Hi alex-sf!
I’m not nextgen but i want to try to help. I’ll hope i have truly understood your problem. I think you want to put a singlepic or thumbnail into a site or an article that will be open the gallery by clicking that?
Have you already try this to do with an album? Have a look here:
http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/add-album/
Create a new album under “Gallery” “Manage albums” and put the gallery into this album with the template “compact album”. Than you can place this album within the ATP button or an shortcode on every site/article you want.
That will create a thumbnail an after clicking this thumb it will open the gallery with your disered settings like lightbox.
If you need shortcodes for NGG 2.0 and higher versions please have a look on this helpfull documentation sites of NextGEN:
http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/nextgen-gallery-shortcodes/
Hi Dexter!
Thanks so much for taking the time to respond.
I had never played around with albums before, so thanks for pointing that out. While that is close to what I am after, that is not quite going to work for this particular site.
Sorry if my previous post was not clear. Let me add some more detail to explain what I am trying to achieve:
I would like to place a single image on a page, when the image is clicked a lightbox will open and display images from a gallery. I would like to be able to choose any image (or text) to be the link to the lightbox.
This hack got me the closest to achieving this:
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-single-images-to-slideshow?replies=3#post-2807918
However, the lightbox opens with the first image loaded twice (at the beginning and end). Also, the lightbox opens at the end of the image list so users have to click back towards the beginning.
Again, any suggestions would be much appreciated.
