Comments on: jQuery Lightbox on WordPress – Simple install guide

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:03:44 +0000

Thank you explofish, removing the @ like you said made this work for me, while using a newer version of jQuery!

And thanks to Anthony of course!

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:53:50 +0000

sorry one more question, in the header information that you have written to reference the js files do you have to replace ‘template_directory’ with the name of your own, so the name of the folder your theme is in?

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:43:00 +0000

Im making my own wordpress theme and testing it locally using xxamp…im slightly confused where all the files go…the jquery lightbox plugin i downloaded came with 5 folders and an index.html file….obviously the images in the ‘images’ folder go into your themes images folder and the jquery library goes in the ‘js’ folder you told us to create…but does the plugin include all the folders and everything? or just the js files that came in the plugin? and they go where? cos im trying to get it to work in my own theme, i uploaded an image to a post to test and it doesnt work

i downloaded jquery-1.3.2.min btw…can you explain possibly why its not working?

thanks

By: explofish

explofish — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:27:14 +0000

I found this on google for a project and this is just what i am looking for! Because I couldnt get it running for a bout half an hour i want to say this:

If you got jquery 1.3 or higher, remove the @ in the code!

So you have to include
$(document).ready(function()
{
$(‘a[href$=".jpg"]‘).lightBox();
$(‘a[href$=".png"]‘).lightBox();
$(‘a[href$=".gif"]‘).lightBox();
});

cheers

By: Sid

Sid — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:02:06 +0000

Will this tut work for WordPress 2.8 version i want to put lightbox plugin for my site

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:42:02 +0000

Hi, thanks for your comment.

You won’t see them unless you insert each image directly onto the page.

This is because of the way WordPress behaves. It generates a page for each image that you will need to click through to.

I will eventually be writing a plugin for this. Bare with me and I’ll deliver a really nice solution.

Cheers
Anthony

By: -=Fl@sh=-

-=Fl@sh=- — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:42:09 +0000

it’s work, but i can’t see ‘prev’, ‘next’ and ‘close’ buttons… =((

By: -=Fl@sh=-

-=Fl@sh=- — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:25:35 +0000

sorry, but i don’t know where include js code :-[

$(document).ready(function()
{
// jQuery LightBox
$(â€™a[@href$=".jpg"]â€˜).lightBox();
$(â€™a[@href$=".png"]â€˜).lightBox();
$(â€™a[@href$=".gif"]â€˜).lightBox();
});

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:32:37 +0000

Thanks for your comment – sure is:

$(â€™a[@rel*="lightbox"]â€˜).lightBox();

That will only apply to links with the attribute rel=”lightbox”. Hope that helps.

By: aka

aka — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:05:35 +0000

Is there are way to make it so that it only works on images with a specific tag on it. In other words, I do not want it to automatically apply to all jpg images, rather only the ones I specify.

Thanks