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I have been using this “WP Featherlight – A Simple jQuery Lightbox” plugin for many years and it’s my favorite. But the plugin is not updated for more then 3 years, is it safe to use?
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Light ‘n easy!
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Light weight, easy to use, no issues. Recommended!
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It is what it promises, light as a feather.
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I love minimalism, saving resources and increasing speed, so this is for sure my choice (even though I expect that a recent review was right that the closing could be better on mobiles).
But I needed to extend the captions on pictures to include a copyright notice in the lightbox view (which would have been too much in page view). So I looked at the code and found that the WordPress media library is not queried at all, so no way will we get the media library description for an image.
This is how to get out of that problem with some manual coding on pages: JS finds all images on the page, and gets their captions e.g. target.parent().find( ‘.wp-caption-text’ )
So if the caption contains a <span> this can be used together with the class ?featherlight“ of the outer lightbox <div> to add an extended description hidden on the page via CSS but shown in the lightbox.
Thanks to all the contributors and PLEASE keep this great plugin alive!
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Sure, it’s not full of options, but it does it job and does it well, no bloat. When I need it, it just works.
Thanks for sharing it and the continuous update.
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The only way to exit from viewing photos with this plugin on mobile is to tap the X on top right corner (inconvenient for mobile) or to tap outside the photo. If the user tries to flick to close the photo to see the page/post, he will not only discover it does not work, but he will have scrolled far from where he originally was. Then if he tries to exit using the back button, not only will the photo not close, but the browser will close entirely or go back to a previous page.
I would keep this plugin if it allowed users to swipe to close, or allowed users to use the back button to close. At the very least, disable scrolling while viewing. I don’t believe addressing the above would affect performance or make it less lightweight.
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just been trying 5/6 different lightbox plugins, all of which failed to work and had 100’s of options.
tried this one after looking at featherlight Jquery and integrating it directly, this cropped up and I can happily report “it just works”
Thank you
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I have a mix of Elementor pages with their own lightbox and posts with single images, which still needed a lightbox. This plugin is exactly what I wanted. Just turn it off for Elementor pages and all other images open nicely in a lightbox. I tried other plugins first, and they caused conflicts with the built in Elementor lightbox.
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Needed a lightbox for a project. Installed an other one first which had tons of (for me unnecessary) features and slowed down the page. Downloaded some more of the usual suspects from the repo and just compared them by size. Instead of almost 4 MB (the a.m. one) I came down to less than 200 kB. And it just does what it’s supposed to do. Nothing more, nothing less. And the page flies … !
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Thanks for making my life easier with a plugin that does exactly what I want right out of the box!
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Firstly, apologies for rating 1 star, but there’s no other option.
For some reason, this plug-in didn’t work for me. My WordPress version is 4.6.18, and despite setting the images to ‘Media File’, the lightbox didn’t show up.
In addition, the plug-in seems to cause the pages to go blank/white after a few seconds of loading. The homepage loads and stays, but the posts go blank after a few seconds.
Those who’re thinking of installing this plug-in, please be cautious.
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Great plugin! Had a problem when block editor was introduced but that is fixed. Thank you!
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This was a superb plugin. It looks as if, like many things, changes to WP are rendering very hard for the authors to keep the functionality accessible easily and they don’t appear confident that they will be able to retain that longer term. Support on my particular issue sorted it in the end but was not sorted at first but marked “resolved. That was explained as the problem being down to WP not the plugin(!) In fact it was an issue of understanding the very limited documentation and unclear advice and could have been sorted in one simple reply. Links from plugin information on WP site to company site broken. General feeling the company haven’t thought things through. Great pity as the core functionality, working on top of featherlight.js, is excellent.
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Shazam. Install the plugin, and all your images are displayed in a clean, simple lightbox.
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Perhaps the best and most lightest lightbox I know for WordPress.
An always install plugin in my book.
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I have this installed on two sites, and have no issues.
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Exactly what we were looking for! Works fine with WP 5.2.2
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Worked well for a client’s website today. Great plugin! Just be sure to mind the documentation when installing.
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Extra !
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Nothing extra. Speed, simplicity, necessity.
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Modern lightbox style with minimal clutter.
No settings/configuration.
Works with multisite and NextGen Gallery.
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The best lightbox plugin that I have found. Easy to set up, lightweight and works like a charm.
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Fab no fuss plugin. Works on 5.1.1. All good!
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It’s time for me to quit looking for the perfect lightbox plugin. WP Featherlight does what I need, is genuinely better performing than others (even “simple” ones) and works a treat on mobile devices.
If I had to nitpick, the font used on the captions isn’t my favorite. But every other thing about this lightbox suits me right down to the ground. For what it’s worth my site is WP 5.0.3 and WP Featherlight works fine even if not actually listed as being tested on my version.
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Simple. At first, I thought it didn’t work until I saw the x-icon to close the image. You can close it by clicking the image also. Very intuitive. Configuration isn’t all that hard if you want to change the look. Great work!!!
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Thank you for this awesome plugin!
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I was searching for simple lightbox, where I could just add CSS to show border around image. This is exactly what I needed. I don’t need tons of another unnecessary options.
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No unnecessary bells and whistles. It just works. Thanks.
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Thank you very much for this plugin. Simple and effective.
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