Lightbox WP Plugin

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Permalink Reply by Earth.org on April 2, 2009 at 7:54am

What does a lightbox plugin do?

Permalink Reply by Daniel M. Perez on April 2, 2009 at 12:04pm

When you go to a site, click on a picture, then the screen goes slightly dark/opaque and the picture opens in the middle, that's a lightbox effect.

Permalink Reply by Gary Arndt on April 6, 2009 at 5:37am

I had a very hard time getting Lightbox to work with Internet Explorer. I now just use a similar feature in SmugMug

Permalink Reply by Daniel M. Perez on April 6, 2009 at 5:41am

Someone recommended me this one, called Lightbox, and it's been working like a charm.

http://stimuli.ca/lightbox/

Permalink Reply by Neil Johnston on August 27, 2010 at 12:36am

I've had good luck with WP-PrettyPhoto on my sites (http://OutExplorer.com). Seems robust and works well across browsers. You can install it from your admin panel or jump to it on the WP site: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-prettyphoto/

Permalink Reply by Joe Harkins on September 16, 2010 at 8:50pm

My favorite is the Fancy Zoom plugin. I like that when it zooms an imgae, the page remains in the background. A click closes the expoanded image and you are still on the page.

You can see it in action at www.sprangleblog.com or www.twoweeksintuscany.com or www.onemonthinmanly.com.

A word of caution. If you run WordPress 3.01 or upgrade to it, Fancy Zoom, and a number of similar plugins, simply stop working. It's been at least a month since that happened but there has been no notice of an updating of the plugin to restore its functionality.

Otherwise, it's very easy to use. Just make sure that when you add an image, or a gallery of images to a page, you click on the "link to image" button near the bottom of the configuration screen.