All of the gallery Blocs I’ve seen just have simple “lightbox” expansion, with the option to add a caption. In Sandvox, each gallery thumbnail would expand to a new page where you could put lots of text and more images. This is straightforward to do in Blocs by using Navigate to Page instead of Lightbox, BUT with Sandvox you’d also get Forward, Back and Up (back to Gallery) buttons:
Is there a way to do this in Blocs or are there third-party Blocs that have this functionality?
Hi Julia,
I haven’t seen image navigation in a design like that in about 15 years ! I am not sure how to do something like that in Blocs to be honest - but I wouldn’t want to go back to older styes personally.
I would do it in Lightbox and have left and right and close to go back to menu - this seems to be the modern way and standard way visitors will expect to be honest.
I do not think you will find any third party designs going back to this style - but I am sure in Blocs you could create it somehow!!
But Lightbox only gives me an enlarged copy of the image - I need to open a page to tell an entire story about each image.
You could use Volt CMS blog function therefore.
Yeah using Volt blog features would be perfect! and great for SEO too.
Volt CMS doesn’t seem to offer any advantage over what I’m doing now (linking from a Gallery Bloc to a new page), unless I’m missing something. The demo doesn’t show forward/back/home buttons.
See the Buttons on the bottom of the page (prev / next post).
When you open the lightbox controls there is an option to open another image or a an alternative image or video the alternative image could be in informative info with extra image
