View image, YouTube video, Vimeo video, external page, inline HTML in lightbox. Add jQuery fancyBox lightbox effect to your WordPress site.
| Author: | naa986 (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 4.7 |
| WordPress version tested: | 6.5 |
| Plugin version: | 1.0.3 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 14-05-2017 |
| Last updated: | 02-04-2024 |
| Rating, %: | 100 |
| Rated by: | 2 |
| Plugin URI: | https://noorsplugin.com/wordpress-fancybox-pl... |
| Total downloads: | 10 330 |
| Active installs: | 900+ |
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WP fancybox plugin adds fancybox lightbox effect to your WordPress website. The lightbox looks great on desktop as well as mobile devices.
WP fancybox Features
- Responsive lightbox popup using fancybox
- Designed with a mobile first approach so it looks great on desktop, mobile and tablet devices
- Quick and easy setup
- Open lightbox popup from either a text link or a thumbnail image link
- YouTube video popup
- Vimeo video popup
- Use a simple shortcode to pop up content in lightbox
How to Use WP fancybox
Image in lightbox
Create a new post/page and use the following shortcode to create a text/image link which will open lightbox once clicked:
[wp_fancybox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" hyperlink="click here to pop up image"]
here, url is the link to the media file that you wish to open in lightbox and hyperlink is the anchor text/image.
[wp_fancybox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" hyperlink="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/thumb.jpg"]
YouTube video in lightbox
[wp_fancybox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video"]
Vimeo video in lightbox
[wp_fancybox_media url="https://vimeo.com/1084537" hyperlink="click here to pop up vimeo video"]
Caption in lightbox
[wp_fancybox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" caption="overlay image" hyperlink="click here to pop up image"]
Alternate Text for an Image
[wp_fancybox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" caption="overlay image" hyperlink="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/thumb.jpg" alt="Thumbnail image description"]
Custom CSS
You can specify your own CSS class in the shortcode to customize a text/image link.
[wp_fancybox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video" class="custom_class"]
Multiple CSS classes can be separated with a space. For example:
[wp_fancybox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video" class="custom_class custom_class2"]
For detailed documentation please visit the WordPress fancybox plugin page
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