WP-Lytebox

Aug 3rd, 2007 by Jared Schwager ,

Lytebox WP-Lytebox is a plugin for WordPress which uses Lytebox to add a lightbox functionality like that of Lightbox 2.0 to images as well as HTML content such as web pages. This plugin will automatically group all the images linked to in a post into a gallery with next and previous links. The new version of Lytebox can be configured Advertisement from the Lytebox Options page in the WordPress admin panel.

Download v1.3.1 (compatible with WordPress 1.5 to 2.5)

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Grouped images example
Orion Nebula #1 Orion Nebula #2

Slideshow example
One of Jupiter’s moons, Io Milky Way Pleiads

HTML content examples

  1. Google search
  2. M42 – Orion Nebula

For more information on how to use the HTML content feature, check out the “How to Use” section on the Lytebox website.

Installation instructions

  • Unzip the file and upload the contents to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory on your web server.
  • Activate the plugin from your WordPress admin panel.
  • That’s all there is to it! Now Lytebox will be enabled on every thumbnail in your posts that is linked to the full-size version.
  • You can also configure how Lytebox works via the options page in your WordPress admin panel.

Changelog

  • 1.3.1 - unnecessary main.php file removed which contained an LFI vulnerability
  • 1.3 - lyteshow (slideshow) can be configured in WP admin panel, plugin will check for latest version on the Lytebox options page
  • 1.2 - numerous code optimizations, moved Lytebox options page under Presentation section of admin panel, added WP 1.5 compatibility
  • 1.1 - new Lytebox options page in WP admin panel, updated Lytebox to v3.22
  • 1.0.2 - fixed issues with Lytebox not loading
  • 1.0.1 - fixed minor bug mentioned by Bas
  • 1.0 - initial release

Thanks to everyone for the great response to this plugin! I’ll definitely be adding some new features in the near future.

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126 reader comments

  1. August 3rd, 2007 at 7:24 pm gekow says:
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    Nice thing, works out of the box :)

  2. August 3rd, 2007 at 10:36 pm WP Plugins DB » Plugin Details » WP-Lytebox says:
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  3. August 5th, 2007 at 12:38 am Weblog Tools Collection » Blog Archive » WordPress Plugin Releases for 8/5 says:
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  4. August 5th, 2007 at 1:12 am Ryan says:
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    Nice implementation. Do you have a demo of a flash video sample?

  5. August 5th, 2007 at 3:26 am Usagi says:
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    Great plug-in!! I really love it.

  6. August 5th, 2007 at 10:35 am WP-Lytebox | わーどぷれすっ! says:
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  7. August 5th, 2007 at 11:23 am Rhine says:
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    Beautiful plugin. Will it work with youtube videos?

  8. August 5th, 2007 at 12:56 pm Ian Harris says:
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    Great stuff! Works first time.

  9. August 5th, 2007 at 12:57 pm Jared Schwager says:
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    Actually, I forgot to update the description to reflect that YouTube videos do not work as far as I can tell. The odd thing about it is that I can see the flash video for about half a second and then it disappears. I’ll have to get in contact with the author of Lytebox and see if he can fix this in the next version.

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  11. August 5th, 2007 at 6:41 pm Rob says:
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    Cool. Is Wordpress free? Can I use Lytebox on Blogspot?

  12. August 5th, 2007 at 6:43 pm Jared Schwager says:
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    Rob, WordPress is most definitely free and it powers this blog. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to use it on Blogger since it doesn’t use the WordPress API and doesn’t allow for plugins. You may be able to use just Lytebox by itself on your Blogger blog though.

  13. August 5th, 2007 at 7:31 pm FatherStorm.com » wp-fatherstorm Wordpress Omni-Pack released says:
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  15. August 6th, 2007 at 8:31 pm My Links for July 31st through August 6th | Evan Roberts says:
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  16. August 7th, 2007 at 11:21 am Lytebox says:
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  17. August 8th, 2007 at 9:45 am LyteBox 2.0 at Superdopey’s Techblog says:
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    [...] Ik was al bekend met LightBox, nu is er ook LyteBox, die hetzelfde kan maar nu ook voor  HTML content. Voor de liefhebbers is er ook een WordPress smaakje [...]

  18. August 8th, 2007 at 12:51 pm WP-Lytebox WordPress Plugin at WordPress Themes, Plugins, Blog Tips, Make Money Online >> WPthemesplugin.com says:
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  19. August 8th, 2007 at 7:34 pm nyuuchi says:
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    It didn’t do the previous and next links in my grey box when I had multiple images in my post… what am I doing wrong?

