Ultimate Lightbox no longer supported?

Hi raoul,

The Ultimate Lightbox is a separate plugin from Ultimate Slider and is still very much supported. In fact, we released an update recently for WordPress 6.4 compatibility. And we will continue to release maintenance updates as needed.

It is not available on the website because there is no pay/premium version. Since this is a fully free plugin with only this one completely free version, all of the information and support for it is here on www.ads-software.com.

Regarding pending and new feature requests, it all depends on the demand of the request. If there is a high demand for a specific request, it usually gets scheduled ahead of lower-demand requests. Of course, there are also other factors, such as how challenging it is, how much availability we have, how likely it is to affect other features, the realistic amount of users who will actually benefit from it, etc.

Hi – thanks for the answer, and good to know the plugin is still supported, It is in its base a good plugin that’s also very well customisable (cosmetically) through css.
I understand factors such as demand and extend to which people will benefit from an added feature, and the priorities you have to make in resources. However, it’s also perhaps good to realise that many people will install plugins, try them out quickly, and the moment they bump into an issue they will be gone (because there are many really bad plugins). They won’t first try to submit feature requests and go into dialogs with the developer. So the amount of demand (or rather the lack thereof) for a certain feature is not necessarily a good indicator of the actual necessity of that feature.

There are many designers, artists, photographers, etc, who organise their work in projects. It happens often that a project has only one image (for example one painting) while other projects might have multiple images. It does not make sense to show ‘previous’/’next’ arrows in the lightbox when there is only one image to be seen. This confuses visitors to no end because they will be clicking stuff that leads nowhere. You could perhaps (in my humble opinion) argue that fixing this is more akin a bug-fix (or a conceptual omission) than it would be a feature addition…

In my personal case I have solved it by adding css to project pages and hiding the arrows when applicable. This means I need to add a custom field to each project and indicate if it contains one image only, convert that field to a class, and then hide the targeted element. Not everyone of your potential users will be able to implement that kind of fixes – meaning they will probably just deactivate your plugin.

Cheers

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Thanks for the input. I definitely understand where you’re coming from and we’ve definitely got it on our list. Hopefully it’s something we can add at some point.