200×800 so should expand, but there’s just no action there at all

Urm…

Right, it transpires I had images inside of a table, and that must have been the issue, for once I removed all the table coding they expanded, albeit they look a bit ugly now for having lost their frame. I suppose they will look moderately ugly though regardless, as the subject matter doesn’t help (I mean, how can you make Excel charts look anything other than?). The theme I’m using needn’t help but it’s designed for trying to transfer info on a hand held device with minimum clutter

The only thing that doesn’t seem to work now is the arrow back and forward slider, which I’m assuming is a setting. To some extent I’ve achieved a similar level of functionality by coding a tab, but it’s still easier to arrow forward than flick between tabs I reckon

Hello Melpomene, it seems that the problem is specifically for your setup, please let us know if you have further issues.

Best Regards,
Hey Development Team

Well I ripped all the code out for the table and simply entered images as normal using the add image function. It looks reasonably ugly in truth, but I think that owes something to the theme (twentythirteen) and also that we’re using pretty dry graphs. I quite like the idea of having the graphs expand however at the users discretion as this saves have one massive scroll down. The only problem I’ve got with the plug in is that the navigation arrows simply don’t work (in fact I’ve never seen them display yet). I can’t see that there’s anything in the set up I need to box check to get them, so I kind of assumed they’d come as part of the set up once it was installed (as the demo shows) but they don’t appear to be there?