Noor Alam

<p><a href="https://noorsplugin.com/wordpress-colorbox-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Colorbox</a> plugin is a simple lightbox tool for WordPress. It allows users to pop up content in lightbox using the popular jQuery ColorBox library. They can also view the larger version of a particular media file without leaving the page.</p>
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<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Beautiful lightbox popup style</li>
<li>Flexiblity of creating your own lightbox link</li>
<li>Pop up custom/HTML content in lightbox</li>
<li>Trigger lightbox from either a text/image link</li>
<li>Add lightbox to a YouTube or Vimeo video link</li>
<li>Enable lightbox functionality on your site which supports modern browsers</li>
<li>Use a simple shortcode to pop up a media file in lightbox</li>
<li>Apply lightbox effect on images inserted into WordPress post/page</li>
<li>Open external page in lightbox using iframe</li>
<li>Responsive lightbox popup which works on mobile devices. Also it fits perfectly on smaller screens.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How to Use WP Colorbox</h4>
<p><strong>Pop up image in lightbox</strong></p>
<p>Create a new post/page and use the following shortcode to create a text/image link which will trigger lightbox once clicked:</p>
<pre><code>[wp_colorbox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" type="image" hyperlink="click here to pop up image"]
</code></pre>
<p>here, url is the link to the media file that you wish to open in lightbox and hyperlink is the anchor text/image.</p>
<pre><code>[wp_colorbox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" type="image" hyperlink="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/thumb.jpg"]
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Pop up YouTube video in lightbox</strong></p>
<pre><code>[wp_colorbox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nmp3Ra3Yj24" type="youtube" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video"]
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Pop up Vimeo video in lightbox</strong></p>
<pre><code>[wp_colorbox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1284237" type="vimeo" hyperlink="click here to pop up vimeo video"]
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Specify an Alternate Text for an Image</strong></p>
<pre><code>[wp_colorbox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" title="overlay image" type="image" hyperlink="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/thumb.jpg" alt="Thumbnail image description"]
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Apply Custom CSS</strong></p>
<p>You can specify your own CSS class in the shortcode to customize a text/image link.</p>
<pre><code>[wp_colorbox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nmp3Ra3Yj24" type="youtube" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video" class="custom_class"]
</code></pre>
<p>Multiple CSS classes can be separated with a space. For example:</p>
<pre><code>[wp_colorbox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nmp3Ra3Yj24" type="youtube" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video" class="custom_class custom_class2"]
</code></pre>
<p>For detailed documentation please visit the <a href="https://noorsplugin.com/wordpress-colorbox-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Colorbox</a> plugin page</p>


WP Colorbox

Having to go to a website to see how to use this should be a huge no-no. Will not recommend this plugin to anyone.

Missing in-plugin documentation

View image, video (YouTube, Vimeo), page, inline HTML, custom content in lightbox. Add jQuery Colorbox lightbox effect to your WordPress site.

Katsushi Kawamori

<h4>Integrates Colorbox, Slimbox, Nivo Lightbox and Photoswipe into WordPress.</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 6.4 or later, it works if “LINK TO” is set to “Media FIle” in the block editor’s gallery. It does not work when embedding media by itself.</li>
<li>This plugin will only work if you specify the media in the <a> tag.</li>
<li>Can switch the effect to each user agent.</li>
<li>Add effect to the WordPress gallery.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Contributors</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://ninosego.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ninos Ego</a> ( <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ninos-ego/" rel="nofollow ugc">ninos-ego</a> )</li>
<li><a href="http://a4jp.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Glen Charles Rowell</a> ( <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/a4jpcom/" rel="nofollow ugc">a4jpcom</a> )</li>
</ul>


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