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lightbox2 plugin to show images in WordPress

November 30th, 2008

Usage

Using lightbox2, just add string rel=”lightbox” in <a href=…>…</a> tag, such as,

<a href=”http://www.laotudou.com/…../49aa1eb70105kfto.jpg”  rel=”lightbox”><img src=”http://www.laotudou.com/……/49aa1eb70105kfto_thumb.jpg” /></a>

or, add rel=”lightbox[nnn]“

nnn can be any number, but it should be same in a group of images.

Optional: Use the title attribute if you want to show a caption.

Sample

http://www.laotudou.com/peiyang-university-the-first-univerity-of-chinese.html

Download and Installation

Download

lightbox2 from: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lightbox-2/

Installation

To do a new installation of the plugin, please follow these steps

1. Download the zipped plugin file to your local machine.
2. Unzip the file.
3. Upload the lightbox-2 folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
5. Optionally, go to the Options page and select a new Lightbox colour scheme.

To use, read http://www.stimuli.ca/lightbox/

If you have already installed the plugin

1. De-activate the plugin.
2. Download the latest files.
3. Follow the new installation steps.

Rupert Morris rustyvespa@gmail.com http://www.stimuli.ca/lightbox/

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  1. October 29th, 2009 at 09:33 | #1

    I installed the latest verison of wordpress on godaddy and i installed this plug in but on my about page it says light box..

    In the custom fields it says
    lightboxoff (not sure why it says that.. and the value says false) It won’t appear on my page. Course I haven’t added any images, but I’m not sure how to do that either I just activated the plugin. Please help.. I’m stuck! Thanks!

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