Customizing EvoGallery Output for Lightbox-Friendly Markup

EvoGallery becomes much easier to integrate when you shape the gallery markup around your lightbox instead of forcing the lightbox to guess.

EvoGallery can output the images you need, but frontend lightboxes often expect very specific classes or wrapper attributes. If the gallery works yet the lightbox does not bind, the fix is usually in the item template.

The idea

Customize the row template so the large image link carries the class your lightbox script is watching.

<a class="art-lightbox" href="[+images_dir+][+filename+]">
  <img src="[+thumbs_dir+][+filename+]" alt="[+title+]" />
</a>

Why templates matter here

EvoGallery is not the obstacle. The gallery already provides the data. The missing piece is the markup contract between the gallery output and the JavaScript lightbox layer.

As soon as you treat the gallery chunk as the integration point, the whole setup becomes predictable and easy to maintain.

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