I want to do exactly the same thing – can anyone help?

Thanks

Apologies – I just re-read, and realized that you want the link to open the image in a shutterbox/thickbox ‘pop-up’ effect. I’m not sure how to do that. For grins, I tried adding class=”shutter” to the anchor tag, but it didn’t seem to work.

Crud – missed a back-tick…

Thumbnails section in gallery.php or gallery-gallery2.php in full with the link including class addition:

<!-- Thumbnails -->
	<?php foreach ( $images as $image ) : ?>

	<div id="ngg-image-<?php echo $image->pid ?>" class="ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box" <?php echo $image->style ?> >
		<div class="ngg-gallery-thumbnail" >
			<a href="<?php echo $image->imageURL ?>" title="<?php echo $image->description ?>" <?php echo $image->thumbcode ?> >
				<?php if ( !$image->hidden ) { ?>
				<img title="<?php echo $image->alttext ?>" alt="<?php echo $image->alttext ?>" src="<?php echo $image->thumbnailURL ?>" <?php echo $image->size ?> />
				<?php } ?>
			</a>
			<span> <a href="<?php echo $image->imageURL ?> " class="shutter"> Link </a> </span>
		</div>
	</div>

	<?php if ( $image->hidden ) continue; ?>
	<?php if ( $gallery->columns > 0 && ++$i % $gallery->columns == 0 ) { ?>
		<br style="clear: both" />
	<?php } ?>

 	<?php endforeach; ?>

	<!-- Pagination -->
 	<?php echo $pagination ?>

</div>

<?php endif; ?>

I tried the code listed above in bolide’s post and it didn’t work for me… Can anyone help me figure out why? I tried about a million variations of different things to find if I was making a mistake somewhere, I’m pretty sure that there are missing quotes after “shutterset_set_8” also – correct? I added those quotes, changed the image title and inserted the proper image link only to have the image just open in the same browser window (replacing the webpage).

Can anyone help please? I’m not sure if the “Image_Title” even matters here, but I matched it verbatim to what is in my gallery. I also am certain the link is proper since it opens the image, I even tried it with both the actual image title (.jpg extension) and using the NextGen image id number.

I don’t want to put a link to my site only because I am constantly making changes trying to fix this, so I can’t tell you what state it will be in. I’m not a professional programmer, but I know my way around HTML and CSS pretty well so I don’t feel like I’m overlooking anything basic.

Thanks in advance.

PS – just so we’re clear, this is the code I’m using:

<a class="shutterset_set_8" title="Wires under right side cover" href="/wp-content/image_gallery/tech/electrical/load_eq/done.jpg">this picture</a>

Hi, I’m trying to accomplish the same thing but cannot find a combination that will work for me. I tried the code from bolide above to no avail and began trying all variations; none of which will work. Can anyone help with this? Eventually the idea is to link the “film-strip” photo to the NextGen gallery. Currently the site is up on a temporary server. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

http://scoopsriverpark.com/posh/gallery/website-filmstrip-images/

Ooohh, I had to edit the “meteor-slideshow.php” file to have it open a link in a lightbox. My solution was:
<a href="<?php echo get_post_meta( $post->ID, "slide_url_value", $single = true ); ?>" class="shutterset_website-filmstrip-images" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail( 'featured-slide' ); ?></a>

@lpnotes

Sorry for the delay in replying, I was out of town.

This code works for me, I’m unsure what your specific problem is. Check out an example I have here:

http://tech.bareasschoppers.com/resources/the-problem-with-wire-tap-connectors/

At the very bottom of that article there is a link “do this instead” and it works. This is my code for it:

<a class="thickbox" href="/wp-content/image_gallery/misc/pigtail.jpg" title="Inline splice solder connection">do this instead</a>

When you click on it you get the pop-up image and the text description under it.

I dunno what your specific problem is, your code looks good to me, I hope you get it figured out.

@bare Thank you so much! I just missed adding the “title” text inside the class. The only other thing I couldn’t figure out, though, was how to get a hyperlink inside the description.

title="description <a href="#"> description"

didn’t work for obvious reasons.

I’m also interested in knowing the answer to @designwise’s question.