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How can I best achieve my perfect single photo view?

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    Venutius on #55463

    Hi Brajesh :),

    I’ve been testing MPP2, and I’ve not seen an error yet. However, you were right, it broke my customisations, but, that should be simple to correct.

    I now need to move from my original simple customisation into a more professional look and feel. A major issue I had with the mpp light-box, was – 1. there is an intermediary page view, the single page view, which adds little to the user experience, as in, you click the thumbnail, see, in many case a slightly larger version of the image, with no more information, then click on that, to a light-box that you cannot close, as it does not have the escape button exit nor an “X” to quit. My quick fix for this, was to add into my template a class for wp image zoom, and they could zoom the single photo image and it would zoom without the light-box. No frustrating light-box interface. I suggest that you need to add those controls, but also, let it browse the gallery with a left and right.

    However, those light-boxes are limited in what they can do, and I have a better suggestion to build towards. The first part of this, is that we, or I, if all I need is already there, rebuild that single page template as I show in the attached image. I’m happy to code myself if you already have the hooks and functions needed.

    We can take it one step at a time. Assuming I will also image zoom this template. My first priority is to get my post-type excerpt into the single page view. I should be able to sort that, but how about you making it an option in Mediapress? I think BP users would like, for example, to have the option to add their group photo directory description, or, indeed, their individual photo description.

    https://brigantesnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/BN-Requirement-sigle-photo-view.png

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    Venutius on #55464

    Ah, it seems my settings have changed. I will play and see what I can get.

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    Venutius on #55465

    I played with all the settings, no change in behaviour. Presumably, comments are for BP comments only?

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    Venutius on #55466

    I’ve set it to display the description, but nothing is being shown. this may be because I am using the shortcode?

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    Venutius on #55467

    I’m not sure what has happened, but reverting to the old version has not fixed it. It is like all of my settings changes are being ignored, and so is my over-ride. Even when I add the over-ride directly to the MPP source file. That class just does not appear, and enabling the lightbox does nothing. My over-ride was of photo.php

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    Venutius on #55468

    I reinstalled mpp2 and removed my over-rides, then reset the settings, to show lightbox, comments and description everywhere, and none of those features appear in my galleries.

    I don’t think this has ever worked.

    I’m now going to retry my over-rides, now I’ve worked out what should do what. Even the image size is wrong. My settings say large, my shortcode says large and I get medium.

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    Venutius on #55469

    I’ve checked the options, and my media settings are being saved. I’m wondering if there is a filter changing things?

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    Venutius on #55470

    my overload is on /default/gallery/views/photo.php

    I changed it, to add a span with a class. The span did not show. This was after resetting caches
    presumably, this is no longer the template part being loaded.

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    Brajesh Singh on #55482

    Hi George,
    I am sorry, I could not assist with your queries earlier.

    You have correct override. Plea make sure the theme/child theme with override is active.

    Unless you are filtering on settings somewhere, the plugin is not aware of the setting from 2(on reverting to 1.x series) and they should work.

    Thank you for your suggestions about gallery, here is one implementation we did in past.

    https://github.com/mediapress/mpp-light-gallery

    Please let me know which version of MediaPress you will be using and I will be assisting accordingly.

    Regards
    Brajesh

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    Venutius on #55487

    I got confused and was uploading from the wrong directory again lol, Going to start looking into this again right now.

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