Thanks David.
What I have now is this...
One the container Blog page I have the following:
<div id="dittoDisplay">
[!Ditto? &parents=`2` &tpl=`dittoArticlesTemplate` &display=`8` &paginate=`1` &paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`0` &dateFormat=`%b %d %Y` &tagData=`myTags` &tagDelimiter=`, ` &tagDocumentID=`6` &tplPaginatePage=`pageSplitter` &paginateSplitterCharacter=`|` &orderBy=`createdon DESC`!]
[+previous+] [+pages+] [+next+]
</div>
And the dittoArticlesTemplate I have this:
<div class="postdate"><span class="month">[+createdon:date=`%B`+]</span><span class="day">[+createdon:date=`%d`+]</span><span class="year">[+createdon:date=`%Y`+]</span></div>
<div class="ditto_item" id="ditto_item_[+id+]">
<h2 class="ditto_pageTitle"><[~[+id+]~]>[+pagetitle+]</h2>
<div class="ditto_documentInfo">by <strong>[+author+]</strong> <br/>with tags [+tagLinks+] </div>
<div class="ditto_introText"><span class="ditto_thumbNail">[+addThumb+]</span>[+content+]</div>
</div>
The MaxiGallery chunk I add depending on if I want a gallery in the individual posts or not. Not every post has a gallery:
<div id="galleryBox">
[!MaxiGallery? &display=`embedded` &embedtype=`slimbox` &pics_per_row=`5` &max_thumb_size=`80` &max_pic_size=`0` &thumb_use_dropshadow=`1` &disable_js_libs=`0` !]
</div>
I think this is something to do with the last line in the dittoArticlesTemplate. At the end there I have [+content+]. I used to have [+introtext+] and the MaxiGllery worked fine on all the individual pages. But now that we have deiced to show all the full content of the posts on the Blog page the gallery system stops working and shows the actual repeated snippet call instead???
I thought this might be a JS conflict so I tested removing the script from the menu animation but that did nothing to solve the gallery issue.