Lightbox software

Jin

Jin

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I am using wordpress currently and was wondering if anyone knows any lightbox software for websites? I am really not in the mood to write my own code so would appreciate a pointer in the direction to any scripts.

I want something that is fairly comprehensive and can do the following.

  • Handle large files.
  • Multiple Uploading (though not necessary).
  • Uses caption.
  • Easy to use (for the end user (website visitors)).
  • Flexible image size options.
  • Album support.
  • Album thumbnail support.
  • Maybe commenting using facebook and/or twitter connect.

It doesn't need to be integrated into wordpress itself as I want my blog posts to have an image with lets say the album thumbnail and a caption like "To view more images click here".

I suppose I wouldn't mind if it uses flickr either.
 
lightbox 2 is a plugin, there might be a fancybox plugin (its built into my theme)

be careful you don't have 2 sorts fighting or one in the theme and one in a plugin arguing as it leads to much confusion
 
Hi david,

Thanks for the suggestion.

I have looked at lightbox2 but I am not so sure if I would be happy with having to code so heavily a simple function (albums) which could be handled dynamically.

After all I would be uploading 100's of photos and I don't like the idea of having to individually code each item into their respective albums.
 
you don't, you put them in the wordpress gallery and they just auto lightbox

check out my blog, it has fancybox built into the theme but the plugin works the same way (as the last theme version didn't have it built it so I used the plugin). I just upload the images into the blog post (can work en masse but I've never blogged more than 20 or so images) then you can rename them or alter the order ect inside wordpress, tell it how many columns you want and hi insert - easy as easy :D
 
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