Lightbox does not work

@dk878124 – There could be a plugin conflict going on here or at least it should be ruled out. Have you tried deactivating all of your plugins, clearing your browser cache (and site caches if you are using a caching plugin), then reactivating the NextGEN plugin?

If this fixes the problem then it was likely one of the deactivated plugins that was causing an issue. Now, retrace your steps activating each plugin and re-checking to see if the problem returns. If it does then that last activated plugin was probably the one. Keep reactivating and in most cases it is also best to keep checking after each plugin, sometimes there may be more than one plugin on a site that will create an issue. If you do find one (or more) plugins causing this problem we would greatly appreciate your feedback on them so the developers may address them as soon as they can.

Also to note, in rare cases it may be the theme itself that is causing a conflict so while you have just the NextGEN plugin activated you might consider temporarily switching to one of the default WordPress Twenty series themes and see if this corrects the issue as well.

If the problem still persists after all of this we would still want to know, even more so, as we will still want to sort out the issue and may need additional details.

Thanks!

– Cais.

This is yet another regression of the lightbox setting bug that has occurred numerous times since the plugin was taken over by Photocrati. It’s one of the regressions I always check for when a new version comes out because happens regularly. Sometimes the setting gets erased, sometimes it gets mangled, and other times the HTML code produced get mangled, which is what is happening this time.

In Gallery > Other Options > Lightbox Effects > What effect would you like to use?

if you choose “Custom” and insert in the Code box any of the following:

rel=’lightbox[ ]’
rel=”lightbox[ ]”
rel=’lightbox[]’
rel=”lightbox[]”
rel=lightbox[]

the lightbox won’t appear and you’ll just get the large image without any lightboxing. For years now I’ve been using Lightbox Plus Colorbox, and am now at the current version 2.7.2. This lightbox was working fine with NGG 2.1.23 and broke again with 2.1.26.

You can see the result of the broken NGG code by viewing the HTML produced, which is incorrect and is why any lightbox using rel=lighbox[] is not appearing.

hi, thank you for your answers. i tried all your options, but nothing worked unfortunately. The gallerie pictures displayed always in full-screen. I tried to add new gallieres, change themes, custom Codes in Lightbox effects, disabled and activated all plugins with clearing browser cache – without good results…. Do you have one more idea ? ??
Thank you for your support

@dk878124 try this code

data-rel=”lightbox[gallery-%GALLERY_NAME%]”

here https://grab.by/P3c8

@dk878124 – Please send us a Bug Report (https://imagely.com/report-bug/ … please reference this topic) so we can get a better look under the page at your site.

Please include as many details as you can about your site and the issue at hand so we can move on this as fast as possible.

Thanks!

– Cais.

@aldon – Thanks for the great idea to make Lightbox Plus Colorbox work separately on multiple NGG galleries on a page/post (it already works for native WordPress galleries). However, the code only works if you’ve got the “Lightbox Plus Colorbox – Base Settings” set to “Output Valid HTML5” AND you’ve put “rel” (instead of the default “lightboxplus”) in the “HTML Data attribute” box. If you use the default in Lightbox Plus Colorbox, for NGG in “Gallery > Other Options > Lightbox Effects”, the code becomes:

data-lightboxplus="lightbox[gallery-%GALLERY_NAME%]"

@photocrati – Looks like NGG 2.1.31 fixed the issue I was having. It’s working now. Thanks!

@thenightrider – Thanks for the follow-up … and the additional details about Colorbox.

– Cais.

Thank you for your answers. Where i can find LightboxPlus to download and install?

@dk878124 – Have you looked in the WordPress plugin repository: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/lightbox-plus/

– Cais.

@dk878124 and @photocrati – https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/lightbox-plus/ apparently is not in the repository anymore. On 12 April 2015 Wordfence found some bogus advertising code in some of the plugin files, and I reported this on the support page (which is now gone but I have screenshots): https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/lightbox-plus . That was for version 2.7.2 and I don’t think I ever got a response, but now I can’t confirm that because the plugin has disappeared. As far as I can tell there has been no version update since 2.7.2. Maybe it has been abandoned or maybe it is being worked on, but there is also no news from the developer, Dan Zappone, at https://www.23systems.net/wordpress-plugins/lightbox-plus-for-wordpress/ . However, you can download lightbox-plus.zip from that site and it is still version 2.7.2.

It would be unfortunate if the plugin has been abandoned because it has been excellent and has some useful options that no other lightbox I’ve run across so far has. The secondary lightbox option in particular can come in very handy. Of course, I could be wrong about capabilities because as of now there are 44,081 plugins in the repository and there may be a super one now out. Maybe there is even a fork. I haven’t researched it yet.

Unfortunately, too many half-baked lightbox plugins exist in the repository, so you can spend a lot of time testing them to discover their limitations. Too often these are deceptively crippled so that the repository version is not really usable, and these will come with built-in ads to a paid “premium” or “pro” version that gives a minimum level of functionality. Paid plugins with extra functionality can be fine if you need the extras. NextGEN Plus and Pro are good examples. Developers of good fully-functional plugins in the repository tend to get donations to support their good work, but developers of deceptively crippled plugins probably never do, and that’s what they deserve for their deception.

A competent and motivated developer could of course fork the Lightbox Plus Colorbox 2.7.2 code and keep it going.

@thenightrider – Thanks for sharing your research to date and the feedback as well.

– Cais.