@stuart141simon

Thank you for your your suggestion.

In Small Screen Mode (where screen real estate if often limited), the caption area and Button Bar are overlaid on top of the image but their visibility can be toggled on and off (so that the image can be viewed on its own) by tapping the screen.
However, if you like, you could set captionPosition to a non-OVERLAY value, set buttonBarPosition="TOP" and then set screenMode="LARGE" to have the gallery displayed in Large Screen Mode on all devices and in all browsers.
By doing so, the caption area and Button Bar will never obscure the main images (in any device or browser).

I understand that this is not an ideal solution to your suggestion (in Large Screen Mode, thumbnails are displayed alongside the main images taking up more screen real estate, which is why Small Screen Mode exists) but it might be suitable for some other users reading this thread.

No, unfortunately not.
The code which handles the direct linking functionality is buried within the 'juicebox.js' JavaScript file which is packed and obfuscated and cannot be modified.

Thank you for the screenshots demonstrating your problem.
Please see this FAQ:
My Juicebox gallery shows too much space above or below the main image, how do I fix this?

The problem is one of aspect ratios.
With a responsive gallery, you essentially have no control over the aspect ratio of your gallery. It will depend on the dimensions of the user's browser window. However, the aspect ratio of your images remains constant (as long as they are not cropped).
In your large monitor screenshot, your gallery fills the viewport and your images are scaled as large as possible without cropping. If they were scaled any larger, then cropping would occur. (If you reduce the browser window height, you will see the space above and below the images decrease.)

Possible solutions would be to:
(1) Fix your gallery's dimensions so that the aspect ratio of the gallery's image area always matches that of the images themselves.
(2) Set imageScaleMode="FILL" so that the images fill the image area (although the images may be cropped).
(3) Reduce the height of your gallery so that the space above and below the images is minimized.

Otherwise, you might need to accept that your gallery may not look exactly as you would like it to be in every browser window shape. Juicebox does its best to adapt to all screen sizes but it's difficult to make a gallery displaying images of a certain aspect ratio fill browser windows of different shapes.

Also, make sure that your images are at least 1920 x 1080 in size so that they need to be dynamically scaled down slightly by Juicebox when the gallery is displayed. This will ensure that your images are always displayed as large as possible within the image area.
Using the default setting of imageScaleMode="SCALE_DOWN", small images are not scaled up so if your images are not large enough to fill the image area, then they will not be scaled up and there may be more space surrounding them than is necessary.
You could set imageScaleMode="SCALE" to scale small images up to fill the image area but this would decrease their visual quality. It would be better to feed Juicebox larger images.

I hope these notes help.

No problem at all!

Please see this FAQ:
How do I allow or prevent users from saving gallery images?

It is not possible to right-click and save an image in a Juicebox gallery (and there is no direct download functionality) but what you could do is set showOpenButton="TRUE" (in JuiceboxBuilder-Pro's 'Customize -> Lite' section) to display the 'Open Image' button on the Button Bar. When the button is clicked, the image will be displayed in a new tab and can be downloaded via the browser's right-click 'Save Image As...' option.

It would be much easier to implement direct download functionality if all browsers supported the HTML 5 'download' attribute but this is not yet the case. Please see here for a list of browsers which currently support this feature.
If you would like to try this (though it will only work in the browsers listed in the link above), you could include a link within each image's caption using the 'download' attribute such as the following:

<a href="images/wide.jpg" download="wide.jpg">Click here to download image.</a>

The href="images/wide.jpg" part is the path to the file which will be downloaded. You can use an absolute path (such as 'http://www.example.com/gallery/images/wide.jpg') or a relative path (as in my example above). If using a relative path, it will be relative to the HTML page containing the gallery's embedding code.

The download="wide.jpg" part is the name which will be given to the file when the user downloads it. (It does not have to be the same as the image's filename, although it should have the same file extension.)

The Click here to download image. part is the text that will be displayed on screen as the caption which, when clicked, will download the file.

Please remember that this will only work in certain browsers and visitors to your web site using browsers which do not support this HTML 5 attribute (such as Internet Explorer and Safari) may wonder why this feature in your gallery does not work as expected. (You may wish to add a note somewhere on your web page to say that direct download functionality is available only in Firefox, Chrome and Opera.)

The suggestions above will work equally well with Juicebox-Lite (the free version) and Juicebox-Pro so you could try things out with Juicebox-Lite before purchasing Juicebox-Pro.
Juicebox-Lite can be downloaded from this web page.

I hope this helps.

No problem if you want to move on but please feel free to post your web gallery's URL if you'd like me to take a look.

