WooCommerce Product Gallery: Swap Featured Image with Selected Thumbnail - wordpress

Question

Woocommerce displays the product gallery on a lightbox or new tab by default. I would like to display the product gallery on the box where the product image is displayed. I tried WooCommerce Dynamic Gallery but the LITE version doesn't allow me to display all the product gallery images on each product. Also, it displays the image on the product description.
Can anyone suggest me a wordpress plugin or coding that can display the product gallery dynamically ? Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

It's possible with some straightforward jquery (see below). You'll also need to override the default lightbox that WooCommerce includes for the gallery.
I believe that it's possible to disable it from the admin under WC -> Settings -> Products -> Display. But you can also remove the styles and scripts directly.
I haven't tested this code on a fresh install of WooCommerce--this is some modified code from a site with a heavily customized product gallery that includes video support.
You'll need to include this in your theme's functons.php file, etc. etc.
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'wc_remove_lightboxes', 99 );
/**
* Remove WooCommerce default prettyphoto lightbox
*/
function wc_remove_lightboxes() {
// Styles
wp_dequeue_style( 'woocommerce_prettyPhoto_css' );
// Scripts
wp_dequeue_script( 'prettyPhoto' );
wp_dequeue_script( 'prettyPhoto-init' );
wp_dequeue_script( 'fancybox' );
wp_dequeue_script( 'enable-lightbox' );
}
/* Customize Product Gallery */
/**
* Click on thumbnail to view image for single product page gallery. Includes
* responsive image support using 'srcset' attribute introduced in WP 4.4
* #link https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/11/10/responsive-images-in-wordpress-4-4/
*/
add_action( 'wp_footer', 'wc_gallery_override' );
function wc_gallery_override()
{
// Only include if we're on a single product page.
if (is_product()) {
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
( function( $ ) {
// Override default behavior
$('.woocommerce-main-image').on('click', function( event ) {
event.preventDefault();
});
// Find the individual thumbnail images
var thumblink = $( '.thumbnails .zoom' );
// Add our active class to the first thumb which will already be displayed
//on page load.
thumblink.first().addClass('active');
thumblink.on( 'click', function( event ) {
// Override default behavior on click.
event.preventDefault();
// We'll generate all our attributes for the new main
// image from the thumbnail.
var thumb = $(this).find('img');
// The new main image url is formed from the thumbnail src by removing
// the dimensions appended to the file name.
var photo_fullsize = thumb.attr('src').replace('-300x300','');
// srcset attributes are associated with thumbnail img. We'll need to also change them.
var photo_srcset = thumb.attr('srcset');
// Retrieve alt attribute for use in main image.
var alt = thumb.attr('alt');
// If the selected thumb already has the .active class do nothing.
if ($(this).hasClass('active')) {
return false;
} else {
// Remove .active class from previously selected thumb.
thumblink.removeClass('active');
// Add .active class to new thumb.
$(this).addClass('active');
// Fadeout main image and replace various attributes with those defined above. Once the image is loaded we'll make it visible.
$('.woocommerce-main-image img').css( 'opacity', '0' ).attr('src', photo_fullsize).attr('srcset', photo_srcset).attr('alt', alt).load(function() {
$(this).animate({ opacity: 1 });
});
return false;
}
});
} )( jQuery );
</script>
<?php
}
}