# 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 WordPress admin panel and open Media page.

Click on any image in the media library.
In the image details popup take a look at External URL panel in the bottom right conrer.
The field accepts any URLs wherether they belong to your website domain or point to a 3rd-party resource.

Here are the use cases of that field.

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

Masonry Grid widget provided by the theme core plugin

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

# Adding Remote Videos to Albums

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

Don't forget to save changes after the editing

Afterwards you need to allow to embed the external media content into lightbox. You can do this being in Edit with Elementor mode in the widget options under 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 embeded video player instead of the original image from media library.

Vimeo player inside the album lightbox

# Adding an Embeded Content to Lightbox

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

There is a 3D tour example page appeared in lightbox

TIP

Make sure that the resource you'd like to embed does allow to display itself in iFrame. If it doesn't – you'll get an error in JavaScript console.