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Gallery Block: "Navigation Button Type" always listed in Settings, even when it makes no sense #79133
Description
Description
We disable the Enlarge on Click functionality through theme.json (lightbox['allowEditing'] = false, lightbox['enabled'] false).
However, the menu item for "Navigation Button Type" still appears in the 3 dot menu next to Settings for the Gallery Block. There's no way to make these controls appear.
Step-by-step reproduction instructions
- Disable Image Block's "enlarge on click" functionality
{ "settings": { "blocks": { "core/image": { "lightbox": { "allowEditing": false, "enabled": false } } } } } - Insert a Gallery Block.
- Click on the 3 dot menu next to its Settings, and see that "Navigation Button Type" is listed (grayed out).Note that I've tried a ton of different ways to try to disable this, and don't believe its currently possible, such as filtering the gallery block's supports['interactivity'] etc, but no luck
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Environment info
- WordPress 7.0, Chrome
Please confirm that you have searched existing issues in the repo.
- Yes
Please confirm that you have tested with all plugins deactivated except Gutenberg.
- Yes
Please confirm which theme type you used for testing.
- Block
- Classic
- Hybrid (e.g. classic with theme.json)
- Not sure
Activity
hanneslsm commentedon Jun 12, 2026
I also realized this and was just about to create a new issue. Great timing!
While I agree with you that the navigation button types should be shown when the lightbox is disabled globally, I think we also shouldn't even display the settings on a gallery block level when the lightbox is not enabled.
ishitaj34 commentedon Jun 12, 2026
@hanneslsm That's a good point! My PR addresses the specific menu item, but I agree there may be a broader UX improvement here.
t-hamano commentedon Jun 13, 2026
@hanneslsm Could you provide more details on this? The Gallery block should not display settings if there are no images with the lightbox enabled.
gutenberg/packages/block-library/src/gallery/edit.js
Lines 767 to 768 in eed4667
hanneslsm commentedon Jun 15, 2026
I think, on gallery block level, we can hide
Navigation Button Typein the inspector when the link is set toNonet-hamano commentedon Jun 15, 2026
This can be a bit confusing, but the link setting for a Gallery block is not a reflection of its actual state. Instead, it's merely a tool to collectively edit the link settings of the images within. Therefore, even if the Gallery block's link setting is set to 'None,' there might still be images within that have the lightbox enabled.
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hanneslsm commentedon Jun 15, 2026
Good point! Well then, let's keep it as it is.
Thanks for clarifying :)