[Plugin: jQuery Colorbox] Not Showing Up

Hi,
I have had a few replies of people who use the plugin on theor blogs, and I have 6 blogs running myself, jQuery Colorbox is working on all of them.

Could you please tell me a URL for a blog where the plugin does not work? I’ll be happy to debug the problem for you.

Best regards,
Arne

Thanks, Arne! Here’s the site.

Hello again,

the Problem seems to be the Plugin “cforms” which includes it’s own jQuery library (which is very bad practice). The jQuery Library is quite old and does not seem to support the stuff I do with my plugin.
Since I include jQuery in a non-conflicting way (using the jQuery library that is bundled with WordPress), cforms jQuery is loaded instead of that from WordPress.

I suppose you could ask the developers of “cforms” to consider updating their jQuery library or simply using the one that WordPress brings along.

Just for testing purposes: Could you try disabling cforms and check whether my plugin works after that?

Best regards,
Arne

I just saw that there is an updated version of cforms available on the developers website.
This version includes the jQuery version that I also use for my plugin.

Maybe you could try updating?

https://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin/

Thanks for checking it out, man! The site’s running the latest version of cforms (11.3) already. Still I disabled cforms and then tried JQ Colorbox, but it still didn’t work. Also, JQ Colorbox isn’t working on a second WP installation that has very few plugins. Thanks again for checking this out for me.

Hi,

1) icanstoptime.com:
Where do you expect jQuery Colorbox to work?
It seems that on your home, some plugin renders the gallery. Since I use rewriting of the HTML page to add a CSS class “colorbox-postID”, e.g. “colorbox-123” to the images and the class is not added for those images, I suspect the gallery plugin somehow adds the gallery after my plugin processes the HTML.
When I look at a blogpost like “https://icanstoptime.com/2010/somewhere-over-the-rainbow”, the thumbnail images are linked to pages and not to the original-sized images. This must be the case for jQuery Colorbox to work. (Note: here the images do have the colorbox CSS class: “colorbox-1053”)

2) hayestack.co.uk:
Strangely, your images do not have a “class” attribute:
<img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="184" alt="DSC00231" src="https://hayestack.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/DSC00231_thumb.jpg" width="244" border="0">
By default, WordPress always adds CSS classes to Images, I have no idea why it doesn’t on that blog. Maybe again some kind of plugin?

If there is no class attribute in the img tag to start with, jQuery Colorbox currently can’t add the colorbox-postID class to the img and therefore it does not work.

Best regards,
Arne

any news on your progress?
Do you still need my help?

Best regards,
Arne

Arne, thanks again man. I’ve been working on another project for the past couple days. I’ll have to devout more to this to sort it out. I appreciate your help!

Ok will wait for the new release, there’s a plugin called jQuery for Native Galleries which is similar to yours but yours works with 1 picture, the problem when I use it goes blank, when it try to pop up a pictures the whole page goes blank, neither ESC or Reload fix it…

@iogames: You mean you were using a builtin WordPress-Gallery?
jQuery Colorbox works if the gallery is pointing the links to the image.
Maybe you set the gallery options to link to the attachment page and your theme does not have an attachment.php?

Worked with both the image link and the attachment link in a fresh 2.9.1 installation with the WP Default Theme. Which version and theme are you using?

BTW: In the next jQuery Colorbox release, I’ll only allow Colorbox to work on image links.

@admaust:
version 3.2 (I’ll release it early next week) should resolve all problems you are having on your blogs. The Colorbox will work on NextGEN Galleries then.

Here is the link to the development version if you want to try it in the meantime:
https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/jquery-colorbox.zip
Best regards, Arne

Hello, I’m having the same problem… I’ve tried everything and tried dozens of other “lightbox” plugins and none of them work. It amazes me how some of these really complex plugins work the minute you install them but with all these lightbox plugins they all fail and/or require all this tweaking to get them to work… Why?

Here’s my blog

Sean

@iamseanbond:

the advanced videobox plugin breaks the Colorbox.
If you deactivate the videobox, my plugin will work.

For some reason, lots of people use the JavaScript libraries in a way that conflicts with other plugins…
Please tell the author of “Advanced Videobox” to read this article and include his jQuery library with “wp_enqueue_script(‘jquery’)”, then both plugins will work together:
https://planetozh.com/blog/2008/04/how-to-load-javascript-with-your-wordpress-plugin/

Best regards,
Arne

Hello.

I am really loosing hope and faith here as I have tried each and every lightbox, slimbox, colourbox there is and NOTHING works on my blog.
I tried different themes, I’ve tried inactivating ALL my plugins but it still wont work.

Could it be that my host for my blog (one.com) has some settings made at their servers that conflict? If so, then what?

What can I do?

I have to activate my plugins again to enable my website and keep it up and running. Please have a look: https://missmaddis.com

I would really appriciate help!!

Hi,
I have taken a look at your website, but the plugin does not seem to be active.
If the plugin is active right now, the wp_head(); function is probably missing from your theme’s header.php.
Best regards,
Arne