Sorry for the slow reply. I don’t think clicking a lightbox image to take one to the attachment page is the best idea. Users will expect to be either returned to the current page or taken to the next lightbox image when they click. Going elsewhere isn’t the best UX. I’d rather see a button in the lightbox that would take me to the attachment page for commenting. Clicking elsewhere would still do the expected.
If you can find a lightbox style app that lets us include arbitrary HTML with the image, this behavior would be possible. But having to manually add the HTML for the button for every image would be very tedious at best. It’d be better if the button could be created dynamically by the app, but I suspect such a feature would need to be custom coded.
Hi,
My current solution is as follows… My lightbox plugin allows me to take over the construction of the image title. So, with little coding, “Title” becomes “Title (comment)”, the “(comment)” part being the link to the attachment page. This is enough for what we want to do.
Thanks anyway.
(@samoreen)
5 years, 6 months ago
Hi,
I’m currently building a web site for my photo club. In the photo galleries, I want the users to be able to navigate the gallery images in a lightbox and also to be able to add comments to the currently displayed image.
My idea is to have the lightbox displayed when the user clicks on an image in the gallery and, when he clicks again, to have the attachment page displayed, thus giving him the possibility to add comments. I’m not sure about how to do this.
Of course, i would be nice to have the possibility to add comments directly from the lightbox but I didn’t find one that allows this.
Any advice will be welcome.
Thanks in advance.
Patrick