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A plugin which adds a shortcode: <code>[gallery_from_regex_matches]</code> in which a regex attribute should be specified. It will then look for matches in the descriptions and titles of all published images in your library, and create a gallery from the matches it finds.
<ul>
<li>Use for example like this <code>[gallery_from_regex_matches regex="lillill" exclude_ids="764"]</code>, and it will generate a gallery of all your pictures of “Lillill”, except the one which has ID 764.</li>
<li>Sometimes it might be advicable to limit the amount of matches. that can be achieved by adding <code>limit</code> to the shortcode. <code>[gallery_from_regex_matches regex="lillill" exclude_ids="764" limit="10"]</code>.</li>
<li>Sometimes you want to make a gallery of “cats” but not “catsup”, but you don’t want to add <a href="https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/regexp.html" rel="nofollow ugc">word boundary</a> <code>[[:>:]]</code>, in this case you can <code>exclude_regex=catsup</code>. Then it could look something along the line of <code>[gallery_from_regex_matches regex="cats" exclude_regex="catsup"]</code>.</li>
<li>The same params (except for <code>ids</code>) as for the <code>[media]</code> shortcode can be used (as this plugin calls that shortcodes callback function (<code>gallery_shortcode()</code>) to generate the gallery), so if you want to specify a particular type (style) of gallery from for example your cat pictures , this might do the trick: <code>[gallery_from_regex_matches regex="(cat|kitten)" type="square"]</code>.</li>
<li>The regular expressions follows the <a href="https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/regexp.html" rel="nofollow ugc">MySQL Regexp syntax</a></li>
<li>Some characters will per default not work inside of the shortcode, see the “Caveats” section.</li>
<li>There are no bells and whistles for this plugin but it could potentionally be added in the futre.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Caveats</h3>
Since the regex used by the plugin is specified as an attribute value inside of a shortcode, and the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API" rel="nofollow ugc">Shortcode Api</a> disallows the use of certain characters which could be a part of a valid, useful regex, there are some things to consider.
<blockquote>
Attribute values must never contain the following characters: 
 * Square braces: [ ] 
 * Quotes: ” ‘
[ … ] 
 The recommended method of escaping special characters in shortcode attributes is HTML encoding. Most importantly, any user input appearing in a shortcode attribute must be escaped or stripped of special characters.
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>if in the regex you need to macth a character set <code>[a-z]</code>, then (following the shortcode Api documentation guidline), they need to be encoded. There are two encodings which the plugin accepts: “html” and “base64” </li>
<li>Currently there is no way to encode these things with help of the plugin, although it is planned for a future release, so the regexes must be encoded manually for now’ 
For example, for regex <code>w[0u][0u]ti</code> can be expressed either:</li>
</ul>
With HTML encoding: 
 <code>[gallery_from_regex_matches regex="w&#091;0u&#093;&#091;0u&#093;ti" encoding="html"]</code>
With Base64 encoding: 
 <code>[gallery_from_regex_matches regex="d1swdV1bMHVddGk=" encoding="base64"]</code>
To encode a string to base64, it can be done from the terminal like this: 
 <code>% echo -n "catsup" | base64 
Y2F0c3Vw 
% echo -n Y2F0c3Vw | base64 --decode 
catsup%</code>

Gallery From Regex Matches

Maintain a gallery by including all published images in your library which match a regex (in title or description).

Rolf Allard van Hagen

Erick Danzer

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Firelight Lightbox is the most popular lighbox plugin for WordPress, active on over 200,000 WordPress installations. It adds a lightweight and flexible lightbox for viewing images, video, and other media on your website.
After activation, links to images, galleries, videos, pdfs, maps, modals, etc, will open in a lightbox. Settings will be under ‘Lightbox’ on your main admin menu.
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GDPR / EU Privacy
This plugin does not collect any data or set any browser cookies. The PRO version offers an option to disable the automatic popup after the first visit, which needs a browser cookie. This cookie stores the visitors first website visit timestamp and path on the client side. It is not shared nor is any data stored server side or elsewhere.
<h4>Contribute</h4>
If you’re happy with this plugin, please consider writing a quick <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/easy-fancybox/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">rating</a>, helping others in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/easy-fancybox" rel="ugc">forum</a>, or <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/easy-fancybox/" rel="nofollow ugc">translating</a>.
<h4>Known conflicts & issues</h4>
See <a href="https://firelightwp.com/wordpress-lightbox-docs/troubleshooting-easy-fancybox/" rel="nofollow ugc">Firelight Lightbox Troubleshooting</a>.

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This plugin has been revived by an excellent developer, with regular updates, new features and active support!


Excellent new developer


The title says it all really. Thanks for the plugin !


Simple, easy, it just works

Nice plugin!


Nice way to add a little pop for folks who click on website photos to enlarge them.


Easy and works

Formerly Easy Fancybox. The most popular WordPress lightbox plugin. Simple, fast, and responsive. Opens images, videos, PDFs, and custom popups.

Gallery From Regex Matches vs Firelight Lightbox