Description

DISCONTINUATION NOTICE: Development on this plugin has ceased in favor of the carousel module in the Jetpack plugin. I recommend you use that plugin instead — it’s much more full featured.

Makes the native WordPress galleries use a lightbox script called ColorBox to display the fullsize images right there in the page. No modifications required.

You can also make single non-[gallery] images use the lightbox by giving their links a class of “lightbox”, like so:

<a href="..." class="lightbox"><img src="..." alt="..." /></a>

Installation

Log into the administration area of your blog and click on Plugins -> Add New in the menu. Search for the name of this plugin and then click install on the right side, and then again in the pop-up window.

FAQ

Installation Instructions: Log into the administration area of your blog and click on Plugins -> Add New in the menu. Search for the name of this plugin and then click install on the right side, and then again in the pop-up window.

Reviews

Isaac Newton Ribeiro de Araújo October 18, 2020

O jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries não funciona na versão 5.5.1 do WordPress. Todas as publicações e páginas ficam em branco quando ele é ativado. Curiosamente, o problema não se repete quando outro plugin lightbox é ativado, mas a aparência das galerias de imagens não é boa.

Tom May 22, 2020

Great. Works until now with the latest WordPress.

Read all 10 reviews

Contributors & Developers

“jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Alex Mills

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Changelog

Version 3.2.2

Update ColorBox to v1.3.14 (see it’s changelog). Fixes functionality under WordPress 3.1.

Version 3.2.1

Update ColorBox to v1.3.8 (see it’s changelog).

Version 3.2.0

Make any link that has the class lightbox into a lightbox. No grouping or anything, at least for now.

Version 3.1.4

Don’t change the attachment link inside the admin area.

Version 3.1.3

Update ColorBox to v1.3.6 (see it’s changelog).

Version 3.1.2

Remove IE PNG fixes as they require a full URL and it’s not worth the trouble. Works well enough in IE8.
Change how groups of images are labeled (use a random number rather than the gallery’s ID so it works with the Twenty Ten theme).

Version 3.1.1

Update ColorBox to v1.3.4.

Version 3.1.0

Update ColorBox to v1.3.3.
Include all five of the default ColorBox themes and add a settings page to pick between them.
Change the lightbox maxwidth and maxheight to 95% as I think it looks better.

Version 3.0.2

Don’t do anything inside of feeds (i.e. modify the thumbnail links).

Version 3.0.1

Fix spelling mistake on the ColorBox style ID.

Version 3.0.0

Switch the awesome ColorBox. It looks pretty and does large image resizing. Yay!

Version 2.0.1

Remove an extra comma that was breaking stupid Internet Explorer. Props Troy.

Version 2.0.0

Switched lightbox scripts as I was unhappy with the previous one.

Version 1.1.0

Update jquery_lightbox package. It now supports resizing images that are too large as well as not disabling IE6 support.
Makes the lightbox gallery-aware, i.e. don’t allow next/prev between image sets. Thanks to Benjamin “balupton” Lupton!

Version 1.0.1

Better WordPress 2.6 support (i.e. when you have a moved plugins directory).

Version 1.0.0

Initial release.