Sidebar widget pagination – Please :)

@shainanz – I would recommend a shortcode instead of the widget in this case.

[ngg_images gallery_ids=1 display_type=photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails images_per_page=9 show_all_in_lightbox=true]

The above will require your theme can parse shortcode structures from a text widget, if you are unsure you can check with your theme author or have a look at this article for assistance: https://wpfirstaid.com/2012/10/use-shortcodes-in-text-widgets/

Thanks!

– Cais.

Hi Cais,
Thanks! It’s 90% there with that.

Is there no way to do it without reloading the whole page (a bit like how it’s done in this theme)? With this shortcode you’ve provided, after clicking the link to the next page, the page reloads and goes to the top of the page, even if the gallery is at the bottom of the page. The user would need to scroll back down to where they were, which isn’t a great user experience. I would really like to eliminate the page reload altogether, however.

Alternatively, it would even be a step up from where I am with just the widget if when a thumbnail is clicked, it goes allows the user to view the full gallery instead of just the full versions of the nine thumbnails on the page.

Is there a way to have either of these?

@shainanz – You can add the ajax_pagination=true parameter to that shortcode and it should do what you are looking for as far as holding in place when you use the pagination navigation.

I’m not sure I understand the second idea, can you elaborate?

– Cais.

Hi Cais,
My shortcode now looks like:
[ngg_images gallery_ids=3 display_type=photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails images_per_page=12 show_all_in_lightbox=true ajax_pagination=true]

But the ajax pagination is not working. Have I messed it up?

Regarding my second idea, say I have 24 images in my gallery but I only want 12 thumbnails to show. When I click on a thumbnail, I want to be able to scroll through all 24 images in the gallery. As it is now, when I click on a thumbnail, I can only scroll through the 12 images that have the thumbnails, not all 24 (see it in my sidebar here). Does that make more sense?

@shainanz – My apologies, the correct parameter would be ajax_pagination=1 to turn on Ajax Pagination … and I’m not seeing any pagination navigation in the sidebar which would indicate those 12 images are all that are in that display from a front-facing view.

– Cais.

Hi Cais,
That parameter did the trick.

The link I shared is still only using the widget, not the shortcode, so I was just showing that even though there are 24 images in that gallery, because I have 12 thumbnails, only 12 images from the gallery appear in the lightbox view. Since the ajax pagination is working, I’m happy leaving it as it is.

Thanks for your help!

@shainanz – You’re welcome!

– Cais.

One last thing… I just switched to the shortcode on my live site and it is working everywhere except for one page. I have a few different sidebars that I use, and one of them is not playing nicely with the shortcode even though it uses the exact same gallery ID (and other widgets) as my other sidebars.

See it here. Beneath my quote widget, I see <div class="textwidget"></div>, but there is no content in it.

Any ideas?

@shainanz – I’m not seeing it (https://take.ms/LoR0E) … did you try clearing caches?

– Cais.

Oops, yes. It was caching. Thanks ??

@shainanz – You’re welcome … caching can be a bane as much as it is a boon.

– Cais.