Hello, Chris, if you’re unable to enable/disable the lightbox option for the native WordPress gallery, it’s clearly the result of a conflict between plugins or with your theme. Since this is happening in the admin area of your site, I unfortunately can’t assist further — I don’t have visibility into the errors that occur when the lightbox settings are being saved.
Can’t be the theme it’s just a simple Block theme with no functions.php. You’re saying there’s no way for me to go into wp_options and edit whatever record stores the settings for the plugin? My only option is to lose every gallery I built and delete the plugin and try to find every trace of it in the database and wipe those too and then reinstall? The galleries work fine, the problem is despite your documentation saying you only attach the lightbox to native images which are references through links yet I have another plugin that create a login link on the user avatar, where the link is to /wp-login.php yet you’re attaching to it preventing it from working.
If you’d like to edit the database directly, look for the option named “pgc_sgb_global_lightbox_use”. Set its value to 0, and that should disable the Simply Gallery lightbox.
That said, I recommend making a backup of your database before doing this — although I’m sure you already know and are comfortable with that process.
Hey Nadiya,
Thanks so much for your help, that worked perfectly and solved my problem. Since Lightbox doesn’t work on WooCommerce pages not sure why I activated it but next time I get a client I can convince to buy the Pro version I may be knocking at your door again to figure out why the Avatar login icon link was getting attached. Have a great day!
Chris
