Slimbox WordPress Plugin
29 Jul 07WordPress plugin used to overlay images on the current page into neat Javascript-powered overlay popups.
Because Slimbox was designed to be 100% compatible with Lightbox, you can just replace the Lightbox 2 WordPress Plugin whit Slimbox Plugin and your Lightbox effects will work just as well as before.
Use the
title attribute if you want to show a caption. Click on the images below for an example.
Installation
- Upload slimbox-plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Add a rel=”lightbox” attribute to any link tag to activate the lightbox, or rel=”lightbox[roadtrip]“ for image set.
- Optional: Use the
titleattribute if you want to show a caption. - If you want to add automatically the lightbox effect to your post’s images, open lighbox.php and remove the comment ‘//’ from lines 21 to 24.
Single example:
<a href=”img1.jpg” rel=”lightbox” title=”my caption”>thumbnail1</a>
Image set example:
<a href=”img1.jpg” rel=”lightbox[roadtrip]“>thumbnail1</a>
<a href=”img2.jpg” rel=”lightbox[roadtrip]“>thumbnail2</a>
<a href=”img3.jpg” rel=”lightbox[roadtrip]“>thumbnail3</a>
Tnx to my sister for the photos! Link me in your site!
Changelog
Version 1.3 (22-08-2008)
Update Slimbox to version 1.64
- v1.64
- Fixed a bug where in some cases, Flash animations inserted using SWFObject would not show properly after Slimbox closes.s.
- v1.63, requires mootools >= 1.2.
- Updated code for mootools 1.2.
- Slimbox is now fully compatible with Opera 9.5 and quirks mode web pages!
Version 1.2 (09-06-2008)
Update Slimbox to version 1.52
- v1.52 (2008-06-08)
- Added the “loop†option to allow navigation between the first and last images of a Slimbox gallery, when there is more than one image to display.
- Fixed a bug which allowed to change the image while Slimbox was closing.
- API: The Slimbox elements functions now return “this†to allow chaining.
- Small optimizations.
- v1.51 (2008-05-30)
- Fixed an error which occurred when Slimbox was used in combination with SWFObject in Firefox. Also fixes a memory leak in Internet Explorer.
- v1.5 (2008-05-23)
- Most of the code has been rewritten with a new approach. It s now much smaller! (4kb)
- Added the “overlayOpacity†option to specify the level of opacity of the overlay.
- Added the “counterText†option to specify a custom or localized counter text.
- Slimbox does not take up any space at the bottom of the page any more in some browsers.
- Now Slimbox does not wait for the caption animation to complete before enabling navigation. So you can navigate faster between images.
- Keyboard events are now captured when Slimbox is open to prevent page scrolls when using the arrow keys to navigate.
- You can now have two times the same image in an images set.
- The CSS file now includes Z-index definitions that are required if your web page design relies on elements with Z-index.
- The provided GIF images are now smaller.
- API: Slimbox now extends the Element and Elements classes. You can now associate a Slimbox gallery to any group of link elements using $$(elements).slimbox([options]).
- API: You can now specify different options for each group of link elements where you applied the slimbox([options]) function.
- API: When you call slimbox() on elements, you can now specify an optional filter function and an optional mapper function for maximum flexibility (see documentation).
- The Lightbox compatibility code is now fully optional. It s implemented in a few lines using the new API and a filter function.
- API: The main entry point has been renamed from “Lightbox†to “Slimboxâ€
- API: Lightbox.show() and Lightbox.open() have been merged into Slimbox.open()
- The Slimbox distribution now includes mootools, an example page and a Readme file.
Version 1.0 (29-07-2007)
First version.
Download Slimbox WordPress Plugin
If you appreciated this plugin or my support, donate me so i can buy a cup of coffee, tnx u!
Gio:
Se aggiungo tutti i credits del caso posso modificarlo e ripubblicarlo?
Is there a way to get this to work with embedded gallery/wordpress?