  20. August 8th, 2007 at 8:44 pm Luciano Passuello says:
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    Great implementation!

    I’m having problems with 404 errors for ‘/wp-content​/plugins​/wp-lytebox​/images​/blank.gif’ – nothing apparent to the user, but it shows in my 404 log every time I open an image with Lytebox :(

    Any ideas on what could be happening?

  21. August 9th, 2007 at 10:57 am Jared Schwager says:
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    nyuuchi, by default Lytebox will use different next and previous links than I have display on my blog. Just hover your mouse over the right or left side of the image you’re currently viewing, and you should see little next and previous images pop up on either side. This preference can be changed in the lytebox.js file.

    Luciano, show me a working example of what you’re issue is and I’ll see what I can do.

  22. August 9th, 2007 at 3:13 pm Luciano Passuello says:
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    Hi Jared,
    I just found out what is happening. Line 26 in lytebox.css references a file called ‘blank.gif’ that is not in the download package.

    #lbPrev{width:49%;height:100%;background:transparent url(images/blank.gif) no-repeat;display:block;left:0;float:left;}

    Thanks again for the great plug-in.

  23. August 14th, 2007 at 10:47 am Two Days Running… It’s A Miracle! | franzone.com says:
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    [...] Anyway, here is the Nike+ graph from my run this morning. Click on it to view a larger version. BTW – How do you like the cool Lightbox effect? Compliments of the WP-LyteBox plugin. [...]

  24. August 16th, 2007 at 8:22 am Goodies from a special friend : Pixie’s Paraphernalia says:
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    [...] out a new photo plugin Lytebox Where there is more than one photo in a post you can view as a slide show.. Hover with your mouse [...]

  25. August 19th, 2007 at 8:18 am Bas says:
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    Thanks, this is a great alternative to the WordPress plugin for Lightbox! :)

    It works out of the box, but I had a few problems with older posts where the image links already had a rel="lightbox[group]". The plugin adds it’s own rel attribute instead of skipping or replacing an existing one.

    Maybe you could build in a fix for that… although it shouldn’t really be a problem for most users.

  26. August 19th, 2007 at 10:53 am Bas says:
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    By the way, the function lytebox_head() inserts a script tag with the language="javascript". This attribute has been deprecated in favour of type (which you did not forget in the tag, fortunately) and does not validate XHTML 1.0 Strict (which I am trying to use).

    I simply removed the language attribute from the plugin, maybe you could do the same in a future version.

  27. August 19th, 2007 at 2:52 pm Jared Schwager says:
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    Bas, thanks for pointing that out. I had just popped in the code that was presented on the Lytebox website and missed that.

  28. August 23rd, 2007 at 5:43 am People says:
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    Thank you very much!! this plugin is the best i can try, but i have a question, it’s possible make the funcion for the “excerpt” too?

    Regards.

  29. September 2nd, 2007 at 4:35 pm ravi says:
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    Hi:

    I downloaded the zip file, unzipped and activated the plugin. I uploaded the images, and inserted them as thumbnail linked to file, however this effect is still not coming up. I m using ver 2.2.2 of wordpress.

    Any help… am i doing something wrong or do i need to do some settings somewhere.

    Thanks

  30. September 2nd, 2007 at 9:11 pm Jared Schwager says:
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    ravi, email me a link to your website and I’ll see if I can’t find the problem.

  31. September 4th, 2007 at 1:50 am Mario says:
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    thank you for the excellent plugin.

    however, unfortunately, i have a problem. if i open my side about the url (http://poli.kilu.de/petzen) the plugin works. if i open my side about a domain (www.naturfreunde-petzen.at.tf) the plugin doesn’t work anymore. the picture opens in a new window without the lytebox effect.

    at the moment i am using the lightbox-plugin, because it works at both variants (url and domain). but i want to use the lyteshow-function of your plugin.

    thx
    mario

    ps: sorry for my bad english.

  32. September 5th, 2007 at 8:06 pm Jared Schwager says:
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    Mario, I’m not sure what’s going on. I’ll have to look into it.

  33. September 7th, 2007 at 6:10 pm Tom says:
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    Hi,
    I am having a similar problem…
    I installed the lyteBOx plugin and everything…
    When you check the source code it parses right (the rel link is good)…

    But the lytebox does not come up?
    Any suggestions?

  34. September 27th, 2007 at 11:52 pm Alex says:
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    Hey Jared,

    I used your plugin before and it is awesome, but now it’s not working anymore. I also deactivated all plugins but no change :(

    I’m using WP 2.2.3 . Would be great if you can have a look at it. Just go to http://afrison.de and check out the posts with one picture.

