Arya Dhiratara

Automatically adds Lightbox functionality to images displayed by WordPress (Gutenberg) Gallery and Image Blocks, as well as GenerateBlocks Image Blocks, and also videos created by the core Video Block, using the FSlightbox library.
This lightweight plugin will automatically adds Lightbox functionality to all images displayed by
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<li>the Core Gallery Block,</li>
<li>the Core Image Block,</li>
<li>GenerateBlocks Image Block,</li>
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and videos displayed by
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<li>the core Video Block</li>
</ul>
without the needs to set each gallery/image and video link to the media file so you don’t need to set them manually one by one.
Note: You can exclude specific image/video from getting the lightbox functionality by adding <code>no-lightbox</code> class to the image/video element.
<h3>About The Plugin</h3>
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This plugin has no settings (you can customized the default configuration using filters), hence does not add any data to the database, so you don’t need to worry about ‘database leftovers’ if you deactivate the plugin.
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This plugin will automatically add the wrapper link with the necessary attribute on each image and videos that uses the blocks mentioned above to add the lightbox functionality using a few lines of inline script. So it will not make any changes to your original image and video tags (if you check from the page’s HTML source), and will not add extra weight / DOM depth to your page’s HTML.
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By default, this plugin only works with the native WordPress Gallery, Image, and Video Blocks, as well as GenerateBlocks Image Blocks. You can add additional selectors using filters to make this functionality also works with other image/video blocks. If you need to, send me a request to have your image/video block included by default.
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This plugin will only enqueued its assets (1 JS file) to pages/posts that use blocks, and will not enqueue assets if the page/post doesn’t use one of them.
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I provided simple hover CSS which are not enabled by default. You can enable it using filter (see below).
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<h3>To add other image/video block:</h3>
Add the CSS class uses by the image/video block element, e.g:
<pre><code>add_filter( 'use_lightbox_in', function($use_lightbox_in) {
 return $use_lightbox_in . ',.your-other-plugin-block-image-parent-element img, .your-other-plugin-image-class';
} );
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Add the block info/name so that this plugin will enqueued the FSlightbox JavaScripts if the block is use in a post/page, e.g:
<pre><code>add_filter( 'use_lightbox_if', function($use_lightbox_if) {
 return $use_lightbox_if . '|| has_block( "kadence/advancedgallery" ) || has_block( "your-plugin-block-name/the-block-name" )';
} );
</code></pre>
<h3>To only enable Lightbox Functionality on certain page/post types:</h3>
Simply use the <code>wp_dequeue</code> function**, e.g.:
<pre><code>add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', function() {
 if ( ! is_singular('post') ) { // only enable in single post type
 wp_dequeue_script( 'image-video-lightbox' );
 }
});
</code></pre>
<h3>To only enable simple hover CSS:</h3>
<pre><code>add_filter('use_lightbox_css', function () {
 return true;
});
</code></pre>
<h3>Why using FSlightbox?</h3>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/banthagroup/fslightbox" rel="nofollow ugc">FSlightbox</a> is Vanilla Javascript Lightbox Library written in pure JavaScript without jQuery or any other additional dependencies. It’s lightweight (around 9kb *gzip)! 
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<li>The JavaScript is delayable (*yes, it’s important for me). This is the only lightbox library I found that works when the JavaScript is delayed.</li>
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<h3>My other Plugins:</h3>
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<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/optimize-more/" rel="ugc">Optimize More!</a> – A DIY WordPress Page Speed Optimization Pack. Features:
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<li>Load CSS Asynchronously – selectively load CSS file(s) asynchronously on selected post/page types.</li>
<li>Delay CSS and JS until User Interaction – selectively delay CSS/JS load until user interaction on selected post/page types.</li>
<li>Preload Critical CSS, JS, and Font Files – selectively preload critical CSS/JS/Font file(s) on selected post/page types.</li>
<li>Remove Unused CSS and JS Files – selectively remove unused CSS/JS file(s) on selected post/page types.</li>
<li>Load Gutenberg CSS conditionally – Load each CSS of the core blocks will only get enqueued when the block gets rendered on a page.</li>
<li>Advance Defer JS – hold JavaScripts load until everything else has been loaded. Adapted from the legendary varvy’s defer js method *recommended for defer loading 3rd party scripts like ads, pixels, and trackers</li>
<li>Defer JS – selectively defer loading JavaScript file(s) on selected post/page types.</li>
<li>Remove Passive Listener Warnings – Remove the “Does not use passive listeners to improve scrolling performance” warning on Google PageSpeed Insights</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/lazyload-preload-and-more/" rel="ugc">Lazyload, Preload, and more!</a> – This tiny little plugin (around 14kb zipped) will automatically:
<ul>
<li>lazyload your below the fold images/iframes/videos,</li>
<li>preload your featured images,</li>
<li>and add <code>loading="eager"</code> to your featured image and all images that have <code>no-lazy</code> or <code>skip-lazy</code> class.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/shop-extra/" rel="ugc">Shop Extra</a> – A lightweight plugin to optimize your WooCommerce & Business site:
<ul>
<li>Floating WhatsApp Chat Widget (can be use without WooCommerce),</li>
<li>WhatsApp Order Button for WooCommrece,</li>
<li>Hide/Disable WooCommerce Elements,</li>
<li>WooCommerce Strings Translations,</li>
<li>and many more.</li>
</ul>
</li>
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<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/animate-on-scroll/" rel="ugc">Animate on Scroll</a> – Animate any Elements on scroll using the popular AOS JS library simply by adding class names. This plugin helps you integrate easily with AOS JS library to add any AOS animations to WordPress. Simply add the desired AOS animation to your element class name with “aos-” prefix and the plugin will add the corresponding aos attribute to the element tag.
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</ul>

