Description
For use with the popular WordPress plugin MetaSlider allowing slides to be opened in a lightbox, using one of the following supported lightbox plugins:
- Easy FancyBox (300,000+ active installations)
- Simple Lightbox (200,000+ active installations)
- FooBox Image Lightbox (100,000+ active installations)
- WP Featherlight (70,000+ active installations)
- WP Colorbox Lightbox (10,000+ active installations)
- ARI Fancy Lightbox (10,000+ active installations)
- Gallery Manager (6,000+ active installations)
We also support the following WordPress plugins, although they haven’t had recent updates, or sometimes go long periods without the authors fixing issues:
- Responsive Lightbox by dFactory (200,000+ active installations)
Note: Some users are reporting errors with Responsive Lightbox by dFactory (see here). - WP Lightbox 2 (60,000+ active installations)
- WP jQuery Lightbox (50,000+ active installations)
- jQuery Colorbox (30,000+ active installations)
- Fancy Lightbox (1,000+ active installations)
- imageLightbox (800+ active installations)
- WP Lightbox Ultimate
- Lightbox Plus
If you would like to use a lightbox plugin that isn’t supported you can add support by hooking into the metaslider_lightbox_supported_plugins filter. If you need assistance, please open an issue.
Screenshots
Toggle the lightbox in the advanced settings panel
Installation
Requires:
- MetaSlider 3.0+
and one of the following lightbox plugins:
- Easy FancyBox
- Simple Lightbox
- Responsive Lightbox by dFactory
- FooBox Image Lightbox
- WP Featherlight
- WP ColorBox Lightbox
- Gallery Manager
- ARI Fancy Lightbox – WordPress Popup
- WP Lightbox 2
- WP jQuery Lightbox
- jQuery Colorbox
- Fancy Lightbox
- imageLightbox
- WP Lightbox Ultimate
- Lightbox Plus
If you would like to use a lightbox plugin, you can filter the supported plugin list with the necessary attributes. For example, using Responsive Lightbox Lite
add_filter('metaslider_lightbox_supported_plugins', 'supported_plugins_list');
function supported_plugins_list($supported_plugins_list) {
return array(
'Responsive Lightbox' => array(
'location' => 'responsive-lightbox-lite/responsive-lightbox-lite.php',
'settings_url' => 'options-general.php?page=responsive-lightbox-lite',
'rel' => 'lightbox',
'attributes' => array(
'data-lightbox-type' => 'iframe'
)
)
);
}
Note that you can use `:url` or `:caption` to retrieve these items from the slides, such as `’data-lightbox-url’ => ‘:url’`
The easy way:
- Go to the Plugins Menu in WordPress
- Search for “MetaSlider Lightbox”
- Click “Install”
The not so easy way:
- Upload the
ml-slider-lightboxfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Manage your slideshows using the ‘MetaSlider’ menu option
Reviews
vitralsolutions
March 20, 2018
I think this plugin is just great. Have support for the most used lightbox plugins and do its job perfectly.
richardsan
October 18, 2016
really great work!
arceoh
May 27, 2021
Uninstalling this and Metaslider since they forced Extendify into it. Would not recommend to anyone.
bimofix
September 3, 2016
Thanks a lot for the plugin! Only have a little problem with the image description with the responsive lightbox plugin, otherwise great plugin!
Please, remove link because this plugin is no longer available.
Contributors & Developers
“MetaSlider Lightbox” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“MetaSlider Lightbox” has been translated into 3 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “MetaSlider Lightbox” into your language.
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Changelog
The format is based on Keep a Changelog recommendations
and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
[1.13.2] – 10 Jul, 2024
- ADDED: metaslider_admin_notices hook, #26;
[1.13.1] – 12 Oct, 2021
- FIXED: Lightbox setting is broken if using MetaSlider v3.27.13, #18;
- CHANGED: Remove Extendify library;
[1.13.0] – 13 Jul, 2021
- CHANGED: Update the library.
[1.12.2] – 7 Jul, 2021
- FIXED: Bug fixes.
- ADDED: Adds option to disable the library.
[1.12.1] – 17 May, 2021
- FIXED: Bug fixes.
[1.12.0] – 28 Apr, 2021
- ADDED: Adds access to the Extendify template and pattern library.
[1.11.3] – 22 Aug, 2020
- CHANGED: Updates readme and team account info.
[1.11.2] – 09 Apr, 2020
- CHANGED: De-prioritizes recommendation for Responsive Lightbox by dFactory due to inactivity.
[1.11.1] – 14 Aug, 2019
- FIXED: Fixes issue where the setting wouldn’t save properly.
[1.11.0] – 8 Jul, 2019
- ADDED: Adds support for Gallery Manager Pro.
[1.10.4] – 30 Apr, 2019
- CHANGED: Adds unique class name to admin notices.
[1.10.3] – 04 Jan, 2019
- FIXED: Fixes a bug where WP-Featherlight would not load as a gallery.
[1.10.2] – 14 Jul, 2018
- CHANGED: Updates settings page for WP Lightbox 2 to match their update.
[1.10.1] – 16 Mar, 2018
- FIXED: Updates how lightbox plugins are checked for activation.
- FIXED: Addresses a bug that checks for previous slider settings.
- FIXED: Removes an incompatible lightbox plugin (duplicate name).
[1.10.0] – 16 Mar, 2018
- ADDED: Adds support for additional lightbox plugins.
- CHANGED: Refactors lightbox to clean up attribute function.
- CHANGED: Refactors various parts of the code to extract supported plugin data.
- CHANGED: Extracts the class MetaSliderLightboxPlugin to its own file.
- CHANGED: Changes the logic for check if the plugin is install and active.
- CHANGED: Adds a CSS class to the container that identifies the active lightbox plugin.
- CHANGED: Adds filters to let users manipulate the plugin use.
- CHANGED: Refactors lightbox to clean up attribute function.
[1.9.3] – 14 Nov, 2018
- CHANGED: Fix checks to slide URL.
- FIXED: FooBox Pro compatibility update.
- FIXED: Updates the FooBox Profile name.
- FIXED: Update Gallery Manager plugin settings.
[1.9.2] – 26 Jan, 2018
- CHANGED: Update translation strings.
- CHANGED: Adds warning message when no lightbox is active.
[1.9.0] – 28 Mar, 2017
- FIXED: Simple lightbox use slide caption instead of attachment caption.
[1.8.0] – 16 Mar, 2017
- FIXED: Update slide image URL to comply with new slide post type.
[1.7.0] – 09 May, 2016
- FIXED: Removes defunct Lightbox Plus plugin link (thanks to @Hendrik57).
[1.6.0] – 01 Apr, 2015
- ADDED: Adds support for FooBox Image Lightbox and WP Lightbox 2 Pro versions.
[1.5.0] – 30 Jan, 2015
- ADDED: Adds support for FooBox Image Lightbox and Responsive Lightbox by dFactory.
[1.4.0] – 15 Dec, 2014
- FIXED: Hides dependency warning in admin if WP Video Lightbox is activated (reported by and thanks to: vfontj).
[1.3.0] – 28 Oct, 2014
- ADDED: Adds support for Fancy Gallery lightbox plugin (suggested by and thanks to: Zim1).
[1.2.0] – 17 Sep, 2014
- ADDED: Support for additional lightbox plugins.
[1.1.0] – 22 Aug, 2014
- FIXED: Array assignment compatibility PHP < v5.4 (reported by and thanks to: andrea_montuori).
[1.0.0] – 15 Aug, 2014
- ADDED: Initial version.