Title: [Plugin: Lightbox 2] Cannot get it to work
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Lightbox 2] Cannot get it to work

 *  [vadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vadi/)
 * (@vadi)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-lightbox-2-cannot-get-it-to-work/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m having troubles getting the plugin to work. It doesn’t auto-add the html 
   code to images (even though I have auto-append html enabled). I also couldn’t
   find what was I supposed to add exactly to the html if I have that disabled.
 * Lightbox 2 is great, hope to get it working on my wp too 🙁
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lightbox-2/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lightbox-2/)

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 *  [evilenglishman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evilenglishman/)
 * (@evilenglishman)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-lightbox-2-cannot-get-it-to-work/#post-861750)
 * doesnt work for me either
 *  Thread Starter [vadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vadi/)
 * (@vadi)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-lightbox-2-cannot-get-it-to-work/#post-861751)
 * I’m using [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shadowbox-js/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shadowbox-js/)
   now, which works perfectly – and requires zero special setup or tags.
 *  [evilenglishman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evilenglishman/)
 * (@evilenglishman)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-lightbox-2-cannot-get-it-to-work/#post-861754)
 * i tried shadowbox but it does nothing in IE for me
 *  Thread Starter [vadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vadi/)
 * (@vadi)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-lightbox-2-cannot-get-it-to-work/#post-861755)
 * Maybe you set it up wrong, because it works for my website: [http://mudlet.org/screenshots/](http://mudlet.org/screenshots/)
 *  [jperez3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jperez3/)
 * (@jperez3)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-lightbox-2-cannot-get-it-to-work/#post-861763)
 * works like a charm
 * just need to add: rel=”lightbox”
 * inside your <a href code
 * also add: rel=”lightbox[group]”
 * if you want to group a slide show
 *  [shaiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shaiss/)
 * (@shaiss)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-lightbox-2-cannot-get-it-to-work/#post-861770)
 * Had exactly the same problem, auto lightbox doesnt work. jperez23’s suggestion
   works perfectly.
 * On the otherhand I have this plugin installed on a different blog and auto lightbox
   works fine.
 * very strange.
 *  [lcduf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lcduf/)
 * (@lcduf)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-lightbox-2-cannot-get-it-to-work/#post-861771)
 * It’s working but adding an a box at the top of every page with the close button
   and no image on every page that has a lightbox image.
 *  [kherge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kherge/)
 * (@kherge)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-lightbox-2-cannot-get-it-to-work/#post-861772)
 * On a clean install, this plugin isn’t working.
 * [http://kevingh.com/](http://kevingh.com/)
 * I can see that the JavaScript is load in the header, and I also manually added
   the rel=”lightbox” attribute, but still nothing.
 * It was working with my old blog…
 *  [nscricket](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nscricket/)
 * (@nscricket)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-lightbox-2-cannot-get-it-to-work/#post-861774)
 * Can’t get it to work either. What’s weird is that it was working about 2 weeks
   ago and I didn’t install any new plugins. It just stopped working one day. Can
   anybody help, here’ an article that’s suppose to use lightbox but doesn’t pop
   up at all:
 * [http://www.nerdsociety.com/2008/11/13/review-halo-3-legendary-collection-master-chief/](http://www.nerdsociety.com/2008/11/13/review-halo-3-legendary-collection-master-chief/)
 * Thanks.
 *  [Othersidegr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/othersidegr/)
 * (@othersidegr)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-lightbox-2-cannot-get-it-to-work/#post-861776)
 * Same problem, not working for me either.
 *  [Ciro Urdaneta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/curdaneta/)
 * (@curdaneta)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-lightbox-2-cannot-get-it-to-work/#post-861781)
 * add me to the list, suddenly the plugin stops to work…
 *  [GATEKeeper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gatekeeper/)
 * (@gatekeeper)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-lightbox-2-cannot-get-it-to-work/#post-861809)
 * Not sure if you folks saw the same issue, but it’s not working for me in 2.7.1.
   Previously was fine in 2.7.0 though.
 *  [GATEKeeper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gatekeeper/)
 * (@gatekeeper)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-lightbox-2-cannot-get-it-to-work/#post-861815)
 * Just to add a bit more information here, I can see why Lightbox isn’t working.
   It is not adding rel=”lightbox” to the link any more. Any ideas?
 *  [joshposh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshposh/)
 * (@joshposh)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-lightbox-2-cannot-get-it-to-work/#post-861816)
 * Same problem 🙁
 *  [GATEKeeper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gatekeeper/)
 * (@gatekeeper)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-lightbox-2-cannot-get-it-to-work/#post-861817)
 * Actually, unless I’m mistaken the culprit in my case is the Cleaner Gallery plugin.
   On a page where there’s no gallery the rel=”” tag is inserted fine.

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