Paginating EvoGallery Output and Opening Images with Fancybox

Gallery pages often need both browsing and viewing: pagination for the list and a lightbox for the image itself.

The donor described a gallery where only part of the image set should appear on each page, while the thumbnails still opened through a lightbox such as Fancybox.

The practical goal

show a limited number of images per page
keep page navigation visible and predictable
open the selected image without forcing a full page transition

This is a good reminder that galleries have two separate concerns: the listing of items and the viewing of one item. Pagination solves the first. Fancybox or another lightbox solves the second. Keeping those concerns separate usually leads to a much cleaner gallery implementation.

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