If you use a lot of images in your blog, you’ll definitely want to have a Lightbox plugin to jazz up the previews and display of your images.
To give you an example of how this works, click on any of the thumbnails below and you’ll see the lightbox preview window, with the ability to browse all the images.
To do this effortlessly on your WordPress blog, you need to download the Lightbox 2 plugin for WordPress, and upload the entire folder to your plugins directory.
Then, activate the plugin and go to the “Options” page (or the “Settings” page in WordPress 2.5). Here you can select different color schemes but after trying all of them I still prefer the default “black” color scheme.
To activate the lightbox effect, you need to add this code to every link you create:
rel="lightbox"
Of course this can be automated using another brilliant plugin called the “Add Lightbox” plugin. Once you install this plugin, all thumbnail images linked to the source image will automatically use the lightbox preview codes.
If you’re a photographer or have an image-heavy blog, this will make your site seem much cooler!
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Not that interesting, but im sure it will come in handy for people that dont know how to search google, and visit this site.
It does makes the site more jazzy. But I’ll stick to traditional method for now. Perhaps when I get a new DSLR camera and start a photo journal blog.
I’d prefer highslide plugin the better. Its good to have many options however. Good post.
That’s a cool effect, but it would be even nicer as a purchase button.
If the larger image shown in the lightbox could take you to the payment page when clicked, that would be extremely useful. It would be possible to turn your blog pages into individual sales pages with some rather snazzy order links.
It would be too cool to use this plugin for celebrity and entertainment blogs. I m sure, it will definitely work well for that niche
definitely a cool plugin–i’ve just installed it on my wordpress blog. since i’m not a big fan of the white lightbox borders, i especially like that you can change the background color.
but how can i get a caption to show up underneath the photo?
On the photo code
Add title=”your caption text”>
So it would look like
Hope this helps you.