MetaSlider Lightbox

For use with the popular WordPress plugin MetaSlider allowing slides to be opened in a lightbox, using one of the following supported lightbox plugins:

• Easy FancyBox (300,000+ active installations)
• Simple Lightbox (200,000+ active installations)
• FooBox Image Lightbox (100,000+ active installations)
• WP Featherlight (70,000+ active installations)
• WP Colorbox Lightbox (10,000+ active installations)
• ARI Fancy Lightbox (10,000+ active installations)
• Gallery Manager (6,000+ active installations)

We also support the following WordPress plugins, although they haven't had recent updates, or sometimes go long periods without the authors fixing issues:

• Responsive Lightbox by dFactory (200,000+ active installations)Note: Some users are reporting errors with Responsive Lightbox by dFactory (see here).
• WP Lightbox 2 (60,000+ active installations)
• WP jQuery Lightbox (50,000+ active installations)
• jQuery Colorbox (30,000+ active installations)
• Fancy Lightbox (1,000+ active installations)
• imageLightbox (800+ active installations)
• WP Lightbox Ultimate
• Lightbox Plus

If you would like to use a lightbox plugin that isn't supported you can add support by hooking into the metaslider_lightbox_supported_plugins filter. If you need assistance, please open an issue.

Requires:

• MetaSlider 3.0+

and one of the following lightbox plugins:

• Easy FancyBox
• Simple Lightbox
• Responsive Lightbox by dFactory
• FooBox Image Lightbox
• WP Featherlight
• WP ColorBox Lightbox
• Gallery Manager
• ARI Fancy Lightbox – WordPress Popup
• WP Lightbox 2
• WP jQuery Lightbox
• jQuery Colorbox
• Fancy Lightbox
• imageLightbox
• WP Lightbox Ultimate
• Lightbox Plus

If you would like to use a lightbox plugin, you can filter the supported plugin list with the necessary attributes. For example, using Responsive Lightbox Lite add_filter('metaslider_lightbox_supported_plugins', 'supported_plugins_list'); function supported_plugins_list($supported_plugins_list) { return array( 'Responsive Lightbox' => array( 'location' => 'responsive-lightbox-lite/responsive-lightbox-lite.php', 'settings_url' => 'options-general.php?page=responsive-lightbox-lite', 'rel' => 'lightbox', 'attributes' => array( 'data-lightbox-type' => 'iframe' ) ) ); } Note that you can use :url or :caption to retrieve these items from the slides, such as 'data-lightbox-url' => ':url' The easy way:

1. Go to the Plugins Menu in WordPress
2. Search for "MetaSlider Lightbox"
3. Click "Install"

The not so easy way:

1. Upload the ml-slider-lightbox folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Manage your slideshows using the 'MetaSlider' menu option

The format is based on Keep a Changelog recommendations and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning. [1.13.2] - 10 Jul, 2024

• ADDED: metaslider_admin_notices hook, #26;

[1.13.1] - 12 Oct, 2021

• FIXED: Lightbox setting is broken if using MetaSlider v3.27.13, #18;
• CHANGED: Remove Extendify library;

[1.13.0] - 13 Jul, 2021

• CHANGED: Update the library.

[1.12.2] - 7 Jul, 2021

• FIXED: Bug fixes.
• ADDED: Adds option to disable the library.

[1.12.1] - 17 May, 2021

• FIXED: Bug fixes.

[1.12.0] - 28 Apr, 2021

• ADDED: Adds access to the Extendify template and pattern library.

[1.11.3] - 22 Aug, 2020

• CHANGED: Updates readme and team account info.

[1.11.2] - 09 Apr, 2020

• CHANGED: De-prioritizes recommendation for Responsive Lightbox by dFactory due to inactivity.

[1.11.1] - 14 Aug, 2019

• FIXED: Fixes issue where the setting wouldn't save properly.

[1.11.0] - 8 Jul, 2019

• ADDED: Adds support for Gallery Manager Pro.

[1.10.4] - 30 Apr, 2019

• CHANGED: Adds unique class name to admin notices.

[1.10.3] - 04 Jan, 2019

• FIXED: Fixes a bug where WP-Featherlight would not load as a gallery.

[1.10.2] - 14 Jul, 2018

• CHANGED: Updates settings page for WP Lightbox 2 to match their update.

[1.10.1] - 16 Mar, 2018

• FIXED: Updates how lightbox plugins are checked for activation.
• FIXED: Addresses a bug that checks for previous slider settings.
• FIXED: Removes an incompatible lightbox plugin (duplicate name).

[1.10.0] - 16 Mar, 2018

• ADDED: Adds support for additional lightbox plugins.
• CHANGED: Refactors lightbox to clean up attribute function.
• CHANGED: Refactors various parts of the code to extract supported plugin data.
• CHANGED: Extracts the class MetaSliderLightboxPlugin to its own file.
• CHANGED: Changes the logic for check if the plugin is install and active.
• CHANGED: Adds a CSS class to the container that identifies the active lightbox plugin.
• CHANGED: Adds filters to let users manipulate the plugin use.
• CHANGED: Refactors lightbox to clean up attribute function.

[1.9.3] - 14 Nov, 2018

• CHANGED: Fix checks to slide URL.
• FIXED: FooBox Pro compatibility update.
• FIXED: Updates the FooBox Profile name.
• FIXED: Update Gallery Manager plugin settings.

[1.9.2] - 26 Jan, 2018

• CHANGED: Update translation strings.
• CHANGED: Adds warning message when no lightbox is active.

[1.9.0] - 28 Mar, 2017

• FIXED: Simple lightbox use slide caption instead of attachment caption.

[1.8.0] - 16 Mar, 2017

• FIXED: Update slide image URL to comply with new slide post type.

[1.7.0] - 09 May, 2016

• FIXED: Removes defunct Lightbox Plus plugin link (thanks to @Hendrik57).

[1.6.0] - 01 Apr, 2015

• ADDED: Adds support for FooBox Image Lightbox and WP Lightbox 2 Pro versions.

[1.5.0] - 30 Jan, 2015

• ADDED: Adds support for FooBox Image Lightbox and Responsive Lightbox by dFactory.

[1.4.0] - 15 Dec, 2014

• FIXED: Hides dependency warning in admin if WP Video Lightbox is activated (reported by and thanks to: vfontj).

[1.3.0] - 28 Oct, 2014

• ADDED: Adds support for Fancy Gallery lightbox plugin (suggested by and thanks to: Zim1).

[1.2.0] - 17 Sep, 2014

• ADDED: Support for additional lightbox plugins.

[1.1.0] - 22 Aug, 2014

• FIXED: Array assignment compatibility PHP < v5.4 (reported by and thanks to: andrea_montuori).

[1.0.0] - 15 Aug, 2014

• ADDED: Initial version.