Using External Media Fields

The theme extends the images attachments panel with an additional field named External URL.

To access that field interface, navigate to the WordPress admin panel and open the Media page.

Click on any image in the media library.

In the image details popup, take a look at the External URL panel in the bottom right corner.

The field accepts any URLs, whether they belong to your website domain or point to a 3rd-party resource.

Here are the use cases of that field.

Creating Masonry Grid with the Pages Links

By default, the theme's Masonry Grid Elementor widget opens a lightbox with the full-size images. You can change this behavior under the Settings tab in the widget options.

Masonry Grid widget provided by the theme core plugin

Now, clicking on that image will open a page with the URL you've specified in the External URL field of that image. Make sure to adjust the Open link in new tab checkbox if needed.

Adding Remote Videos to Albums

When editing an album from the admin panel, select an image and assign a remote video URL. YouTube and Vimeo sources are supported.

Don't forget to save changes after editing.

Afterwards, you need to allow embedding the external media content into the lightbox. You can do this while in Edit with Elementor mode in the widget options under the Media Source tab.

Make sure to enable this toggle in the album widget options.

Once you open an album in the lightbox, you will see an embedded video player instead of the original image from the media library.

Vimeo player inside the album lightbox.

Adding Embedded Content to Lightbox

All non-video external URLs are considered as iFrames. These are also possible to embed into the lightbox.

There is a 3D tour example page displayed in the lightbox.

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Make sure that the resource you'd like to embed allows itself to be displayed in an iFrame. If it doesn't, you'll get an error in the JavaScript console.