    Thanks for your help, I appreciate that

    Alex

  35. September 28th, 2007 at 8:59 am Jared Schwager says:
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    Alex, I’m not sure what to tell you. I don’t know why it’s not working, even after you deactivated all the other plugins. Are you using WP-Cache by any chance?

  36. September 28th, 2007 at 3:41 pm Alex says:
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    Hi Jared,

    no, chache is deactivated right now, still in the developing progress, so it’s not on.

    I don’t know why it’s not working. It’s such a great plugin, would be very sad if it’s not working. The thing is it worked before on the page, but now not.

    thanks for any help

    Alex

  37. September 29th, 2007 at 4:53 am Steven says:
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    Hi Jared,

    Having a similar issue with the lytebox not working. When clicked on the image it opens in another window.

    I’ve tried this on two separate blogs with the same results…

    /Steven

  38. September 29th, 2007 at 7:05 pm Jared Schwager says:
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    Steven, what version of WordPress are you using and what other plugins do you have installed?

  39. September 29th, 2007 at 11:15 pm Steven says:
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    Hi Jared,

    I have tried it on a couple of blogs, both using WOrdpress 2.2.2.
    One uses the Semiologic theme (and it’s associated plug-ins), and the other is a pretty straightforward WP blog with some SEO plug-ins and an AdManager (Adsense Deluxe type of plug-in).

    All I know is that Lytebox worked with another blog similar to the latter (with same plug-ins), but can not get it to work on my latest blog.

    /Steven

  40. October 1st, 2007 at 8:31 am eric says:
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    am having problem to view the image.

    all files needed already uploaded to my server and link it to my bloggers account.

    The problem is, when i click the pic, the background start to animate the way it should be, but the progress pic keep on going forever. What should I do to solve this matter?

    Thank you in advance…

  41. October 2nd, 2007 at 10:37 am Jared Schwager says:
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    Eric, send me a link to your blog and I’ll take a look at it.

    I’d appreciate it if everyone else who is having problem with this plugin could send me links to your blogs so I can look into the problem a bit further.

  42. October 7th, 2007 at 12:52 am James Revillini says:
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    jesus christ on a bicycle! this is hot!!!

  43. October 7th, 2007 at 1:29 am James Revillini says:
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    that problem everyone seems to be experiencing cleared up when i replaced your packed version of the lytebox.js file with the one from the lytebox site. i’m still interested in getting your working. Yours is 31kb lighter. thanks for all you’ve done. here’s your plugin in action, and helping to save abandoned bunnies and rats: http://veganpeople.net/

  44. October 7th, 2007 at 8:29 am Shanta says:
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    Jared – I am also unable to get this to work. Like Steven, pics open in a separate window, even when all other plugins are deactivated. I’m using Wordpress 2.3. The error log says, “PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_filter() in …/wp-content/plugins/wp-lytebox/wp-lytebox.php on line 32″

  45. October 9th, 2007 at 8:53 am Jared Schwager says:
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    Just released version 1.0.2. This should fix the problem where Lytebox will not load.

    Shanta, I’m still working on finding out what the problem is for the error you’re getting.

  46. October 10th, 2007 at 7:30 pm Shanta says:
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    Some more info that might help you trouble shoot: James suggestion to use the lytebox.js file from the lytebox site cleared up the problem.

  47. October 10th, 2007 at 8:42 pm Jared Schwager says:
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    Shanta, I updated the lytebox.js file in WP-Lytebox, so there should be no need to replace the lytebox.js file if you download the new version of my plugin.

    P.S. You should have received an email explaining this. But I may have forgotten to send it out to you.

  48. October 11th, 2007 at 9:11 am MurphyNET Blog » Blog Archive » Ein kleiner Test… says:
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    [...] .. des Plugins WP-Lytebox. [...]

  49. October 15th, 2007 at 12:29 am Shanta says:
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    I’m afraid that didn’t help, Jared. Lytebox.js in v1.02 of your plugin still won’t launch.

  50. October 15th, 2007 at 12:21 pm Jared Schwager says:
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    Shanta, I just released a major update to my plugin. Try it out and let me know whether it works or not.

  51. October 16th, 2007 at 12:15 am x says:
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    how it work on wp2.0.10 ? pls..

  52. October 16th, 2007 at 12:16 am x says:
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    still won’t lanuch –*

  53. October 16th, 2007 at 3:06 pm Jared Schwager says:
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    x, I just tested my plugin on a WordPress 2.0.4 installation and it worked perfectly. What other plugins are you using?

