Implementing lightGallery in Blowfish 🔦

[jeremejazz]

I just implemented lightGallery to my website. You can see it here on my post.

I added this because I was having difficulty with getting medium zoom to work on mobile and I also needed to allow users to zoom in further. I just followed the implementation of medium zoom by overriding blowfish's layout partials.

Here are the changes I did on my site to implement lightGallery. jeremejazz/jereme.me#34

I'm also using the image shortcode from FixIt which is also uses DoIt's image partial plugin for handling image resources (They are both using MIT Licenses). This also supports remote caching and optimization.

To avoid conflicts, imageZoom needs to be disabled since both of them would open at the same time

disableImageZoom = true

I haven't tested this with Blowfish's gallery shortcode yet but it would probably not work since it needs the lightgallery class to be selected and I think it needs medium zoom to be enabled.

Sorry I'm not an expert in theme design and I was just tinkering around.

[ZhenShuo2021]

Sorry, I mistakenly thought this was a feature request. Thank you for sharing!

There is a related issue #2430.

The problem is that lightGallery is licensed under GPLv3, which is not compatible with our MIT license.

[jeremejazz]

Thanks for informing me. yeah I forgot to check the license of LG since some themes use it but this is just for sharing.

[ZhenShuo2021]

My bad! I missed that context. Posts like this are super helpful. Looking forward to more 👍

(FYI: I've also tested a PhotoSwipe version in #2572 if you're interested)

[jeremejazz]

This is very helpful. I see you also encountered the same issue. I wish I have seen earlier but I might have searched with the wrong keywords. I guess I'll have to use the extended-footer next time. Thanks.