Firelight

Hi! Thanks and yes, sorry for the small barrage of updates. It was a sensitive change and we wanted to roll it out in stages to ensure no issues. Fortunately, that is done now and we’ll be back on a normal release schedule going forward.

Let us know if you have any other questions. Again, apologies. Thanks very much for using our plugin!

Thank you! And, yes, we really care about this plugin :).

Thank you!

Hi! Thanks for your note. This is a bug, actually. We recently updated the options screen to rely more on the default WordPress options API. When doing so, we applied some extra validation/sanitization checks. The PDF height field is looking looking for a number, which is why the % is being removed.

We will update/fix this and try to push a release shortly.

Hi!

“this likely means all the content will probably come into the block editor by default” -> To confirm, in this case you would not need Elementor support? That’s fine. We’ve decided to add Elementor support one way or the other.

If they are importing via API, do you know if they plan to set each image block to link to media file by default? Or no link?

As noted, we decided we want to add Elementor support, so we’ve been working on it and just about have a Pro beta that we can send to you with Elementor support if you need it.

• There will be separate toggles to enable the lightbox for Elementor images, basic galleries, and carousel.
• You would still need to disable the Elementor lightbox by going to the Site Settings panel.
• For Carousels, you *do* need to set each one to link to the media file. If you don’t do this, Elementor doesn’t include the original file in the markup – just a thumbnail. The thumbnail would still open, but that’s not what we want.

If you are still interested or need this, please contact us at firelightwp.com/contact and reference this thread so we can send that to you.

Thanks!

Hi! Follow up on this, with notes and questions.

First, for context, we’ve been re-working Easy Fancybox Pro. The updated version will include a new lightbox based on Fancybox 5. You can test the look at feel of the new pro lightbox at https://firelightwp.com/pro (just click an image). Not this is not yet launched or publicly available.

As it happens, we has already tweaked the behavior of the new lightbox so it will open image blocks added via WordPress block editor WITHOUT explicitly setting them to links.

We tested and confirmed we can update this in a way so it will work on single images inserted via Elementor.

We are thinking to keep this functionality as part of the Pro Lightbox.

And we think would be a potentially valuable addition if we add full Elementor support (images, galleries, etc). If we did this, we’d add one or more option to enable the pro lightbox automatically for Elementor Images, Elementor Galleries, and possibly other Elementor widgets.

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Question: Do you like this style of the lightbox above, or are you really looking for one of the older, class fancybox styles that the free plugin has?

If you like it, we can probably work with you to prep a beta version with Elementor support. We’d comp you a year free in exchange for testing / feedback on the new lightbox.

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My next question is to confirm how you add images via Elementor? Sounds like they are all added with Elementor Image widgets? Any with Elementor gallery widgets or anything else? Also, do you expect each image to open individually, or do you expect them to open as a gallery of images?

If you can link me to a page, that might even be best so I can see the markup and behavior myself.

From what I can see, Elementor galleries (which it sounds like you are not using) open in a default Elementor lightbox. Part of enabling Easy Fancybox Pro for Elementor would be disabling the Elementor lightbox (assuming that’s possible – we will still need to confirm). If that doesn’t work for you, let me know that too.

Thanks!

The plugin is not set up this way now, but it is possible to add this. And we’ve been strongly considering doing so.

It’s a bit tricky because we need to determine which images to open with the lightbox, and which not to – ie, we probably want exclude things like the site logo or image icons for social media sharing, etc,

An easy way to do this is just to apply auto-lightbox to all images that are in image blocks or gallery blocks. That would probably work for 80% of use cases.

Can you tell me how most of your images are added (classic vs block editor, single images vs galleries, shortcodes or no, etc)?