  54. October 17th, 2007 at 11:55 am Doug Smith says:
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    FYI, Your download link for version 1.1 is serving the version 1.0.2 file.

  55. October 20th, 2007 at 6:51 am x says:
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    o cool sry i’m tested in wrong folder thx , mymistake
    LOL

  56. October 22nd, 2007 at 1:56 pm Diego Rotalde says:
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    I second What Doug said above. Version 1.1 is still serving the 1.0.2 file.

    Today I copied the plugin to the plugin folder and activated it. Unfortunately, I saw no Lytebox Option appear on my WP admin. Thumbnails where still opening as before, just like full size images on new browser windows.

    After reading some comments, I downloaded the original lytebox.js file from the website, replaced it and on-site functionality works now, but I *still* don’t have a Lytebox Options in my WP admin. Since I’d like to configure the “next/previous” links to be always visible (like in your Orion Nebula presentation) and hadn’t read any other comments on this issue, I decided to comment.

    I am using WP version 2.3 with a custom made theme. The only plugins I am using are: Dagon Design “Other posts from cat” plugin, and “WP Contact form III”

    The only blog post I have uploaded thumbnails to is

    This one

    Maybe I am missing the Lytebox options somehow…let me know if you need to know anything else.

  57. October 22nd, 2007 at 4:10 pm Steve Bruner says:
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    I love your plugin! Easy to use and looks great. Can it be used to autoload a page like google.com? Instead of just a page link.

    Thanks
    Steve

  58. October 23rd, 2007 at 5:39 pm Jared Schwager says:
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    Doug and Diego, I just re-uploaded the plugin. Try downloading it now. The Lytebox options page will appear under the plugins page in the WP admin panel.

  59. October 25th, 2007 at 6:56 pm Tanguillo says:
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    Hi jared, what a great piece of work you have done. Your plugin works great.
    One question: I would like to translate the windows text to spanish. Do you have the sources of the “close”, “next”, etc. buttons?
    Thanks in advance :)

  60. October 29th, 2007 at 1:43 pm Shanta says:
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    Sorry, Jared. Same issue as before when I use wp-lytebox v1.1

  61. October 29th, 2007 at 1:55 pm Shanta says:
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    Oops, I spoke too soon! Version 1.1 does work for me. And the options panel is a nice touch. Excellent work!

  62. November 5th, 2007 at 12:10 pm Alex says:
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    Hey Jared,

    your plugin works perfectly, awesome plugin. But when I check the load time and what exactly the page loads everytime I see, that your plugin loads all different images of next, previous, close, play, pause on the page, which could take some ms for every page load. Would be great if you can check your code, that it’s only loading the image template which is selected in your option panel. With 5 images instead of 27 images, it would be much faster and less requests.

    If you would like to check the load on each page, you can go to http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/

    It’s a pretty good tool. When you type in http://afrison.com you can at the end, it’s loading all images.

    thanks

    Alex

  63. November 6th, 2007 at 10:23 am Jared Schwager says:
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    Alex, I had also noticed that during my own testing. I’m planning on releasing an update in the coming week that addresses this problem. (Don’t hold me to that time frame though. I’m doing some other under-the-hood optimizations to the code.)

  64. November 6th, 2007 at 11:31 am Alex says:
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    No rush Jared, would be just great if you can manage it in your future release.

    Thanks a lot

    Alex

  65. November 7th, 2007 at 10:11 am Jared Schwager says:
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    Tanguillo, unfortunately I do not have the source files for the close image and next and previous images. You may want to contact the author of Lytebox via his website.

  66. November 7th, 2007 at 2:12 pm Jared Schwager says:
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    Alex, I just released version 1.2 of my plugin which fixes the issue you we’re having.

  67. November 7th, 2007 at 3:08 pm Tanguillo says:
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    Thanks Alex I ask him for the sources. And thanks for the new release, is working great :)

  68. November 7th, 2007 at 4:45 pm Alex says:
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    Hey Jared,

    great work, you optimized the code quite a bit, my congrats. Just one suggestion, I would rather put the option page under option, like 90% of all other plugins, most people would expect it to be there.

    Another thing, in WP 2.3 it didn’t show that there is a new version available. Just FYI

    Thanks for this quick turnaround, didn’t expect it so early :)

    Great job

    Alex

  69. November 7th, 2007 at 11:33 pm Jared Schwager says:
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    Alex, I’m going to try and give the option of where to place the Lytebox options page in the next release.

