jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries

DISCONTINUATION NOTICE:

Development on this plugin has been retired and discontinued in favor of Jetpack and it’s Carousel module, the same one that runs on WordPress.com.

In my opinion it’s a much better lightbox functionality and provides a better feature set than my plugin.

Description:

jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries makes the native WordPress galleries use a lightbox script called ColorBox to display the fullsize images.

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824 thoughts on “jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries”

  2. Love your plugin, but for this particular client they want to display the large thumbnails, and there are many many photos which will make the webpage extremely long. I was wondering whether there’s a way to divide up the thumbnails into different pages (like nextGEN Gallery). Please advice. Thank you so much in advance!

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  6. Hi, great plugin, works like a charm and its a clean design. I am wondering how would I resize the image that opens in lightbox?

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  8. is it possible to set the lightbox so that expanded photos cannot be easily downloaded by right-clicking on them?

  9. I have been using your plug in for quite a while. Today I did a plug in update and wordpress update….the “slide show” no longer appears, i realy liked this feature, is their a way to get it to work. I see in the settings I have 5 theme options however none of them brought up the “slide show” feature…as a matter of fact the other themes looked dated,..sort off

  10. Hi!

    Thank you for the great plugin, but there is a big problem (for me). The plugin works perfectly (WordPress 3.0.5) until I activate the plugin “WP Tweet Button”. After that, wordpress don’t show any images when I create a posts or page. I can upload an image, but I get only a white page. And in the upload-window I can’t see the image too. If I deactivate your plugin OR WP Tweet Button, all works fine.

    Is there a workaround or something? Or maybe this will be fixed in the next version?

    Thank you,
    Nelson

  11. Good plug in 🙂 Thank’s. jQuery is very good to make gallery ( i had try to do this with Flash but very difficult and more heavy ). This technology change the webmaster life ^^ I will test soon for next project.
    Thank’s again. Virginie.

  12. I’ve been using the plugin and love it. I wanted to suggest a new feature. This is just something to add to the “wish list”. I had a user comment on a photo, not the post. I assume they were able to do this because they viewed the post on a mobile device, but that’s beside the point. What I suggest is an small graphical icon overlay that indicates that the image has comments available. Clicking the small icon would then show a div tag overlay with the comments. Again, just throwing that out there. Thanks again!

  13. I like the suggestion of an additional icon added to the image somehow. I’m less interested in indicating comments on an image, I’ve found much of that to be spam. Instead, is there a way the icon or watermark could indicate “lightbox” functionality? Something that says “click to enlarge” for instance? Just a thought.

  14. It seems that you could add the “click to enlarge” overlay to the thumbnail with CSS. I don’t imagine you would want that on every gallery image, just the one-off images that have the a.lightbox style. Of course that could supported via the plug-in as well.

    As far as comment spam, whether on images or posts its only there if you let it. Askmet does a great job for me. Instead of just comments, this could also be the description associated with the media. That’s one field that is very under-utilized. I think that showing the description (or optionally comments) in a div overlay (on the large lightbox popup) when the icon is clicked or hovered over would be pretty cool. Sorry about the run-on there.

    Again, just suggestions Alex. It’s just such a functional plugin that it’s tough not to get excited about possibilities.

  15. Great suggestions/comments. I’ll have to attempt this with CSS. It still like to see it as part of the built in themes for the plugin. And I completely agree about the capabilities of the plug in, it’s fantastic.

  16. Hello every body,

    Thanks for this wordpress plugin ! it’s very cool.

    After having some problems to make it work on my personal theme (the image didn’t load with the plugin but normaly…)
    I discover that introducing in the header this :

    [code]<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo(‘pingback_url’); ?>" /><?php wp_head(); ?>[/code]

    make it work. I think it can help some people in need.
    Sorry for my english (i’m french)
    bye

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  21. Hi!
    Is it possible to open only one image with jquery lightbox for native galleries?
    If not can you please tell me another plug in which can handle it?
    Thank you!

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  27. thanks for this valuable plugin. Tried some light box plugin for my client’s website. But fianly got your plugin worthfull..

    thanks so much for this plugin

    Shajjad

  28. Hi, I was using this plugin for my portfolio on my site & it was working beautifully, but when I updated wordpress it quit working. Now all I’m getting is a black box with a spinning circle, never loads & you can’t close it. I’ve tried a couple things to get it to work {uninstall, reinstall, making the pictures smaller, etc.} but I haven’t had any luck. Is this possibly a ‘the plugin needs to be updated to work’ thing?

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  32. I want to know the code for how to add multiple images and when we click on image it should say next button following the next image

  33. Nice plugin! I have been stressed out the past week or so trying to find a way to implement a gallery for WordPress only to find out that WordPress has that feature built-in. I thought it was quite ugly having WordPress take the users away from the blog page when someone clicks on the picture. I then found your plugin and implemented it without any problems. It works great! Thank you so much for taking the time to create this nifty plugin.

  34. Thanks for your plugin! Is it possible to display the discription of the images in the lightbox?

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  37. Is there actually a way to not display the image description in Lightbox? Some of the pictures in my gallery are not that big and so when the images show up within Lightbox, the text on the bottom looks cramped together. For example, the text “Image 4 of 5” will be squished and combined together with my image description.

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  39. Hi, I just installed this and added [gallery] to a post, it added the thumbnails but when I click on it, it just opens the image on a new tab, no lightbox feature?? Any ideas?

  40. Hi,

    Please help to set code to display full size image. Please share me require update in jquery.colorbox-min to show full size image

    • My plugin tells the lightbox to resize the image to fit on your screen. It’s not very helpful you have to scroll around to see the image. But if that’s really what you want to do, then modify jquery-lightbox-for-native-galleries.php and change the parameters, i.e. remove maxWidth and maxHeight.

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  43. Hey Viper…this plugin freakin rocks! A quick question. Is it possible to apply this to blog post images automatically like the old jquery lightbox? (didn’t know if it was possible to add the “lightbox” class to the post template.

    Thanks,
    Jack

  44. Thanks again for the great work on this plug in. I’m still looking for an easy way to add a magnifying glass to lightbox images to indicate that these can be zoomed into. Anyone have a tutorial or approach that works well?

  45. This is not working on IE 8. It opens and compresses to a white line. Works on FireFox 5.0 and Chrome 12.0.742.112

  46. Hi,

    Thank you for your great WordPress plugin! One question – I’d like to make font size smaller on the captions and change the colors. I found the .php file for the plugin on WordPress, but I’m not sure how to do this. Thanks!

  47. Hi Alex- Great plugin -I’m using it on my site!

    Question: is it possible to have 2 different galleries? For instance, I’d like to create on gallery for photos and another for drawings.

    The plugin was so easy to use, so I’m so happy with it. However, it’d be great to be able to do that.

    Perhaps another gallery on another page?

    thanks!

    – Laura

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