Is it possible to get the image id of the currently displayed image in lightbox? Could be loaded anywhere in the DOM or an accessible JavaScript variable. I would search via the image url followed by _posts -> guid; however sometimes the guid is not accurate to the current image name in some situations. If there was a filter, JS code, or way to get the currently displayed Image Id I would be very happy.

Hello,

Do you mean image ID from WordPress database? If yes, the lightbox doesn't operate with IDs. It works with the generated HTML markup.

Regards,
ARI Soft

admin wrote:
Do you mean image ID from WordPress database?

Yes, the image id from the WordPress database. Regarding id in the HTML image code, you can see the raw id in the gallery DOM on the following page:
joshjourney.com/favorites

It is wrapped with a div class 'image-id' for each image. I can even make the image id load into the top div '.tiled-gallery-item' if that helps. I have full control of the DOM/outputs on the post (it's a custom theme I made). I'm skilled enough to perform basic JavaScript/PHP operations but struggle with being able to have things like image title/caption in the lightbox. If I had the id placed within the lightbox this would allow me to write a hashChange jQuery script that checks if int, send to php file, check in php if int, then load author info, publish date, and other data back into a custom box on each image. If I can get image DOM elements/attributes into lightbox I could even bypass the need of another php file.

The following JS code can be used to get ID of current slide:



Regards,
ARI Soft

For some reason I'm struggling to have it work with alerts, but I have gotten it to work. This comes greatly appreciated. Thank you.