Evan Herman

<p>Lity – Responsive Lightboxes is a lightweight, accessible and responsive lightbox plugin.</p>
<p>After installation, all images on your site will open up in a beautiful lightbox.</p>
<p>With additional granular controls, users can turn on or off lightboxes for specific images by class, ID or other attribute, or turn them off for specific pages or posts.</p>
<ul>
<li>Lightweight</li>
<li>Accessible</li>
<li>Responsive</li>
<li>Support for Lightbox Captions</li>
<li>Translation Ready</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>This software uses the following open source packages:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://sorgalla.com/lity/" rel="nofollow ugc">Lity</a> by <a href="https://github.com/jsor" rel="nofollow ugc">Jan Sorgalla</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/brianvoe/slim-select" rel="nofollow ugc">Slimselect</a> by <a href="https://github.com/brianvoe" rel="nofollow ugc">Brian Voelker</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/yairEO/tagify" rel="nofollow ugc">Tagify</a> by <a href="https://github.com/yairEO" rel="nofollow ugc">Yair Even Or</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Props to <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/brothman01/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ben Rothman</a> for the plugin idea and testing.</p>
<h3>1.0.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>Initial Release.</li>
</ul>


Lity – Responsive Lightboxes


This saved me a lot of time by being exactly what I was looking for! Thank you for making it work with existing images so I did not have to rebuild my entire site.


perfect for my needs

A lightweight, accessible and responsive WordPress lightbox plugin.

Zack Katz

<blockquote><p><strong>WordPress 3.4 Supports HTML in Captions!</strong><br />
Basic HTML support has been added to the caption field in the image uploader. This allows you to add links – great for photo credits or licensing details – and basic formatting such as bold and italicized text.
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<h3>For WordPress 3.3.2 and earlier…finally you can add links to your image captions.</h3>
<p>Adding links to captions is the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/view/top-rated" rel="nofollow ugc">9th most popular request</a> in the WordPress Ideas forum.</p>
<p>With this plugin, you can also <strong>use <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API" rel="nofollow ugc">shortcodes</a> in captions</strong>.</p>
<h4>How to use</h4>
<p>Inside the <code>caption</code> input, you can now add a link by using the following format: <code>{a href="http://www.example.com"}Anchor text here{/a}</code>, or alternatively you could use <code>{link url="http://www.example.com"}Anchor text here{/link}</code>.</p>
<p><strong>You can also specify <code>target</code>, <code>title</code>, and <code>rel</code> attributes:</strong> <code>{link url="http://www.example.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="I never could do this before!"}Anchor text here{/link}</code></p>
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<h4>You may also be interested in:</h4>
<p><strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rich-text-tags/" rel="ugc">Rich Text Tags</a></strong> – Enable rich text editing of tags, categories, and taxonomies. Add value to your tag & category pages and improve your website’ SEO.</p>
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Links in Captions

Easily add links to image captions in the WordPress editor.

Lity – Responsive Lightboxes vs Links in Captions