    Also, about the plugin update notification. I haven’t added my plugin to the official WordPress.org plugin repository because I feel it’s way too involved at this point with Subversion and all that crap. It’s quite confusing for me actually. Also, since the author of Lytebox released Lytebox under a LGPL license, I don’t think I can release my plugin under GPL, which is needed to get your plugin accepted to the WordPress.org plugin repository.

    I’ll try and get in contact with the author of Lytebox and ask him about all the GPL/LGPL licensing details.

    Glad you like the new version! More updates soon. (I’m hoping to add options for the built-in slideshow function in the next major version of WP-Lytebox)

  70. November 9th, 2007 at 12:51 am Alex says:
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    I understand because of the license issue, just thought you forgot about it.

    Thanks for doing such a great job

    Alex

  71. November 12th, 2007 at 12:14 pm Offroader says:
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    Hello Jared – I have an issue that time sensitive….. :-( I did change from the Greybox plugin to your plugin here cause I like to display a .html file with a google map but cant get it to work (same as with greybox plugin by the way). I even did manual insert the code in the html as it is on your page here. It is on http://www.puro-off-road.com/?page_id=18. Is there any assistance available to point out what I’m doing wrong??? The 2007 Baja Race starts tomorrow and I like to have it in functional conditions by then.
    Also, if I try to configure some at the control panel, no matter what, I get a “You can’t enter that, smartypants!” Any advise on that?? if you or somebody else has a solution or alternative option for my Google map problem feel free to mail me from the contact page at http://www.puro-off-road.com/

    Sorry for flaws in english writing, aint my first language,greetings from the Baja Peninsula.

  72. November 26th, 2007 at 2:24 am Pi.Roman » Objave » Na blogih bi imeli ankete says:
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    [...] Dam na testni strežnik, pa ne dela. OK, bom poiskal kakšno alternativo, sem si mislil. In našel. Wp-lytebox. Še bolj prilagodljiv kot greybox, in dela kot namazano. Prevedem uporabniški vmesnik, vse [...]

  73. December 6th, 2007 at 2:41 am mike says:
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    thank you for doing this!!!!

  74. December 10th, 2007 at 1:49 pm Erste Fotos mit der E-3 at fundstücke says:
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    [...] Gestern Nachmittag war ich auf dem kleinen, von der Lebenshilfe Waltrop veranstalteten Weihnachtsmarkt in der Alten Zeche Waltrop (Manufactum). Unsere Schule hatte da auch einen kleinen Stand und die Solidarität gebot es halt, da auch mal hin zu fahren Na ja, ich steh nicht wirklich auf Weihnachtsmärkte. Ich habe wenigstens meine E-3 mit dem 35-100mm Objektiv mitgenommen und einige ganz nette Fotos gemacht. Zwei lade ich einfach mal hoch, auch wenn sie nicht wirklich besonders sind. In erster Linie will ich nämlich das Plugin ” zu testen. [...]

  75. December 27th, 2007 at 4:35 pm sean says:
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    great plugin! any idea when you might include the slideshow function?

  76. January 3rd, 2008 at 10:10 am Jared Schwager says:
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    Sean, the slideshow function will be configurable in the next version. I’m hoping to release it sometime this month.

  77. January 15th, 2008 at 3:23 am Bored No More says:
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    i came to know of the plugin from wpthemesplugin and gave it a try .. dude ! its awesome !

  78. January 29th, 2008 at 9:24 am Peter says:
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    Would it be possible to incorporate a little eye-candy like this :

    http://cssglobe.com/post/1238/style-your-image-links

  79. January 30th, 2008 at 1:28 pm Alan says:
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    I have a problem when trying to run the following link in firefox, using lytebox (works fine in IE).

    Virtual Tour

  80. February 1st, 2008 at 7:39 pm Jared Schwager says:
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    Peter, I’ll definitely consider adding that eye-candy to a future release of my plugin. I can’t promise it will be in the next update though.

    Alan, my gut tells me it’s probably something to do with Flash. I seem to remember Firefox, Flash, and Lytebox not playing well together.

  81. February 18th, 2008 at 7:43 pm avdisco says:
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    I really like this plugin.

    I had a strange problem, for some reason the Lytebox css is not being found, and I had to manually add it to my main style.css

    Any idea why this would happen?

    (If I try to view the Lytebox css directly in the browser I’m not able to view the file and instead get the search page for my blog)

    Cheers

  82. February 23rd, 2008 at 8:27 pm A Mind @ Play says:
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    [...] WP-Lytebox – Neat little plugin to implement the typical Lytebox system in WordPress, and can easily be fit to work with the WP Photo Album, amongst other things. [...]

