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• November 25, 2014 at 2:02 am #130713
  deejayhart

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  Is it possible to have a complete Masonry page which doesn’t go to a new page – just opens in a stylish lightbox of some kind? So I can have a wall of photos that I can just click on a thumb and then go through that way, keeping the background? Hope that is clear!

  November 25, 2014 at 8:44 am #130768
  Kyle – SUPPORT

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  Hi

  So you don’t want the single portfolio item page, just a lightbox? If so you can use the gallery type instead of the portfolio type 🙂

  -Kyle

  November 25, 2014 at 11:47 am #130866
  deejayhart

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  I am missing something, then – I have two installs of Cardinal – one which shows Team and Galleries – the other doesn’t. I have imported the Musician theme for one opf them, and galleries are not an option. How can I introduce that to the sidebar, please? Thanks!

  November 25, 2014 at 12:30 pm #130877
  Kyle – SUPPORT

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  The musician demo doesn’t have any galleries.

  You need to add a gallery post type and then insert the gallery page builder asset on your page

  – Kyle

  November 25, 2014 at 12:33 pm #130879
  deejayhart

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  I’m sorry, but i don’t know how to add a Gallery post type. I don’t see any options when I add a new post. What makes the admin options in Sidebar include things like Gallery, or Team etc? Thanks for your clarification!

  November 25, 2014 at 12:38 pm #130882
  Kyle – SUPPORT

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  You’re using Cardinal right? Then in your WP admin you should have Post, Page, Team, Gallery, Portfolio etc. If you don’t then you’ve likely disabled them in Theme Options > Custom Post Type Options

  – Kyle

  November 25, 2014 at 12:40 pm #130883
  deejayhart

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  This is really odd. I haven’t disabled anything… Please see attached for admin sidebar.

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  November 25, 2014 at 12:41 pm #130885
  Kyle – SUPPORT

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  Go to Theme Options > Custom Post Type Options and check

  – Kyle

  November 25, 2014 at 12:43 pm #130887
  deejayhart

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  I see – thanks! I was getting worried there…

  Quick other question – is it worth making a child theme?

  November 25, 2014 at 1:58 pm #130904
  Kyle – SUPPORT

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  Only if you plan on editing the php files

  – Kyle

  November 25, 2014 at 4:12 pm #131000
  deejayhart

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  I got you – now, this is really good, but I have a couple of questions too.

  These images are all “mini galleries” with just a couple of images. How can I get the effect of lots of tiled SINGLE photos which will then open a lightbox – possible? Can I have a mixture of the two on same page, even? single pics and galleries? If not, single pics but tiled is what I am after…

  Portfolio

  Thanks!

  November 27, 2014 at 9:12 am #131571
  Kyle – SUPPORT

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  Hi

  You would just have to put the images in the same gallery

  – Kyle

  November 27, 2014 at 12:54 pm #131715
  deejayhart

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  Not a well considered reply, Kyle – don’t you see it takes twice the time to answer with a few words?

  As I say, I want one gallery but many tiled images, wherr clicking any of them opens a lightbox where the whole lot can be viewed this was including fullscreen. In fact, most people would, I think!

  Is THIS possible?

  Ta.

  November 27, 2014 at 1:12 pm #131721
  Kyle – SUPPORT

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  I don’t understand what you’re trying to do.

  Here are your options:

  Add a gallery to the page, this will be a tiled gallery, when you click one of the image all the images of the gallery will open in a lightbox which you can scroll through.

  You can add single image assets to the page, however when you click these only that image will open in the lightbox.

  – Kyle

  November 27, 2014 at 1:44 pm #131738
  deejayhart

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  OK what I want is – we have masonry style set of images. Click any and you get a gallery. OR integrate a plugin such as nextgen gallery. OK?
  Also, could you address my other questions on headers, box content etc today, please? I just want a centred text box, with about a 100 pixel gap, showing above a background, with a fancy header correctly positioned where the text does not look too high up… Please see my posts, spending bloody hours trying to do a simple thing now.

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