Use Meta Slider and looking for lightbox functionality? This plugin combines Meta Slider and Simple Lightbox to display slides in a lightbox.
For use with the popular WordPress plugin MetaSlider allowing slides to be opened in a lightbox, using one of the following supported lightbox plugins:
We also support the following WordPress plugins, although they haven’t had recent updates, or sometimes go long periods without the authors fixing issues:
If you would like to use a lightbox plugin that isn’t supported you can add support by hooking into the metaslider_lightbox_supported_plugins filter. If you need assistance, please open an issue.
Screenshots
Toggle the lightbox in the advanced settings panel
The format is based on Keep a Changelog recommendations
and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
[1.13.1] – 12 Oct, 2021
- FIXED: Lightbox setting is broken if using MetaSlider v3.27.13, #18;
- CHANGED: Remove Extendify library;
[1.13.0] – 13 Jul, 2021
- CHANGED: Update the library.
[1.12.2] – 7 Jul, 2021
- FIXED: Bug fixes.
- ADDED: Adds option to disable the library.
[1.12.1] – 17 May, 2021
[1.12.0] – 28 Apr, 2021
- ADDED: Adds access to the Extendify template and pattern library.
[1.11.3] – 22 Aug, 2020
- CHANGED: Updates readme and team account info.
[1.11.2] – 09 Apr, 2020
- CHANGED: De-prioritizes recommendation for Responsive Lightbox by dFactory due to inactivity.
[1.11.1] – 14 Aug, 2019
- FIXED: Fixes issue where the setting wouldn’t save properly.
[1.11.0] – 8 Jul, 2019
- ADDED: Adds support for Gallery Manager Pro.
[1.10.4] – 30 Apr, 2019
- CHANGED: Adds unique class name to admin notices.
[1.10.3] – 04 Jan, 2019
- FIXED: Fixes a bug where WP-Featherlight would not load as a gallery.
[1.10.2] – 14 Jul, 2018
- CHANGED: Updates settings page for WP Lightbox 2 to match their update.
[1.10.1] – 16 Mar, 2018
- FIXED: Updates how lightbox plugins are checked for activation.
- FIXED: Addresses a bug that checks for previous slider settings.
- FIXED: Removes an incompatible lightbox plugin (duplicate name).
[1.10.0] – 16 Mar, 2018
- ADDED: Adds support for additional lightbox plugins.
- CHANGED: Refactors lightbox to clean up attribute function.
- CHANGED: Refactors various parts of the code to extract supported plugin data.
- CHANGED: Extracts the class MetaSliderLightboxPlugin to its own file.
- CHANGED: Changes the logic for check if the plugin is install and active.
- CHANGED: Adds a CSS class to the container that identifies the active lightbox plugin.
- CHANGED: Adds filters to let users manipulate the plugin use.
- CHANGED: Refactors lightbox to clean up attribute function.
[1.9.3] – 14 Nov, 2018
- CHANGED: Fix checks to slide URL.
- FIXED: FooBox Pro compatibility update.
- FIXED: Updates the FooBox Profile name.
- FIXED: Update Gallery Manager plugin settings.
[1.9.2] – 26 Jan, 2018
- CHANGED: Update translation strings.
- CHANGED: Adds warning message when no lightbox is active.
[1.9.0] – 28 Mar, 2017
- FIXED: Simple lightbox use slide caption instead of attachment caption.
[1.8.0] – 16 Mar, 2017
- FIXED: Update slide image URL to comply with new slide post type.
[1.7.0] – 09 May, 2016
- FIXED: Removes defunct Lightbox Plus plugin link (thanks to @Hendrik57).
[1.6.0] – 01 Apr, 2015
- ADDED: Adds support for FooBox Image Lightbox and WP Lightbox 2 Pro versions.
[1.5.0] – 30 Jan, 2015
- ADDED: Adds support for FooBox Image Lightbox and Responsive Lightbox by dFactory.
[1.4.0] – 15 Dec, 2014
- FIXED: Hides dependency warning in admin if WP Video Lightbox is activated (reported by and thanks to: vfontj).
[1.3.0] – 28 Oct, 2014
- ADDED: Adds support for Fancy Gallery lightbox plugin (suggested by and thanks to: Zim1).
[1.2.0] – 17 Sep, 2014
- ADDED: Support for additional lightbox plugins.
[1.1.0] – 22 Aug, 2014
- FIXED: Array assignment compatibility PHP < v5.4 (reported by and thanks to: andrea_montuori).
[1.0.0] – 15 Aug, 2014
