Basic Protected Lightbox

This plugin provides a very lightweight, minimalist, jQuery-based lightbox for displaying full-screen versions of the images from WordPress galleries. It also gives some basic copy protection that should foil relatively unmotivated image thieves by inserting a transparent overlay over the lightbox and all gallery thumbnails. This will prevent people from copying images in your galleries via right-click or drag-and-drop. It's not a true preventative measure, in that someone who really wants to download copies of your images will most likely find a different way, but it is a little more secure than linking directly to the full resolution versions. Image copying is pretty much impossible to fully prevent aside from just not publishing your work in the first place; my goal with this plugin is to find a good middle ground. Want to see it in action? Check out the photos page on my personal website for a live demo.

Install the plugin through the WordPress plugins repository or upload the plugin files to your /wp-content/plugins/basic-protected-lightbox directory. Then activate the plugin and you're good to go! It will automatically include the JavaScript and CSS files in your site's header and activate whenever it's on a page with at least one WordPress gallery block.

1.1 Added keyboard controls and logic to hide the left/right buttons if they aren't needed. 1.0 Initial release.