Dan Zappone

Yes, should be fixed in next release.

@adam – Glad it worked out.

@Niackery – The latest version of the beta should automatically move your settings over. Even if you manually install it. The only caveat is that I’ve limited the number of inline lightboxes to 50 due to a number of factors. However I made them re-usable.

@stanji It looks like it’s not pickup the style. Take a look at Lightbox Plus Colorbox – Base Settings –> Styles and make sure a style is chosen. Also I just updated all the files so you might want to grab the latest beta.

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I’m very close to releasing version 2.8.

It’s not complicated. In most cases you needn’t do anything except activate the plugin and set some basic settings as to how big of a lightbox you want and the plugin does the rest. If you are trying to put custom content in a lightbox you might have gotten further by clicking on the little help icons next to each setting. For example

Use Secondary Lightbox: If checked, Lightbox Plus Colorbox will create a secondary lightbox with an additional set of controls. This secondary lightbox can be used to create inline or iFramed content using a class to specify the content. Default: Unchecked

Add Inline Lightboxes: If checked, Lightbox Plus Colorbox will add the selected number of additional lightboxes that you can use to manuall add inline lightboxed content to. Additional controls will be available at the bottom of the Lightbox Plus Colorbox admin page. Default: Unchecked

Once you get that far and tick those off more options are displayed with instructions on how to use them to manually insert content. They are deliberately hidden because for most uses the basic setting which are automatic are sufficient for most people. Additionally there are multiple examples at the Lightbox Plus for WordPress Demos page of how to use secondary and inline lightboxes for custom content.

As for you Mr. Zakharia, I find it quite strange that you have gone, rather obsessively, out of your way to post about how “terrible” the plugin is in so many places including here, Facebook, Google+, probably twitter and who knows where else. If you don’t like the plugin, don’t use it but otherwise leave off. It’s free, as in speech, which does not include support or even that I be clear in how to use the software.

I’m one person working on this, I make virtually no money from it, I get the occasional donation and that’s about it. I have other responsibilities which take precedence over development of this plugin and, generally, when time allows, development takes precedence over documentation. If you’d like to write comprehensive documentation for it I would love to have the help.

So rather than complain about how terrible it is, you might ask what you can do to make it better as seem to be rather interested in its functionality.

It’s all in the stylesheets. If you’re proficient with CSS you should be able to adopt and existing style to to work. I don’t think I can get anything into the next version but I might be able to add a javascript help that will do it automatically in the version following.

Also, in the next version there will be an option to disable on mobile devices which won’t solve you caption problem but might make the experience a bit better.

Did you install over an old version? You might need to use the reset option at the bottom of the admin panel. I haven’t finished the database update code yet and made substantial changes to how the options are stored.

EDIT: so I’ve seen that happen before and what it’s doing is sending the image as not an image. If you reset the plugin double check that Primary Settings -> Other -> Files as Photo is not checked.

From the readme:

Troubleshooting

Please read the FAQ first if you are having problems.

At present due to other commitments and that the plugin is provided freely we can offer no support and it is provided as is.

You can get community support for Lightbox Plus Colorbox via the support forums.

Please do not contact Jack Moore the author of Colorbox for issues with Lightbox Plus Colorbox.

Ah… Er… I got distracted and forgot to push the latest code to dev. I’ve now done so and I think it ought to work this time.

I should also have prefaced the post with “things may not work as expected.”

I’m using a multisite install to see if I can replicate.

I’m not sure to be honest. There doesn’t seem to be any difference in the embed settings for YouTube between HD and low-res versions. I’ll look around and see what I can find.

For some reason, which I have yet to identify and I did not have the problem in any tests the plugin is not maintaining the secondary style. The default was originally lbpModal but I changed it to lbp_secondary. I am looking into the problem. You should be able to go to Secondary Lightbox Settings -> Other -> Secondary Class Name and change it to lbpModal and save you settings. It should then work again. Please let me know if it doesn’t save the setting or if after changing the setting the secondary lightbox no longer functions.

No problem sorry it took me so long. Let me know because my gallery code is uses their gallery code and probably passes the same problem through.

I totally understand. Thanks for using Lightbox Plus when you were. If you use it again let me know if it that same behavior happens and hopefully I can get it sorted out.

How’s it working out? Did I miss anything?

@mike Padua – that is correct. Unfortunately I’m way behind in creating decent documentation.

@tzdk Right on. Was digging through some old code and found that example.