Image & Video Lightbox

Automatically adds Lightbox functionality to images and videos without the need to set the link to media file manually one by one.

Robert Neu

Ozzy Rodriguez

Cipher

WP Featherlight is a WordPress lightbox plugin for adding a minimal, high-performance, responsive jQuery lightbox to your WordPress website. At its core, WP Featherlight is a WordPress plugin wrapper for the Featherlight jQuery lightbox plugin. When installed, the plugin will automatically display all standard WordPress images and galleries in a simple, minimalistic lightbox popup.
In order for WordPress images and galleries to be lightboxed, you need to select the “Media File” option when choosing where the thumbnails should link. You can also select the “Custom Link” option if you make sure to link directly to an image file. This should work for any image file, even if it’s hosted on another website.
It’s also possible to lightbox videos, iframes, and ajax content with WP Featherlight by adding data attributes to your content. For more details on custom content loading, check out the <a href="https://github.com/noelboss/featherlight/#usage" rel="nofollow ugc">featherlight documentation</a>.
There are no settings for WP Featherlight, so you should be able to install it without needing to configure anything. In the event you don’t want a lightbox on certain pages or posts, there is an option to disable it from within the post editor screen.
If you find a display problem, it may be related to your theme but please <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-featherlight" rel="ugc">open an support request</a> about it so we can look into it. For more information about the Featherlight script itself, check out their <a href="http://noelboss.github.io/featherlight/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub plugin page</a>.
<h4>Developer Notes</h4>
While there are no options in the plugin, there are some handy filters to modify the default behavior. As of <code>0.3.0</code> all images which use the default WordPress captions will also include a caption when the image is lightboxed. To disable this behavior, filter <code>wp_featherlight_captions</code> to false.
You can also disable inclusion of the CSS and JavaScript conditionally using filters which can be found in the <code>/includes/class-scripts.php</code> file. If you have questions about how any part of the plugin works, please don’t hesitate to <a href="https://github.com/cipherdevgroup/wp-featherlight/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">open an issue on GitHub</a>.
<h4>Contributing</h4>
If you’d like to submit code patches or contribute in any other way, please <a href="https://github.com/cipherdevgroup/wp-featherlight" rel="nofollow ugc">fork the plugin on GitHub</a>.

WP Featherlight – A Simple jQuery Lightbox

Needed a lightbox for a project. Installed an other one first which had tons of (for me unnecessary) features and slowed down the page. Downloaded some more of the usual suspects from the repo and just compared them by size. Instead of almost 4 MB (the a.m. one) I came down to less than 200 kB. And it just does what it's supposed to do. Nothing more, nothing less. And the page flies … !

If you care for pagespeed … this is for you!

just been trying 5/6 different lightbox plugins, all of which failed to work and had 100's of options.

tried this one after looking at featherlight Jquery and integrating it directly, this cropped up and I can happily report "it just works"

Thank you 



First lightbox plugin to work out of the box

Sure, it's not full of options, but it does it job and does it well, no bloat. When I need it, it just works.

Thanks for sharing it and the continuous update.

Simple and light

I love minimalism, saving resources and increasing speed, so this is for sure my choice (even though I expect that a recent review was right that the closing could be better on mobiles).

But I needed to extend the captions on pictures to include a copyright notice in the lightbox view (which would have been too much in page view). So I looked at the code and found that the WordPress media library is not queried at all, so no way will we get the media library description for an image.

This is how to get out of that problem with some manual coding on pages: JS finds all images on the page, and gets their captions e.g. target.parent().find( '.wp-caption-text' )

So if the caption contains a this can be used together with the class „featherlight“ of the outer lightbox <div> to add an extended description hidden on the page via CSS but shown in the lightbox.

Thanks to all the contributors and PLEASE keep this great plugin alive!

Super light, no bloat, tip to extend caption in lightbox

An ultra lightweight jQuery lightbox for WordPress images and galleries.

Image & Video Lightbox vs WP Featherlight – A Simple jQuery Lightbox