WordPress plugin: lightbox 2.3 (bugfix release)!
Whupsy! I had an extra line in the lightbox plugin, intended for my site only, to make AJAX comments work with Hemingway. I forgot to remove it for the public release. The net result was major slowdowns of web sites using this version of the plugin.
Sorry! Fixed thanks to one astute user who mentioned the problem.
What a fantastic plugin! A few tweaks to the css and it’s looking fabulous :D Thank you very much :D
You’re very welcome. Happy blogging!
I guess the code didn’t show up. Sorry.
My first comment just disappeared, I don’t know why. Anyhow, I can’t get it to work quite correctly on my site (http://derekperkins.com/seatabilitydesign/chair-components/controls/)
It loads the lightbox, but it doesn’t show any of the file details and it doesn’t let you scroll through the images. I put all the images in the same group, but no dice. Any thoughts?
You have a ton of wordpress plugins enabled, and there’s probably a conflict.
Wild guess: your ‘postinfo’ plugin is the culprit.
Another question I had while building this site was about video. Would it be possible to have an embedded YouTube video pop up into the lightbox?
Not sure. Try it and let me know!
You nailed it on the head. It was that ‘postinfo’ plugin that was interfering with it.
I tried linking it to my YouTube video, but it loaded lightbox and then just hung. I think it has to do with some of the problems other people were having with it redirected to the webpage, not to the actual video file itself. When you embed a YouTube video, it creates the object dynamically as a wrapper for the video. How would I link the href of the lightbox to a dynamic object? Is there a better way to approach this?
Help… I have the plugin installed and I have a link trying to use it on my galleries page but it just links me directly to the image… it doesn’t use the lightbox.
Any thoughts?
provide me with an URL so I can see.
I have been looking for a plug in to use photos and this was the best one i found. I tried hard to make it work well on my blog but can’t seem to do it right. The photos does nt link correctly . Pls help.
http://www.theindiatravels.com
No worries mate I’ve sorted it. scripts referred to a folder called stimuli-lightbox2 when the folder that was created was just called lightbox-2
altered my directory structure and it now works :)
adam: It looks like you really need to reload your cached photos, from within Slickr Gallery’s Options page.
Lightbox doesn’t start working until the whole page has loaded. So because your site is trying to load images, unsuccessfully, forever, Lightbox doesn’t start and thus doesn’t work. Also, it appears you’ve altered code on the Slickr Widget? The images link to your gallery page, which will break lightbox as the thumbnails should always link to a larger image for lightbox to open.
Finally, in your posts you have thumbs. If you want lightbox to open larger versions of them, those thumbs must link to the larger versions, and in the (a href=”somepic.jpg” alt=”my dog skippy”) you need to add rel=”lightbox” or rel=”lightbox[india_pics]”
One last thing: if you go to validator.w3c.org, you can check any web site to see if it has proper html. I checked yours and there are 147 errors in the code. Generally what this means is the wordpress theme was written by someone not very knowledgeable. The more errors in the html, the more likely things will either look or behave weird.
The site looks great, though, and it loads very quickly (except for a stall from flickr.com, which is why I suggested reloading your cache. Also, Slickr doesn’t display any galleries).
Once downloaded and installed it says it’s version 2.2.1. Is the link correct or are the comments in the php file not uploaded?