There might be something else on your web page alongside your gallery which is causing the problem.
WordPress pages tend to have a lot of content and can load a lot of external JavaScript files. You might like to try temporarily disabling all plugins other than WP-Juicebox and then checking out your gallery's web page in Chrome  to see if the problem still occurs (or if the problem is perhaps related to another plugin).

Also, please make sure that you are using the latest version of Juicebox (v1.4.4.2) to ensure that any bugs from previous versions are not contributing to your problem.
You can download the latest version of WP-Juicebox from the plugin's support page here.

Again, no problem at all if you want to leave things as they are but Juicebox is pretty flexible. There are a couple of hundred different configuration options and there is also an API to allow the embedding web page to interact with the gallery.
If you find there is something you'd like to do with Juicebox but haven't yet managed to do so, you can let me know.
I might be able to help (or at least confirm whether what you are looking to achieve is possible or not).

@jvp

Unfortunately, there is no way to extract EXIF data via JuiceboxBuilder-Pro or WP-Juicebox.
(JuiceboxBuilder-Pro has the ability to extract the IPTC Document Title for the image titles and the IPTC Description for the image captions.)

The only way to integrate EXIF data into image titles or captions would be to use the Lightroom plugin.
Lightroom has the ability to extract whatever IPTC or EXIF data you like and use it for image titles or captions.
You can build up an image title or caption using the Text Template Editor (see this screenshot).
(This is a feature of Lightroom itself rather than the Juicebox plugin.)

However, I appreciate you taking the time to post your suggestion again.
I do not know which suggestions will be implemented in future versions but this is certainly the best place for all ideas.
Thank you.

It sounds like you have been able to resolve most of your problems.

Unfortunately, I don't know of an easy way to reinstate interface settings from a previous version of the plugin.

Restarting Lightroom with the new plugin in place should have been enough (there should have been be no need to reboot your computer) but I'm glad you've got the new version up and running.

I'm glad that things seem to have settled down and that you have reinstated your settings.
If you continue to experience difficulties, please let me know and I'll try to help out if I can.

In your http://www.reisedampfer.de/html5/norwegen_2014/ page, your gallery's embedding code uses the following line:

backgroundColor: 'rgba(204,204,204,1)'

However, when you embed the gallery in your http://www.reisedampfer.de/app595898963 … wegen-2014 page, the embedding code uses the following line (resulting in a white background):

backgroundColor: "rgba(255,255,255,1)"

Change the backgroundColor in the embedding code to either rgba(204,204,204,1) (to match the background color of your page) or rgba(0,0,0,0) (for the gallery's background to be fully transparent so that your own page's background shines through).

If you want to set a different color for the expanded gallery, use the expandedBackgroundColor configuration option (in JuiceboxBuilder-Pro's 'Customize -> Color' section).
Your gallery does not currently use an expandedBackgroundColor so the expanded background color will be the same as the normal (unexpanded) background color.

I'm glad you've been able to resolve your problem.
Thank you for letting me know.

Rotation can certainly be challenging at the best of times and there seems to be little consistency between programs, even between browsers. (I've seen examples of images which display differently in Chrome and Firefox.)

Often, the best course of action is to strip the EXIF information (at least the orientation flag) from the image and then rotate it until it is visibly correct.

Please post suggestions for future versions in the Feature Requests forum thread.
This keeps all the ideas together and ensures that they are not overlooked by the developers.
Thank you.

@ion.rogozea

Thank you for your suggestions.
Unfortunately, there is no built-in way to navigate between galleries within Juicebox.
(We have Showkase as an automated way to index and organize multiple galleries.)

Perhaps the easiest way to do something similar would be to include a link in the last image's caption.
For example:

<caption><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.example.com/gallery2/index.html" target="_self">Click here to view Gallery #2.</a>]]></caption>

First of all, I'd recommend upgrading to the latest version (v1.4.4.2) as many bugs have been fixed since v1.4.3.
Please see the Version History for a list of changes between versions.
Instructions for upgrading can be found on the Upgrading Juicebox support page.

If you want to disable the auto hide functionality of the image overlay overlay, set inactivityTimeout="0" (in the 'Customize -> Main Image' section).

If you want the image overlay to always be displayed, set showImageOverlay="ALWAYS" instead of its default value of AUTO ('Customize -> Main Image').

If you want the image navigation buttons to always be displayed, set showImageNav="ALWAYS" ('Customize -> Main Image'). The image navigation buttons can be positioned relative to the STAGE or the IMAGE via the imageNavPosition configuration option (also in the 'Customize -> Main Image' section).

I hope this helps.

For reference, a complete list of configuration options can be found here.

If you continue to experience difficulties, please post the URL to your gallery so that I can take a look.
Also, let me know what you see and what you expect (or hope) to see so that I can hopefully help further.
(I'm not sure which button you mean when you say "all of the buttons except the first".)
Thank you.