  83. February 27th, 2008 at 4:54 pm slightestBox (lightbox/litebox replacement) | For Your Lungs Only says:
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    [...] UPDATE: further development has ceased on this project as since its inception there have been great advances by other developers offering a standalone and wordpress plugin that works fantastically! Check out Lytebox (standalone) or WP-Lytebox (WordPress Plugin for version 1.5+) [...]

  84. March 3rd, 2008 at 2:53 pm Alex says:
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    Hey Jared,

    I installed your plugin 1.3 on another website http://allbatteryfranchise.com and it didn’t work. I tried 1.2 and it worked right out of the box. I checked everything on 1.3 but couldn’t see why it’s not working. Any clue why it might not work? Right now I have 1.2 on http://allbatteryfranchise.com/ but if you want I can change it to 1.3 so you might check what could be the reason.

    Thanks a lot in advance

    Alex

  85. March 14th, 2008 at 8:36 am Jared Schwager says:
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    Alex, did version 1.3 just not work at all, or were there certain things that weren’t working right? Did you try changing some settings after you activated the 1.3 version?

  86. March 19th, 2008 at 5:43 am barokoko says:
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    Maybe you have to rename the plugin folder from wp-lytebox-1.3 to wp-lytebox?

  87. April 2nd, 2008 at 3:33 am Peter says:
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    Does WP-Lytebox work with Wordpress 2.5?

  88. April 3rd, 2008 at 9:04 am Jared Schwager says:
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    Peter, I am unsure whether or not it works in WordPress 2.5. I will be testing it soon.

  89. April 3rd, 2008 at 4:57 pm Lytebox - die andere Lightbox | kopflos says:
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    [...] Parameter können in WordPress durch das WP-Lytebox Plugin auf einfachste Weise definiert werden. Das Einbinden der Bilder ist anschließend genauso [...]

  90. April 5th, 2008 at 1:06 pm Jared Schwager says:
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    Peter, I have tested WP-Lytebox in WordPress 2.5 and it works perfectly.

  91. May 20th, 2008 at 2:53 pm Andrew says:
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    I keep getting this error:
    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wplb_add_pages() (previously declared in /home/echofact/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-lytebox/wp-lytebox.php:37) in /home/echofact/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-lytebox/wp-lytebox.php on line 38

    Any suggesions?

  92. May 26th, 2008 at 10:51 am Lytebox ist einfach flexibler… - Daniel Bleisteiner says:
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    [...] auf die neuen Möglichkeiten verlassen und mir einige Probleme ersparen können. Zumal mir WP-LyteBox das ganze in WordPress integriert! Tags: Ajax, CSS, JavaScript, LightBox, LyteBox Verfolge die [...]

  93. July 18th, 2008 at 4:41 pm Hunter says:
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    Any chance it will work with 2.6?

  94. July 22nd, 2008 at 5:45 pm Ben Armstrong says:
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    Yes, any chance of 2.6? :-\ -I’m crossing my fingers..

    Ben

  95. September 5th, 2008 at 4:09 am Drew says:
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    Great plugin.
    @ Ben Armstrong. I have it working on 2.6.1 fine.

    I feature request:
    Allow it to display different image meta data than the default image title. It would be great to be able to have it show an images description or caption instead along with the photograher etc.

    Thanks.

  96. September 12th, 2008 at 1:38 pm www.marcoharder.de » Tschüss Greybox, hallo Lytebox says:
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    [...] ich habe mal das altbackene Greybox-Plugin gegen das Lytebox-Plugin (basierend auf Lytebox) [...]

  97. October 15th, 2008 at 1:26 pm Wordpress plugin missing from Inactive Plugins section? Try this. says:
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    [...] have the same problem with WP-Lytebox. It appears that it is due to file permission issue. chmod all files inside the plugin folder to [...]

  98. October 24th, 2008 at 5:55 pm Aufräumen nach dem Umzug · Wordpress, MySQL, Akismet, Wartungsmodus, Schlafen, Hause, Damit, Lytebox zum · frankentracks|de says:
    Aufräumen nach dem Umzug · Wordpress, MySQL, Akismet, Wartungsmodus, Schlafen, Hause, Damit, Lytebox zum · frankentracks|de's Gravatar

    [...] im neuen zu Hause schön wohl fühlt, bekommt es vor dem Schlafen gehen noch Akismet, Wartungsmodus, Lytebox zum spielen. Automatic Update sorgt dafür das wir groß und stark werden und WP-DB-Backup soll [...]

  99. November 13th, 2008 at 10:04 am animeBSD · What have I done says:
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    [...] that’s lighter and more useful than Lightbox. After short browsing (googling) I found this Lytebox. Its benefit is [...]

