Hi there,

let me start my telling you have the best wordpress theme out there!

I am a photographer and my goal is to showcase several projects (or portfolios, if you prefer) on my website.

For each portfolio, I would like to have a masony grid of images that I can click on and showcase on a black background with the option of going fullscreen.

I started by trying out the columned portfolio type, which gives me the option of having the grid (see attachment 01), but when I click on the image I can still see the grid in the background (see attachment 02) instead of the black background with the option of going fullscreen.

So I tried the lightbox portfolio type with a gallery of 30 images. The problem with the lightbox type is that the portfolio showcases only the featured image fullscreen with an "open in lightbox" button in the center (see attachment 3). The attachment 4 is exactly how I would like to have my single images appear when I click on them: black background, option of going fullscreen, and thumbnails in the bottom by clicking the icon (it's perfect).

Is there a way to showcase the images of a lightbox in a masony grid instead of having just one featured image? Or (other way around), is it possible to use the columned portfolio type with the option of clicking on the single images and have a black background with the option of going fullscreen (like in attachment 4).

Last, but not least, I am working on my website offline on my local computer (through MAMP), since I need to keep running my old website in the mean time. Do I just need to copy the full content of my wp folders to my ftp when I'm done? Or is there another procedure?

Thanks a lot for your support.

Best,

Gianni

Hi Art,

thanks for your reply. I actually need to keep my old website running at my domain, and I'm having problems creating another directory or sub-domain where to transfer my new Kalium wordpress site. Did you see the screenshots I've attached? It is possible for you to give some tips by looking on those?

Thanks

Best,

Gianni

Hi Art,

I had already thought about the solution you're suggesting me, but I don't think creating one portfolio item for each image is really a solution. I have an average of 20-30 images for each one of my dozen projects. And by doing so, I wouldn't be able to create a homepage with a masonry grid of the projects (since each project would be split into dozens of single image portfolios instead of being reunited under the same portfolio item).

Is there a plugin or a CSS edit that can help me reach my goal? Or any other solution that allows me to have a masonry grid of the images of one portfolio that are individually showcased on a blackbackground that can go fullscreen? I really need to solve this problem.

The other problem with the lightbox portfolio type is that if I add a text block in the visual composer, it won't appear in the published page (see attached).

Hi Gianni,

Just wanted to let you know I'm having the exact same problem you are. As photographers, we know there is often a demand from clients/bookers to just see everything at a glance (rather than in categories) on the page. Wish I knew this before buying this (visually stunning but functionally insufficient) theme and disabling my previous theme.

Best of luck.

-R

Hi Arlind

Afraid you're asking the wrong person. I mostly use my decade-plus of front-end dev work now to just make tweaks on website themes I purchase for my photography site ;).

That said, this is a crucial issue, and we photographers would greatly appreciate a fix in the near future. In the mean time, I suggest updating your photography demo to make this deficiency a little clearer. Right now, it looks like it supports nesting a gallery in the main gallery among your other images in a Masonry grid, when it actually forces you to create individual galleries for every image.

Thanks,

R

Hi Arlind,

I don't think the issue is the specific lightbox functionality as much as it is the relationship between Portfolio and Lightbox. Having 1 thumbnail launch a lightbox with multiple images is great, but I think a lot of us would appreciate even more the ability to create a Lightbox portfolio of 20 images, and the Masonry grid generated includes all 20 thumbnails.

Then if a page needs to have 5 such portfolios, then it'll show all 100 thumbnails. Otherwise, having 1 portfolio support numerous images is a viable solution. Right now the Masonry Grid item in Visual Composer generates thumbs for all its images, but won't let you add more than 10.

Hope I explained it better this time.

Cheers,

-Remi

Hi Arlind,

No, I mean Masonry grid tiles, not lightbox thumbnails. I just mean on the page, we should be able to see a tile for every image, rather than just one per portfolio item. Alternately, if adding Masonry Grids directly from Visual Composer, I'd like to be able to add much more than the 10-image limit currently enforced in this theme.

Thoughts?

-R