Turn on your blog with Lightbox for WordPress
Here is a great video on how to turn Lightbox on in your WordPress blog – then we give you a written guide – 4 Ways to Lightbox enable your WordPress blog article we teach you everything you need to know and give you links for even more info!
This wordpress training article is in 6 parts:
1) The video guide to Lightbox.
2) For the programmers out there – We will give you the basic Lightbox 2.01 instructions from the man Who invented it and a link to his site for more info.
3)) For the rest of us we will cover the Lightbox WordPress plugin
4) We will show you a how to use Lightbox in WordPress with a Second video
5) For people who want to learn how to program in WordPress we will show you an excellent book available from Amazon.
First the video guide to using lightbox:
1) For the programmers out there – We will give you the basic Lightbox 2.01 instructions from the man Who invented it and a link to his site for more info.
The below is directly from the website of Lokesh Dhakar the inventor of Lightbox!! You can go to his website for more info and troubleshooting by clicking on this link
How to Use
Part 1 – Setup
- Lightbox 2 uses the Prototype Framework and Scriptaculous Effects Library. You will need to include these three Javascript files in your header (in this order).
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/prototype.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/scriptaculous.js?load=effects,builder"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/lightbox.js"></script> - Include the Lightbox CSS file (or append your active stylesheet with the Lightbox styles).
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/lightbox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> - Check the CSS and make sure the referenced
prev.gifandnext.giffiles are in the right location. Also, make sure theloading.gifandclose.giffiles as referenced near the top of thelightbox.jsfile are in the right location.
Part 2 – Activate
- Add a
rel="lightbox"attribute to any link tag to activate the lightbox. For example:<a href="images/image-1.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="my caption">image #1</a>Optional: Use the
titleattribute if you want to show a caption. - If you have a set of related images that you would like to group, follow step one but additionally include a group name between square brackets in the rel attribute. For example:
<a href="images/image-1.jpg" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]">image #1</a> <a href="images/image-2.jpg" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]">image #2</a> <a href="images/image-3.jpg" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]">image #3</a>No limits to the number of image sets per page or how many images are allowed in each set. Go nuts!
2) For the rest of us we will cover the Lightbox wordpress plugin
Lightbox-2 plugin for WordPress
Lightbox 2 allows you to present images in a slick window, while darkening the rest of the page. It makes your site look professional, and adds very little to page load times. It does not require any browser plugins to work, and works on just about every web browser out there! When a browser doesn’t support javascript, the code fails gracefully.
Lightbox 2 is a plugin that is available for automatic install from your WordPress Plugins tab.
If you do not know how to install plugins you can click on the following link to read an article about how to install wordpress plugins: Guide to WordPress plugins
Features:
- Auto-lightboxing of links to images. This can be disabled on the admin options page.
- Auto-resizing of large images to fit smaller screens. This can be enabled on the admin options page.
- Grabs the title from the img title or the alt if there is no anchor title.
- Faster, cleaner implementations of javascripts via wp_enqueue_script. This also prevents clobbering of other plugins using prototype and scriptaculous javascripts.
- You can choose the lightbox colours on your WordPress Options page. Black, White and Grey themes included.
- No longer conflicts with any WordPress themes! This means it looks right, every time. Unless you are using a theme called stimuli_lightbox…
- Now hosted on WordPress.org. When an update is released, you’ll see it in your WordPress plugins page!
- This version works when wordpress is installed in non-standard locations, ie: /wordpress/ instead of /, whereas other Lightbox plugins break.
- Uses the arrow keys as well as P and N keys to navigate between images. X and Escape keys close the Lightbox window, as does clicking anywhere outside the image.
- Minor cosmetic changes from the standard scripts by Lokesh.
Of course, this plugin works very well with the popular Slickr Gallery plugin for WordPress.
3) We will show you a how to use Lightbox in WordPress with ANOTHER video
A complete video tutorial on how to add Lightbox 2 functionality to your wordpress blog. Get the links by visiting my blog. ijerad.com
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OK, thats it for our how to use lightbox in wordpress Article!
Authors bio is coming up shortly.
Great tutorial! wanna learn more about WordPress, check out my videos on my channel like What is a WordPress Plugin?, How To Create An Author Box In WordPress, and WordPress: A Designer’s First Step. I’d like to take the time to give more help to people out there who are looking for it. I use WordPress daily to advertise, blog, and design for my website.
i have a problem, my lightbox opens up behind my text. do you know how to fix this?
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nevermind, solved it. The jp links were wrong
thanks for the tutorial. I tried what you said and still no joy for some reason. I even changed the jp src location to where it’d be online and still doesn’t work
woo thank you! i was able to make it work on my website!!!! wooo im so happy! and u made it perfect cuz i wanted to use a image too like you did
thank you!
thank you so much, this helped me so much
would this also work for Blogger? Can you do a tutorial for that… or link me please?
Useful,thank you for sharing this
works fine, even without all the coding.
Thanks man,
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