Lightview for WordPress

Introduction

Lightview is similar to Lightbox yet superior to Lightbox. Since version 2.0, Lightview has been able to overlay not only images but also videos, iframed webpages, and almost anything! It works with all popular browsers. The original Lightview JS is a project by Nick Stakenburg.

Demonstration

Individual ImageGrouped Image #1Grouped Image #2Grouped Image #3Grouped Image #4

The first photo is an individual one, while the rest four are grouped together.

Embedded Flash VideoEmbedded QuickTime VideoiFramed Webpage

The above three images are linking to: 1). A Flash color scheme generator 2). A QuickTime movie trailer 3). A webpage.

Installation

Upload the "lightview" folder to /wp-content/plugins/, then activate it.

How to Use

  • For a single image:
    <a href="foobar.jpg" class="lightview">foobar</a>
  • For a set of images:
    <a href="foo.jpg" class="lightview" rel="gallery[foobar]">foo</a>
    <a href="bar.jpg" class="lightview" rel="gallery[foobar]">bar</a>
  • For a QuickTime movie:
    <a href="quicktime.mov" class="lightview" title="">QuickTime</a>
  • For a Flash video with title and size limits:
    <a href="flash.swf" class="lightview" title="Title::::width:320,height:240">video</a>
  • For a webpage (iframe) with title and description, in fullscreen:
    <a href="http://www.google.com" class="lightview" title="Title::Description::fullscreen:true">Google</a>

Download

Lightview for WordPress (v2.2.8) 2008-05-04
Download link removed. Lightview is no longer free.

For the full documentation (more options, custom events, keyboard shortcuts, etc.) as well as the changelogs, please visit the official Lightview project page.

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  1. 北极冰仔 left a comment

    January 18th, 2008 1:24 am

    支持一下。

  2. manboo left a comment

    January 18th, 2008 1:34 am

    下载试用。。

  3. Zhu8 left a comment

    January 18th, 2008 5:50 am

    终于可以取代原来的lightbox了。支持!

  4. SkyLanD left a comment

    January 18th, 2008 10:50 am

    可以用外链的图片吗?

  5. SkyLanD left a comment

    January 18th, 2008 11:28 am

    怎么我的在 IE6 下不行?Fx 正常…… 而你这 IE6 是正常的……

  6. 胡戈戈 left a comment

    January 19th, 2008 12:16 pm

    I have seen one in Denis's blog.

  7. z.Yleo77 left a comment

    January 19th, 2008 12:40 pm

    good。 分享图片用起来不错。不用占用太大的文章页面

  8. Alan left a comment

    January 20th, 2008 5:02 am

    我的图片很大,用了lightview之后,在框里面显示的小了,可以使它放大看么?

  9. Zing left a comment

    January 21st, 2008 3:04 pm

    classic is still classic,
    i dont think lightview is the one can substitude lightbox, which we are not tired of.

  10. awflasher left a comment

    January 22nd, 2008 2:20 am

    It's very cool!
    light and fast.

  11. PJP left a comment

    January 26th, 2008 12:46 pm

    gblitebox也很出色,更小的块头更炫的效果,它是一个litebox的改进版,而litebox是lightbox的精简版。

  12. Dakkon left a comment

    February 2nd, 2008 8:02 am

    想问下, 我装上后, 加入了 rel="lightview", 为何点上去没有效果?
    http://iDakkon.com/2008/01/31/macbook-ipod-touch/

  13. Alfred left a comment

    February 3rd, 2008 9:39 am

    I didn't see the result as expected... I have checked nothing wrong with my setup and the relation in the link.

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  15. 21sta left a comment

    February 4th, 2008 4:47 pm

    很强大很喜欢

  16. Jim Mirkalami left a comment

    February 6th, 2008 10:42 pm

    I have been a frequent visitor of this blog for some time now, so I thought it would be a good idea to leave you with my thanks.

    Regards,
    Jim Mirkalami

  17. Mr.Michaels left a comment

    February 15th, 2008 10:15 pm

    Very cool siteLightview for WordPress at iLEMONed was an eye catcher. I will not hassle you by posting comments here often but I am quite sure I will come back and read this as often as possible. Perhaps you might be interested in some of the software that I write, being a website owner and all. This post was automatically submitted to wordpress by dpfriend. I just wanted to make a quick ten dollar offer for the program I am using. Go to your favorite search engine and type dpfriend and you can find me there. I accept paypal. Also if you need anything else automated please let me know.

  18. Chris left a comment

    February 16th, 2008 4:45 am

    Great plugin, but I am getting a 404 for effects.js which isn't there in the zip file. In fact your page is requesting it to and you don't have it either.

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  20. Manu left a comment

    February 19th, 2008 3:23 pm

    Hi !
    I used the script and it worked perfectly fine with Firefox, Safari and IE7 but I got a black screen only with IE6.

    I did change the version of lightview.js with the most recent update from the developper website but it doesn't change anything.

    Do you know what I can do to solve this ?

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  22. Bpds left a comment

    March 11th, 2008 10:57 am

    Thanks for that wordpress wrapper.

    b

  23. iphone left a comment

    March 12th, 2008 9:45 pm

    great post, thx u very much!

  24. Fenix left a comment

    March 17th, 2008 6:42 pm

    Hey there's an error in one of your posts. As there's no contact form, I'm posting here.

    XML Parsing Error: duplicate attribute
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    Line Number 4174, Column 152:Usman llyas & Giorgio: Go check you GMail inboxes.
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  26. Roy left a comment

    March 28th, 2008 2:49 pm

    Thanks for the plugin.

    The Lightview website shows that it's only free for non-commercial use. I didn't read that here, you should point that out.

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  28. 齐天大猴 left a comment

    April 6th, 2008 4:27 pm

    Lightview, a nice tool

  29. Joris left a comment

    April 12th, 2008 2:05 pm

    Is it also possible to play windows media files in the box. How can I do this?

  30. Любовь left a comment

    April 14th, 2008 3:37 pm

    Thanks for the plugin.

  31. 二手科学家 left a comment

    April 15th, 2008 8:51 pm

    学习乐园,呵呵

  32. Seree left a comment

    April 23rd, 2008 2:28 am

    Thanks you for the plugin.

    However, how can I show it up at the page's loading event?

    I try to use Lightbox.show() but it errors.

    Some suggestion?

  33. Altamira left a comment

    May 2nd, 2008 7:55 am

    En este blog se habla en chino, y e en español?

  34. mike left a comment

    May 2nd, 2008 10:51 am

    Great plugin but on checking out the documentation on the original authors site http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/lightview/
    I see that you must purchase a license even for a personal blog. I think you should make this clear.

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  36. LEMONed left a comment

    May 9th, 2008 8:10 pm

    @mike: Thanks for reminding me, download link temporarily removed. I'll talk about that with Nick Stakenburg.

  37. tension left a comment

    May 11th, 2008 5:41 am

    我把这个效果加到SABLOG里了,很不错!
    谢谢

  38. Dib left a comment

    May 11th, 2008 6:46 am

    I may have to buy this for one of my sites.
    Thank you.

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  40. kozmetik left a comment

    May 11th, 2008 10:15 pm

    thank

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  42. Sasha left a comment

    May 12th, 2008 12:25 pm

    I live in Russia. Very interestingly and very beautifully, thanks for clause, for a long time searched, whether prompt please there are desert islands in the mediterranean sea?

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