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Simple Lightbox

The highly customizable lightbox for WordPress

2.0 (BETA NOTICE)

Our brave testers have been enjoying SLB 2.0 for a while, now it's your turn to join in on the fun! The current release is a release candidate. Please test and provide feedback on GitHub.

2.0 Release Candidate 2.1

  • Fix: Undefined value when viewport element does not exist

2.0 Release Candidate 2

  • Optimize: Load client output in footer
  • Optimize: Responsive viewport handling less aggressive
  • Update: New POT file for translations

1.6

  • Add: Widget support
  • Add: WordPress 3.3 support
  • Add: Localization support
  • Add: Option to group gallery links separately (supports WordPress & NextGen galleries)
  • Add: Upgrade notice
  • Optimize: WP 3.3 compatibility
  • Optimize: Improved compatibility with URI case-sensitivity
  • Optimize: Activation processing
  • Optimize: Image grouping
  • Optimize: Image metadata loading performance
  • Optimize: File loading
  • Optimize: Improved safeguards against interference by bugs in other plugins
  • Optimize: Link processing performance
  • Optimize: Lightbox styling isolated from site styles
  • Optimize: Improved link processing performance
  • Optimize: Improved image metadata support
  • Optimize: Improved support for HTTP/HTTPS requests
  • Fix: SLB is not defined in JS (Jezz Hands)
  • Fix: Boolean case-sensitivity (78 Truths)
  • Fix: YouTube embed using iFrame overlaps lightbox (Elena in Hiding)
  • Fix: Issue when scanning links without valid URLs (McCloskey Iteration)
  • Fix: Image activation is case-sensitive (Sensitive Tanya)
  • Fix: Visible lightbox overlay edges when image larger than browser window (Chibi Overlay)
  • Fix: Options availability for some users
  • Fix: Inconsistent loading of image metadata
  • Fix: Links not fully processed when group is set manually

1.5.6

  • Add: Display image description in lightbox (with HTML support)
  • Add: Support for W3 Total Cache plugin
  • Add: Initial support for NextGEN galleries
  • Update: Important: System Requirements aligned with WP 3.2.1
  • Optimize: Improved support for small images in default template
  • Optimize: Support for non-English text in user options
  • Optimize: Improved IE compatibility
  • Optimize: Improved data handling
  • Optimize: Skin loading performance
  • Optimize: Skin CSS Cleanup
  • Optimize: Caption support for galleries
  • Optimize: Options code cleanup (Juga Sweep)
  • Fix: User-defined UI text not used (Ivan gets Even (cooler))
  • Fix: Options reset after update (KRazy Donna)

1.5.5.1

  • Fix: Disabled links not being disabled (Disabling Sascha)

1.5.5

  • Add: Distinct link activation (will not affect other lightboxes)
  • Add: Backwards compatibility with legacy lightbox links (optional)
  • Add: Support for WordPress 3.2
  • Add: Support for links added after page load (e.g. via AJAX, etc.)
  • Add: Admin option to enable/disable attachment links
  • Add: Support for image attachment links
  • Update: Options management overhaul
  • Update: Additional WordPress 3.2 support (Gallery)
  • Update: Cache-management for enqueued files
  • Update: Improved UI consistency
  • Update: Improved compatibility for older versions of PHP
  • Update: Internal optimizations
  • Update: Improved URL handling
  • Fix: Improved options migration from old versions (Hutchison Migration)
  • Fix: XHTML Validation (Hajo Validation)

1.5.4

  • Add: Optional Link validation
  • Add: Keyboard Navigation
  • Add: Option to enable/disable image caption
  • Add: rel attribute supported again
  • Add: Use slb_off in link's rel attribute to disable automatic activation for link
  • Fix: HTTPS compatibility (Jürgen Protocol)
  • Fix: Enabling SLB on Pages issue
  • Fix: Zmanu is_single
  • Fix: Image order is sometimes incorrect
  • Optimize: Filter double clicks
  • Optimize: Separate options to enable/disable SLB on Posts and Pages
  • Optimize: Better grouping support

1.5.3

  • Fix: Caption may not display under certain circumstances (Caption Erin)
  • Fix: Images not grouped when "separate by post" option is activated (Logical Ross)
  • Update: Lightbox will not be activated for links that already have rel attribute set

1.5.2

  • Fix: Slideshow loops out of control (Mirage of Wallentin)
  • Fix: Lightbox fails when group by posts disabled (Lange Find)
  • Add: Option to use the image's URI as caption when link title not set (Under UI options)

1.5.1

  • Add: WP Gallery support
  • Fix: Navigation hidden when only one image
  • Fix: Use user-defined UI text

1.5

  • Add: Theme support
  • Optimize: Javascript cleanup and file size reductions
  • Optimize: CSS cleanup

1.4

  • Update: Integrated with jQuery
  • Optimize: Javascript filesize 9x smaller
  • Add: Close lightbox by clicking to left/right outside of image (an oft-requested feature)

1.3.2

  • Add: Option to enable/disable lightbox resizing animation (thanks Maria!)

1.3.1

  • Update: Utilities code (internal)

1.3

  • Add: Customizable UI label text (close, next, and prev button images can be replaced in images directory)
  • Add: Group image links by Post (separate slideshow for each post)
  • Add: Reset settings link on plugin listings page
  • Optimize: Organized settings page

1.2.1

  • Fixed: Image title given higher precedence than Image alt (more compatible w/WP workflow)

1.2

  • Added: Option to group automatically activated links
  • Optimized: Lightbox caption retrieval

1.1

  • Added: Enable/disable lightbox functionality by page type (Home, Pages/Posts, Archive, etc.)
  • Added: Automatically activate lightbox functionality for image links
  • Added: Link to settings menu on plugin listing page
  • Optimized: Options menu field building
  • Optimized: Loading of default values for plugin options
  • Optimized: General code optimizations

1.0

  • Initial release

Requires: 3.5.1 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.5.1
Last Updated: 2013-5-2
Downloads: 267,042

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Support

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