WP fancybox

Description

WP fancybox plugin adds fancybox lightbox effect to your WordPress website. The lightbox looks great on desktop as well as mobile devices.

WP fancybox Features

• Responsive lightbox popup using fancybox
• Designed with a mobile first approach so it looks great on desktop, mobile and tablet devices
• Quick and easy setup
• Open lightbox popup from either a text link or a thumbnail image link
• YouTube video popup
• Vimeo video popup
• Use a simple shortcode to pop up content in lightbox

How to Use WP fancybox

Image in lightbox

Create a new post/page and use the following shortcode to create a text/image link which will open lightbox once clicked:

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" hyperlink="click here to pop up image"]

here, url is the link to the media file that you wish to open in lightbox and hyperlink is the anchor text/image.

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" hyperlink="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/thumb.jpg"]

YouTube video in lightbox

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video"]

Vimeo video in lightbox

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://vimeo.com/1084537" hyperlink="click here to pop up vimeo video"]

Caption in lightbox

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" caption="overlay image" hyperlink="click here to pop up image"]

Alternate Text for an Image

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" caption="overlay image" hyperlink="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/thumb.jpg" alt="Thumbnail image description"]

Custom CSS

You can specify your own CSS class in the shortcode to customize a text/image link.

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video" class="custom_class"]

Multiple CSS classes can be separated with a space. For example:

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video" class="custom_class custom_class2"]

For detailed documentation please visit the WordPress fancybox plugin page

Screenshots

Installation

1. Go to the Add New plugins screen in your WordPress Dashboard
2. Click the upload tab
3. Browse for the plugin file (wp-fancybox.zip) on your computer
4. Click “Install Now” and then hit the activate button

FAQ

Can this plugin be used to open an image in lightbox?

Yes.

Can I use this plugin to open a YouTube video in lightbox?

Yes.

Can I use this plugin to open a Vimeo video in lightbox?

Yes.

Reviews

Perfect!

wpblogtuts July 24, 2017

This is by far the best fancyBox lightbox for mobile devices. Thank you so much for this plugin and keep up the good work.

Nice looking at it works!

Curtis July 13, 2017

Hello. Thank you for your plugin development. Love this plugin. It seems to work fine with shortcodes provided on WP plugin page. The display interface is attractive, and captions display in the lower left corner of the overlay. Personal experience: it worked on my Win 10 Chrome desktop browser, and Android tablet, just fine.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.0.3

• Updated to fancybox 4.

1.0.2

• Made some security related improvements in the plugin
• Updated fancybox to 3.5.7

1.0.1

• First commit