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, your web site still looks and works fine.

The brilliant Lightbox 2.2 javascript/css was written by Lokesh Dhakar. I simply made it into a WordPress plugin and added some options.

To install: Put the lightbox-2 folder in your WordPress plugins folder, then activate it in WordPress.

Implementing Lightbox on your site is easy: grab the lightbox-auto plugin by Mdkart which automatically adds this code to appropriate images! Or, if you prefer, manually add rel=”lightbox” to your thumbnail image’s href tag, or rel=”lightbox[groupname]“ to a group of related photos.

Features:

• Themes that determine the colours of the lightbox window. You can select from Black, White or Grey.
• No longer conflicts with any WordPress themes! This means it looks right, every time. Unless you are using a theme called stimuli_lightbox… ;)
• 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. The X and Escape keys close the Lightbox window, as does clicking anywhere outside the image.
• Minor cosmetic changes from the scripts by Lokesh.

Please read the readme.txt included with the plugin before posting a comment!

WordPress 2.5 users: You will have to create the page the gallery is on. My gallery is at stimuli.ca/gallery/, so I had to create a blank page called “gallery” or else the gallery would not load.

Slickr Gallery is a very fast Flickr photo album plugin for WordPress. It uses AJAX extensively to minimize bandwidth use and present a slick user interface.

New in this release:

• Bugfixes galore!
• Private photos no longer shown in Wiget/Block.
• UTF-8 languages no longer mangled when posting a photo in a blog entry.
• Gallery thumbnail size is adjustable in Slickr Gallery’s Options page.
• Theme styles are updated.
• Album selection and de-selection now works.

It’s early days for Slickr Gallery, but you will hopefully find it very usable. Please post feedback in the comments below.

PLEASE READ THE INCLUDED readme.txt BEFORE POSTING A COMMENT!

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, your web site still looks and works fine.

The brilliant Lightbox 2.2 javascript/css was written by Lokesh Dhakar. I simply made it into a WordPress plugin.

To install: Put the lightbox-2 folder in your WordPress plugins folder, then activate it in WordPress.

Implementing Lightbox on your site is easy: grab the lightbox-auto plugin by Mdkart which automatically adds this code to appropriate images! Or, if you prefer, manually add rel=”lightbox” to your thumbnail image’s href tag, or rel=”lightbox[groupname]“ to a group of related photos.

Features:

• Now hosted on WordPress.org. When an update is released, you’ll see it in your WordPress plugins page!
• No longer conflicts with any WordPress themes! This means it looks right, every time. Unless you are using a theme called stimuli_lightbox… ;)
• 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. The X and Escape keys close the Lightbox window, as does clicking anywhere outside the image.
• Minor cosmetic changes from the scripts by Lokesh.

Slickr Gallery is a very fast Flickr photo album plugin for WordPress. It uses AJAX extensively to minimize bandwidth use and present a slick user interface.

New in this release:

• Major under-the-hood changes.
• Greater compatibility with many web hosts.

Known issues:

• All albums are shown, regardless of albums selected in the Slickr Gallery options page.

It’s early days for Slickr Gallery, but you will hopefully find it very usable. Please post feedback in the comments below.

PLEASE READ THE INCLUDED readme.txt BEFORE POSTING A COMMENT!

New in this release:

• Safari issues resolved with items fading in then disappearing.

Known issues:

• All albums are shown, regardless of albums selected in the Slickr Gallery options page.

It’s early days for Slickr Gallery, but you will hopefully find it very usable. Please post feedback in the comments below.

New in this release:

• Gallery doesn’t appear until entire page loads, guaranteeing that the lightbox script has initialized.
• little fixes (for Safari, etc).

Known issues:

• All albums are shown, regardless of albums selected in the Slickr Gallery options page.

It’s early days for Slickr Gallery, but you will hopefully find it very usable. Please post feedback in the comments below.

New in this release:

• Gallery doesn’t appear until entire page loads, guaranteeing that the lightbox script has initialized.
• Widget that shows recent/random photos.
• Minor code speed up.

Known issues:

• All albums are shown, regardless of albums selected in the Slickr Gallery options page.

It’s early days for Slickr Gallery, but you will hopefully find it very usable. Please post feedback in the comments below.

New in this release:

• WordPress 2.2 compatibility.

Known issues:

• All albums are shown, regardless of albums selected in the Slickr Gallery options page.
• The Sidebar widget does not yet work. The Hemingway block does, however.

It’s early days for Slickr Gallery, but you will hopefully find it very usable. Please post feedback in the comments below.

New in this release:

• Massive runtime speedups using efficient, minimal functions. Exponentially faster than previous Slickr Galleries. Especially for people with many photos and/or many galleries.
• It hopefully works (even for you, Kyle!), unlike 0.2b!
• A new, much faster Hemingway block is included in flickr/themes/hemingway/block/. If you have a previous Hemingway block installed, replace it with this one!
  
• Code is much more ‘bullet proof’ even on hosts like Bluehost (grrr).
  

Known issues:

• All albums are shown, regardless of albums selected in the Slickr Gallery options page. This is until I figure out what the deal is with Bluehost. Grrr.
• The Sidebar widget might work, but then again it might not. I’ve yet to check. Update: Apparently it does not.

It’s early days for Slickr Gallery, but you will hopefully find it very usable. Please post feedback in the comments below.

New in this release:

• I rewrote the Javascript to use the venerable Prototype and Script.aculo.us libraries, which are included with Lightbox plugins (you need a Lightbox plugin for this plugin to work correctly).
• A Hemingway block is included in flickr/themes/hemingway/block/
• Flickr albums can be hidden from Slickr Gallery
  
• Themes can be chosen on the Options -> Slickr Gallery admin page
• Photos can now be included in blog posts on WordPress 2.1+

It’s early days for Slickr Gallery, but you will hopefully find it very usable. Please post feedback in the comments below.