Gallery images do not open the lightbox
Images inside WordPress galleries and shortcode galleries do not open in the lightbox at all.
8 public reports · first reported 6 May 2014 · last reported 7 June 2016
What's going wrong
Site owners using this WordPress lightbox plugin report that images inside standard WordPress galleries, and galleries inserted through shortcodes or do_shortcode calls, open the raw image file in the browser instead of the overlay. Some see the expected data attributes in the page markup, yet nothing takes over the click, so the feature looks broken after a clean install. Others run custom or older themes that never trigger the gallery hook, and owners who need fullscreen mode on a shortcode page are stuck. A fix could be a compatibility checker or setup service that verifies gallery output against the lightbox and names the exact step that fails for each theme.
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Products affected
blueimp lightbox.
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Who has this problem
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