WordPress Colorbox Lightbox

WP Colorbox plugin is a simple lightbox tool for WordPress. It allows users to pop up content in lightbox using the popular jQuery ColorBox library. They can also view the larger version of a particular media file without leaving the page. Requirements

• Latest version of WordPress

Feature

• Beautiful lightbox popup style
• Flexiblity of creating your own lightbox link
• Pop up custom/HTML content in lightbox
• Trigger lightbox from either a text/image link
• Comptaiblie with WordPress multisite
• Add lightbox to a YouTube or Vimeo video link
• Enable lightbox functionality on your site which supports all major browsers
• Use a simple shortcode anywhere on your site (Post, Page, Homepage etc.)to pop up a media file in lightbox
• Apply lightbox effect on images inserted into WordPress post/page
• Open external page in lightbox using iframe
• Responsive lightbox popup which works on mobile devices. Also it fits perfectly on smaller screens.

WP Colorbox Plugin Usage Pop up image in lightbox Create a new post/page and use the following shortcode to create a text/image link which will trigger lightbox once clicked: [wp_colorbox_media url="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" type="image" hyperlink="click here to pop up image"] here, url is the link to the media file that you wish to open in lightbox and hyperlink is the anchor text/image. [wp_colorbox_media url="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" type="image" hyperlink="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/thumb.jpg"] Pop up YouTube video in lightbox [wp_colorbox_media url="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nmp3Ra3Yj24" type="youtube" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video"] Pop up Vimeo video in lightbox [wp_colorbox_media url="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1284237" type="vimeo" hyperlink="click here to pop up vimeo video"] Show Title in lightbox [wp_colorbox_media url="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" title="overlay image" type="image" hyperlink="click here to pop up image"] Specify an Alternate Text for an Image [wp_colorbox_media url="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" title="overlay image" type="image" hyperlink="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/thumb.jpg" alt="Thumbnail image description"] Apply Custom CSS You can specify your own CSS class in the shortcode to customize a text/image link. [wp_colorbox_media url="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nmp3Ra3Yj24" type="youtube" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video" class="custom_class"] Multiple CSS classes can be separated with a space. For example: [wp_colorbox_media url="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nmp3Ra3Yj24" type="youtube" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video" class="custom_class custom_class2"] For detailed documentation please visit the WordPress Colorbox plugin page Recommended Reading

• WordPress Colorbox Documentation
• My Free WordPress Plugins

1.1.1

• Compatible with WordPress 4.8
• Updated all the permalinks

1.1.0

• Disabled scrolling option for YouTube and Vimeo videos.

1.0.9

• Alt (alternate text) attribute can now be specified in the shortcode for a thumbnail image.

1.0.8

• Added translation option so the plugin can take advantage of language packs
• WP Colorbox is now compatible with WordPress 4.4

1.0.7

• WP Colorbox is now compatible with WordPress 4.3

1.0.6

• Added a new shortcode parameter to apply custom CSS classes on a text/image link

1.0.5

• Added a new shortcode parameter to show the title of a media in lightbox

1.0.4

• colorbox shortcodes can now be embedded in a text widget

1.0.3

• Lightbox now opens full-sized images

1.0.2

• Lightbox window is now responsive

1.0.1

• WP Colorbox is now compatible with WordPress 3.9

1.0

• First commit