A great update for this would be a button for the default WYSIWYG and TinyMCE editor to insert images into pages and posts. 
Yes i’m working on it, tnx!
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Livia:
Ciao,
mille grazie per questo plugin.
Mi piace molto, ma mi sembra che non funziona in Firefox e Opera (Win e Mac). Hai un idea perch
Ciao, in questi giorni ci sono poco e niente, comunque dovrebbe funzionare anche con i browser che dici tu, controlla che javascript sia abilitato. Ciao!
Livia:
Grazie per la tua risposta. Ho cambiato al Lightbox2 plugin di te e questo funziona perfettamento. Nessun idea perch
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Hi,
Just thought I’d let you know that this plugin generates a JavaScript error in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 and renders the page unloadable. This is obviously a very serious bug and needs to be addressed. For more info, please read my blog post about this:
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blackwolf_wx:
Works fine in my WordPress 2.2.2 install. Tested and found working in Firefox 2, IE 6 and Opera 9. Found no errors mentioned by previous commenter.
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dave:
Please can someone give a full example of how the image link looks with the rel=”lightbox” added.
JHS:
Didn’t work. No effect. Nothing. As if it weren’t installed.
Slimbox is working well, but I noticed it renders my GeoMashup page useless. Looks like the same thing happens if I use Lightbox2, so I returned to Slimbox — but I’d hate to have to choose between GeoMashup and Slimbox. Any suggestions?
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I have installed the plugin but it seems to put the images in a image set even thought they are in separate posts and I am not using the image set []…
any thoughts on this?
Tim:
Well, I’ve installed it and I can’t get it to work. Maybe I’m missing something.
Juergen:
Hey, I have a problem with displaying it in Safari 2.0. The part below the picture is too far left. In Firefox everything is fine. What can it be?
ottimo Lightbox era davvero troppo pesante, ed a volte se qualcuno cliccava sull’immagine ed il mattonazzo dei vari JS non erano ancora stati caricati caricava l’immagine come _black ora
Juergen:
Sorry, I do not understand a single word… I should learn italian. Was this a reply to my previous post?
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Jiwon:
It works great in Windows, but animation is quite choppy on Ubuntu/Linux. Does anyone else using Linux have the same problem?
spirit:
Hi there! I experienced an issue with this plugin. The image isn’t loaded and my page just display a white rectangle with the modal grey background… I must open three times the image to make it works… any clue ?
Hi! I tried this plugin, but it doesn’t work for me. In IE7 nothing happens at all, and in Firefox usually I only get a white box. Sometimes I see the picture as well, but without the loading animation and the exit x.
I’m using WP 2.2.2 and the K2 skin. When I enable this plugin, the java search in K2 also stops working. This is the post where i tried the Slimbox plugin: http://blog.stadi.eu/2007/09/02/tejszines-barackos-csirke/
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HFC:
Neat plugin, but I can’t seem to get it working. The shaded page overlay loads as well as the loader image but the image never populated. You can see an example here: hedge fund crash
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For those of you experiencing problems it could quite possibly be conflicting with another plugin you have installed.
Slimbox worked perfectly for me until I activated the wp-grins plugin then all I got was a white box loading, no photo. The minute I deactivated wp-grins, it worked again.
JKay:
Nice plugin! I loaded it together with NGGallery and works GREAT!!
Bob:
Hi, great script. Just one question: how to separate several image sets in a single page. As of now, it loads all the image sets in a single show. Wouldn’t be possible to something like that:
thumbnail1
thumbnail2
Thx
Hi bob, just create 2 (roadtrip1, roadtrip2)
Great plug-in, but I keep getting a java script error… help please….
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Evan:
Great plugin but.. For some reason it only works when one is logged in as wp-admin? I’ve tested on two installations of WP and have reproduced this odd behavior.
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Stefano:
Detto fatto, ottimo lavoro e grazie!