Lightbox opens images as pages instead
Images open as separate pages instead of the lightbox, sometimes inconsistently on refresh and sometimes for single images in posts.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 5 August 2026 · last reported 24 August 2026
What's going wrong
Owners of photo sites using the NextGEN Gallery plugin report that clicking images sometimes opens a separate page instead of the lightbox.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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