NextGen Gallery is definitely among the best plugins ever written for WordPress. I wrote about it in my earlier post here.
With the base install of NextGen Gallery, however, you can only do two effects – either the “Thickbox,” or “Shutter” effects.
However, it’s the Lightbox effect that most people look for, and want to use.
Unintuitively, in order to enable the Lightbox effect for NextGen Gallery in WordPress, you will need to use a different plugin entirely.
My compatriot Giuseppe Argento comes to the rescue with a light weight rewrite of the Lightbox plugin, now known as the Slimbox Plugin.
http://www.4mj.it/slimbox-wordpress-plugin/
The official WordPress page for the plugin is here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/slimbox-plugin/
Just install the plugin, then, in the Gallery options, go to:
Gallery >> Options >> Effects
You can now choose “Lightbox,” and it will work perfectly.
And, for the record, it works 100% with 3.0.1, as well.
Just make sure that your images are not too big, as Lightbox/Slimbox does not resize images that come up in the modal layer above your Web page.
I usually shoot for a maximum size of 800 x 600.
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Yeah, but does it work with Thesis?
Yes, Amy – it definitely works with Thesis. I think this depends on the jQuery library…
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