WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Change galleries link http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/change-galleries-link WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Change galleries link en Wed, 22 May 2013 18:14:59 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 valentlau on "Change galleries link" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/change-galleries-link#post-772832 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:06:33 +0000 valentlau 772832@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Staff are no help, can't be done apparently.

]]> airodyssey on "Change galleries link" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/change-galleries-link#post-771259 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:53:55 +0000 airodyssey 771259@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi. I see the topic hasn't been responded by one of the volunteers. If you haven't obtained an answer and if you still need assistance, I suggest you contact staff directly: http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

]]> valentlau on "Change galleries link" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/change-galleries-link#post-770841 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:23:41 +0000 valentlau 770841@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Really, why is this so stupid? No usability testing was done at all?

]]> valentlau on "Change galleries link" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/change-galleries-link#post-767695 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:34:12 +0000 valentlau 767695@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ So. Impossible?

]]> valentlau on "Change galleries link" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/change-galleries-link#post-757690 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:07:19 +0000 valentlau 757690@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Our galleries are like [gallery link="file" etc etc]
I used to have all [gallery] because I wanted gallery clicks to go to somewhere you can click 'next' instead of a dead end image.
But now the carousel is added. That link becomes the 'permalink'. The user is already able to click 'next' w/ the carousel. If they want to view the full size, what can they do?

The permalink takes them to the attachment page. It probably shows the pic smaller than the carousel did. The user is already given up at this point, no use trying to point them to the 1234x483 link in tiny letters.

So it makes more sense now to use
[gallery link="file"]
carousel 'permalink' links to the file. OK not really, but short of having a new link for full size that's what'll do.

So how do we change 500 posts from [gallery] to [gallery link="file"]? To do manually how many clicks will it take? Surely there must be something smarter? This should be a per-blog setting anyway, unless you want your posts to be as inconsistent as possible.

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