The Lightbox Gallery plugin changes the view of galleries to the lightbox.
| Author: | Hiroaki Miyashita (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 2.5 |
| WordPress version tested: | 5.8 |
| Plugin version: | 0.9.4 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 28-04-2008 |
| Last updated: | 17-07-2021
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Plugin URI: | https://wpgogo.com/development/lightbox-galle... |
| Total downloads: | 1 079 460 |
| Active installs: | 20 000+ |
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Importance:
From 0.7.1, the default view changed to Colorbox due to the license regulation by the plugin directory. If you would prefer the prior Lightbox to Colorbox, you need to get the script from the setting page.
The Lightbox Gallery plugin changes the view of galleries to the lightbox.
- Lightbox display of Gallery
- Tooltip view of caption of images
- Displays the associated metadata with images
- Divides Gallery into several pages
- Extends the default Gallery options
- Additional settings are set in the option page
- Switch to the Highslide JS display
You can also make regular images appear in a lightbox. See Faq.
Localization
- Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) – Emmanuel Carvalho
- Belorussian (by_BY) – ilyuha
- Czech (cs_CZ) – Petufo
- Spanish (es_ES) – Daniel Tarrero
- Danish (da_DK) – Jacob Voldby
- German (de_DE) – Michael Wruck and Tacitus Media
- Farsi (fa_IR) – Ehsan Razavi
- French (fr_FR) – BenLeTibetain
- Hindi (hi_IN) – Outshine Solutions
- Croatian (hr) – Tomislav Konestabo
- Hungarian (hu_HU) – Zsolt Vereb and Feriman
- Italian (it_IT) – Gianni Diurno
- Japanese (ja) – Hiroaki Miyashita
- Dutch (nl_NL) – Peter Arends
- Polish (pl_PL) – Otmar
- Romanian (ro_RO) – Anunturi Jibo
- Russian (ru_RU) – Fat Cow
- Slovak (sk_SK) – Viliam Brozman
- Swedish (sv_SE) – Anders Martensson
- Turkish (tr_TR) – Hakan Demiray
- Ukrainian (uk_UA) – Vitalij Lew
- Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) – leonanu
If you have translated into your language, please let me know.
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How to use
How to use this plugin is basically the same as the way to add which has been adopted
by over WordPress 2.5. Lightbox Gallery plugin automatically converted the default view of gallery
into the lightbox view. Photo captions are displayed as tooltips. Photo descriptions are displayed
when the lightbox pops up.
Advanced settings
There are three additional options to extend the shorttag .
- lightboxsize
The image size when the lightbox pops up. The default is medium, but you can change to full.
- meta
Defines whether the exif information is displayed. The default is false.
If you want to show the photo info, set true. The exif shown on the lightbox includes camera body,
aperture, focal length, shutter speed, and created timestamp.
- class
Adds a class attribute of the gallery. The default is gallery1.
- nofollow
Adds the attribute, rel=”nofollow”. The default is false.
- from, num
Defines from which and how many photos are displayed.
If the number of photos is over that of num, the navigation will be shown.
You can use the navigation option almost same as the wp_link_pages function.
- pagenavi
If you would like not to show the navigation, set 0. The default is 1.
- colorbox_settings
You can set the additional settings for Colorbox. See Colorbox official site.
Known Issues / Bugs
Uninstall
- Deactivate the plugin
- That’s it! ????