Lightbox 2 WordPress Plugin

Minh Trung:

Good plugin, thank you.

AnneMarie:

I still come up with validation errors for my site and I know its because of the lightbox coding that is put into my header code. How can I fix this?

Arne:

Hi,
I use your lightbox plugin with wordpress version 2.7.1 DE-Edition. Looks great!

But a little hint for you, your download button has a mistake .. you´ve written “downoad” instead of “down>l<oad”

greetings from germany!
Arne

Ben:

Thanks for the awesome plugin for WordPress! Just what I was looking for to help my blog mesh with my site.

Nico:

Hello,
How Can I set the overlay opacity on th Lightbox plugin?

Thanks you.

georgian:

But how to hide the fullpath to image in statusbar ?

10x

Guido:

thanks for the great plugin!!!

K Holmes:

I’ve been trying to get it to work on this page:

http://www.belinkddesign.com/portfolio/

However, it does not seem to; I even cheated a little and copy/pasted some of your images in and it would not work. Perhaps it is clashing with something else? I cannot say.

John Bintz:

There are two problems in the code that renders the header tags. One: if you have automatic Lightbox turned off, the headers aren’t being written. This will fix that issue:

$lightboxoffmeta = get_post_meta($post->ID,’lightboxoff’,true);
$conditionals = get_option(‘lightbox_conditionals’);
if (($conditionals['is_automatic'] == true && $lightboxoffmeta == “false”) || ($conditionals['is_automatic'] == false)) {
echo ‘ lb_path = “‘ . $lightboxpluginpath . ‘lightbox/”; lb_opacity= “‘ . $lightboxlb_opacity . ‘”; lb_resize= “‘ . $lightboxlb_resize . ‘”;’.”\n”;

Second, if WordPress is already loading Prototype, loading your own Prototype will cause problems with the overlay not appearing correctly. I commented out your Prototype loading line and that worked correctly.

Kim H:

I took out the prototype.js calls like you suggested, but I don’t see where to add in these lines of code exactly? (I’m assuming they go in lightbox.php but I’m not 100% sure, based upon your instructions).

I tried enabling automatic Lightbox, but not even that appeared to work, perhaps because I am trying to apply it to a page which does not have blog posts on it.

John Binz:

Yeah, in lightbox.php, around lines 48-52.

Kim H:

I pasted the code in and commented out lines 48-52; now the line

lb_path = “http://www.belinkddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/lightbox-2-wordpress-plugin/lightbox/”; lb_opacity= “0.8″; lb_resize= “7″;

appears above my blog, and it still does not work on http://belinkddesign.com/portfolio

(By the way, thanks for the help – it’s greatly appreciated. I’m definitely no PHP wizard )

John Bintz:

Oops, I was being too loose with my documentation. Sorry about that. Using the original lightbox.php file, find this:

$lightboxoff = false;
$lightboxoffmeta = get_post_meta($post->ID,’lightboxoff’,true);
if ($lightboxoffmeta == “false”) {
echo ‘ lb_path = “‘ . $lightboxpluginpath . ‘lightbox/”; lb_opacity= “‘ . $lightboxlb_opacity . ‘”; lb_resize= “‘ . $lightboxlb_resize . ‘”;’.”\n”;

and replace it with this:

$lightboxoff = false;
$lightboxoffmeta = get_post_meta($post->ID,’lightboxoff’,true);
if (($conditionals['is_automatic'] == true && $lightboxoffmeta == “false”) || ($conditionals['is_automatic'] == false)) {
echo ‘ lb_path = “‘ . $lightboxpluginpath . ‘lightbox/”; lb_opacity= “‘ . $lightboxlb_opacity . ‘”; lb_resize= “‘ . $lightboxlb_resize . ‘”;’.”\$

Kim H:

I copy and pasted that in; however, I received a syntax error with the following code:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ‘,’ or ‘;’ in /mnt/data/com.belinkddesign/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/lightbox-2-wordpress-plugin/lightbox.php on line 51

I noted from my editor that it was stringing the end of line 50, as it had mismatched quotation marks. Thus I edited the quoting slightly so that it was not stringing the statements following line 50, and received the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘$’, expecting ‘,’ or ‘;’ in /mnt/data/com.belinkddesign/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/lightbox-2-wordpress-plugin/lightbox.php on line 50

I changed the line again, so that it now looks like the following:

echo ‘ lb_path = “‘ . $lightboxpluginpath . ‘lightbox/”; lb_opacity= “‘ . $lightboxlb_opacity . ‘”; lb_resize= “‘ . $lightboxlb_resize . ‘;’.”\$”;

It now appears to print in the header of the site as plain text?

John Bintz:

…that’s what I get for copying and pasting from nano. That last line should be:

echo ‘ lb_path = “‘ . $lightboxpluginpath . ‘lightbox/”; lb_opacity= “‘ . $lightboxlb_opacity . ‘”; lb_resize= “‘ . $lightboxlb_resize . ‘”;’.”\n”;

Kim H:

Added that in; it’s still printing text into the header.

John Bintz:

@Kim, download this: http://www.coswellproductions.com/stuff/lightbox.php.txt and rename it lightbox.php and try that out.