  100. November 25th, 2008 at 3:00 pm Ron says:
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    Doesn’t appear to work properly. I installed the plugin, activated it, set the options, and then put in a post with an image and a link to the proper corresponding image I wanted displayed via Lytebox.

    Instead, it just goes to a long block of grey and at the very bottom of the page is the image displayed out on its own. No window, no resize, no buttons, no anything just this ugly link-to the same page but with the image at the bottom, left-justified with this block of grey above it.

    Any help on correcting this? Thanks.

  101. November 30th, 2008 at 9:32 am Meine WP-Plugins | Dan Kerschen says:
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    [...] WP-Lytebox 1.3 » Jared Schwager (url) Lytebox can be used to display websites, images and other content using AJAX. All images in each post on your blog are grouped together into a galleries automatically. Lytebox is a creation of Markus F. Hay. You can configure Lytebox on the Lytebox Options page. [...]

  102. November 30th, 2008 at 4:35 pm geoff says:
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    I’m having same problem as Ron. I’m running WP 2.6. Interestingly it runs fine locally, but as soon as I publish…”at the very bottom of the page is the image displayed out on its own. No window, no resize, no buttons, no anything just this ugly link-to the same page but with the image at the bottom, left-justified with this block of grey above it.”

    Any hope??

    Thanks.

  103. December 3rd, 2008 at 12:37 am WP-Lytebox Plugin | hieudt's blog says:
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    [...] to Lightbox 2, WP-Lytebox is a WordPress plugin which uses Lytebox to add a lightbox functionality to images as well as HTML [...]

  104. December 7th, 2008 at 12:41 pm Meyolito says:
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    hey, i’m using wp 2.6.5, i’ve installed WP-Lytebox and activated it, but i can not make it run. This is what i found: “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wplb_add_pages() (previously declared in /home/etratea/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-lytebox/wp-lytebox.php:37) in /home/etratea/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-lytebox/wp-lytebox.php on line 38″
    I would appreciate your help!

  105. December 31st, 2008 at 4:02 pm caro says:
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    i have this lytebox plugin togetehr with a flash slideshow on my wordpress page, everythiong works perfect BUT the lytebox is not hiding the slideshow. the lytebox opens BEHIND the slideshow, so you can only see half of the picture because the slideshow is hiding it. is there an option where i can also hide flash objects? i have wordpress 2.7 i cant even access the options page to the plugin :(

  106. January 3rd, 2009 at 2:13 pm caro says:
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    i have installes lytebox. everything works üperfectly, but the image titles are not showing up O.o althouigh i have used the right code.

  107. January 4th, 2009 at 7:11 am Andreas says:
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    Jared,
    fine plugin, thanks, works out of the box with groped images without naming etc.

    But how do I activate the slideshow?

    rgds, andreas

  108. January 6th, 2009 at 8:02 pm Internet Marketing Tools and Tips by Steve atwal says:
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    Any chance we can get this working for WordPress 2.7 ? Would be awesome. Cheers

  109. January 8th, 2009 at 3:22 pm Flash Buddy says:
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    Fantastic! I’ve always preferred lytebox, great to see a WordPress plugin to achieve the effect. Using it here:
    http://quickcolorado.com/?p=232
    The above link has an image that the script is dynamically resizing. The actual image size is 1600×1024.

  110. January 28th, 2009 at 4:36 pm Thank a Plugin Developer Day « firsttube.com says:
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    [...] WP-Lytebox automatically adds a lytebox effect to inline images, which is spectacular. [...]

  111. January 28th, 2009 at 4:36 pm Thank a Plugin Developer Day « firsttube.com says:
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    [...] WP-Lytebox automatically adds a lytebox effect to inline images, which is spectacular. [...]

  112. March 17th, 2009 at 7:20 pm Kim says:
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    Not seeing it working properly either; I even inserted the HTML tags like noted in the Lytebox site, similar as they were in the markup for this post, and nothing. It’s activated and I’ve downloaded the newest version of the plugin. Only thing I can think of is that I’m using a custom template for the page in question (it’s not a blog post), and I have some other jQuery – but the other jQuery should not affect it (it’s not affected when I use Greybox with just normal markup as opposed to Wordpress).

  113. March 19th, 2009 at 7:57 pm Jared Schwager says:
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    To all of you who are experiencing the “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wplb_add_pages()…” issue, I’d like to announce that I am currently working on a fix for this issue and possibly adding some new features to WP-Lytebox.

