WP Colorbox

WP Colorbox 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.

Features

• Beautiful lightbox popup style
• Flexiblity of creating your own lightbox link
• Pop up custom/HTML content in lightbox
• Trigger lightbox from either a text/image link
• Add lightbox to a YouTube or Vimeo video link
• Enable lightbox functionality on your site which supports modern browsers
• Use a simple shortcode to pop up a media file in lightbox
• Apply lightbox effect on images inserted into WordPress post/page
• Open external page in lightbox using iframe
• Responsive lightbox popup which works on mobile devices. Also it fits perfectly on smaller screens.

How to Use WP Colorbox

Pop up image in lightbox

Create a new post/page and use the following shortcode to create a text/image link which will trigger lightbox once clicked:

[wp_colorbox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" type="image" hyperlink="click here to pop up image"]

here, url is the link to the media file that you wish to open in lightbox and hyperlink is the anchor text/image.

[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"]

Pop up YouTube video in lightbox

[wp_colorbox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nmp3Ra3Yj24" type="youtube" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video"]

Pop up Vimeo video in lightbox

[wp_colorbox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1284237" type="vimeo" hyperlink="click here to pop up vimeo video"]

Specify an Alternate Text for an Image

[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"]

Apply Custom CSS

You can specify your own CSS class in the shortcode to customize a text/image link.

[wp_colorbox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nmp3Ra3Yj24" type="youtube" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video" class="custom_class"]

Multiple CSS classes can be separated with a space. For example:

[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"]

For detailed documentation please visit the WordPress Colorbox plugin page

1. Go to the Add New plugins screen in your WordPress Dashboard
2. Click the upload tab
3. Browse for the plugin file (wp-colorbox.zip) on your computer
4. Click “Install Now” and then hit the activate button

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   Image popup in lightbox

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   YouTube video popup in lightbox

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   Vimeo video popup in lightbox

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   External page popup in lightbox

1.1.6

• Removed title option.

1.1.5

• Made some security related improvements in the plugin.

1.1.4

• Removed some unused files.

1.1.3

• Made some security related improvements in the plugin.

1.1.2

• Updated Colorbox to the latest version (1.6.4).

1.1.1

• Compatible with WordPress 4.8
• Updated all the permalinks

1.1.0

• Disabled scrolling option for YouTube and Vimeo videos.

1.0.9

• Alt (alternate text) attribute can now be specified in the shortcode for a thumbnail image.

1.0.8

• Added translation option so the plugin can take advantage of language packs
• WP Colorbox is now compatible with WordPress 4.4

1.0.7

• WP Colorbox is now compatible with WordPress 4.3

1.0.6

• Added a new shortcode parameter to apply custom CSS classes on a text/image link

1.0.5

• Added a new shortcode parameter to show the title of a media in lightbox

1.0.4

• colorbox shortcodes can now be embedded in a text widget

1.0.3

• Lightbox now opens full-sized images

1.0.2

• Lightbox window is now responsive

1.0.1

• WP Colorbox is now compatible with WordPress 3.9

1.0

• First commit