• Can someone please recommend a simple basic no-nonsense lightbox? I have tried every one I can find and they all either (A) have gimmicky design and dumb functions that I don’t want, or (B) are good except for a crippling bug that no one in the forums could help me with.

    My needs are extremely simple, namely:

    – display the caption in the thumbnail and in the lightbox photo itself

    – show thumbnails as actual exact miniature replicas of the photos in their actual exact proportions and not cropped into squares or other shapes

    These are the only plug-ins that meet these requirements, and their respective bugs:

    Easy FancyBox – does not display captions

    Responsive Lightbox by D-Factory – lightboxes cycle through images collected at random from completely unrelated posts

    Simple Lightbox – the lightbox cycles through all the images in the post as though they were in a gallery together. In other words when you click on any ‘free-standing’ (non-gallery) image in a post, a lightbox pops up and when you click on that, instead of going away it advances to the next non-gallery image.

    These are the other plug-ins I have tried and that don’t have what I want for various reasons (design, functions etc.):

    FooGallery
    Photo Gallery
    Simple Lightbox Gallery
    aka “Simple Gallery Lightbox Gallery”

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