  114. June 4th, 2009 at 10:21 pm Penton says:
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    Hi,

    I like your work very much. However, i am facing a problem. I can’t close the external file opened by the lytebox. I was using things like:

    window.close();
    or
    window.opener=’x';window.close();

    for the later, I manage to capture the following error with firebug;

    lytebox.js (line 684)

    uncaught exception: [Exception... "Could not convert JavaScript argument arg 0 [nsIDOMWindowInternal.opener]” nsresult: “0×80570009 (NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_CONVERT_JS)” location: “JS frame :: http://www.nuffnang.com.sg/sites/blogger-gathering/register.php?hidBloggerID=3 :: anonymous :: line 117″ data: no]

    [Break on this error] try { object.removeAttribute(“filter”)…dded for IE Alpha Opacity Filter bug. */

    Do you mind to help me out? thanks in advance!

  115. June 20th, 2009 at 12:25 am Emiloly says:
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    Hi, Great plug in. Exactly what I am looking for. Is this going to be compatible with WP 2.8? I haven’t updated yet but am looking to in the near future.

  116. June 21st, 2009 at 3:33 pm 30 Cool WordPress Plugins For Web Publishers | googlestooges.com says:
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    [...] http://grupenet.com/2007/08/03/wp-lytebox/ [...]

  117. July 5th, 2009 at 9:27 am Rob Gillespie says:
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    Lytebox has stopped working. I think it happened since upgrading WP to 2.8 but I can’t be sure.

    When I click on a gallery picture now all I get is the image openng on an otherwise blank page.

    This means all of my commercial blog galleries are now broken.

    I’ve googled for help but found nothing so perhaps it isn’t a widespread issue.

    If anyone can help, please speak.

    Thanks
    Rob

  118. July 6th, 2009 at 3:48 am Rob Gillespie says:
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    Nevermind, switched to Fancybox instead.

  119. July 23rd, 2009 at 3:11 pm In with the New « Bad Robot Brain says:
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    [...] generates to look proportionate and not cropped all weird. I also used the Cleaner Gallery and WP-Lytebox plugins to handle the spiffy Lightbox effect for thumbnail images within the [...]

  120. October 18th, 2009 at 1:11 am Tom says:
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    The close and play/pause buttons will not show. everything else works fine.
    What am I doing wrong?
    Tom

  121. October 22nd, 2009 at 4:23 pm Bruce Judson says:
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    Awesome plug-in. Terrific! Is there an easy way to move the “close” to the top of the box. If you have a large image it’s below the fold–and users don’t know how to close the box. I played with the CSS, but could not make this change.

    Thanks.

  122. November 25th, 2009 at 5:13 pm Noel says:
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    Do you know if this plugin is compatible to wordpress 2.8.6. Can’t seem to get it to work on 2.8.6

    Thanks,

    Noel

  123. December 21st, 2009 at 8:52 am Matej says:
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    I’m running WP-lytebox on WP 2.9. I’ve managed to make it work by changing in wp-lytebox.php the line
    “add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘wplb_replace’);”
    to
    “add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘wplb_replace’,99);”
    although the lyteshow functionality doesn’t work. This – IMHO – should also work on 2.8.6.

    About the “at the very bottom of the page is the image displayed out on its own. No window, no resize, no buttons, no anything just this ugly link-to the same page but with the image at the bottom, left-justified with this block of grey above it.” problem, I’ve also come across it, but I solved it by setting file permissions to the right user (www-data on my local installation). I hope it helps.

    Also, there is a LFI vulnerability in the provided main.php file in the package.

  124. December 21st, 2009 at 8:56 am Matej says:
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    “This – IMHO – should also work on 2.8.”
    Quick tested it – indeed it does (apart from lyteshow, which still doesn’t).

  125. December 23rd, 2009 at 12:02 pm Jared Schwager says:
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    Hi Matej,

    Thanks for your input. I appreciate the testing you’ve done. I’ll take some of your suggestions and incorporate them in the next release.

    I apologize to everyone who’s been posting issues in the comments here. I’ve been really busy with my personal life lately and haven’t had a chance to sit down for a good while and get my coding cap back on.

    I’ll get an updated version of this plugin out shortly. Thanks everyone for your patience!

  126. December 24th, 2009 at 3:16 pm Jared Schwager says:
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    Hi Matej,

    I have noticed that the included main.php is not even supposed to be included with this plugin. I must have accidentally included this file from another one of my webdev projects. I just released v1.3.1 of this plugin. The only change in this release is the removal of the main.php file. A newer version is currently in the works which includes some compatibility fixes for later versions of WordPress.

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