Disable lightbox videos by Default

  • Resolved Medievaldragon

    (@medievaldragon)


    4 years, 2 months ago

    You closed a similar topic, but you didn’t answer in the forum. This shouldn’t be a PRO support only topic.

    By default, you should make the Lightbox Video feature OFF.

    I installed the plugin keeping in mind it is a screenshot Lightbox.

    To my surprise, after months of using the plugin, I clicked a link of a video and it popup onscreen as a embedded video instead of the intended opening a new tab straight into YouTube.

    My site has several pages of tables with links to my YouTube channel.

    I don’t think you thought this through.

    I have noticed a sudden drop of YouTube revenue, and now I have found the culprit. Your Lightbox plugin.

    YouTubers do not get revenue when videos are embedded. Only when visitors click the link and open the YouTube page directly — which is what my website is about. So can you please disable video embed by default so that you stop hurting your Free and Pro users?

    Minimum: Do not make links popup at all. Only images.

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  • Thread Starter Medievaldragon

    (@medievaldragon)

    I solved my problem. Uninstalled your Lightbox plugin and picked a third-party Lightbox plugin that isn’t intrusive with links as yours is.

    You already have a YouTube embed plugin, so it was redundant and harmful to Youtubers to add the embed function to the gallery lightbox. Your plugin cost me over $100 in YouTube revenue.

    Plugin Author wpdevart

    (@wpdevart)

    Hi dear user.

    Sorry for the late response.

    We added this functionality after one of our users suggest it. We will check it and update our plugin.

    Thanks.

    Plugin Author wpdevart

    (@wpdevart)

    Hi dear user.

    We added such functionality – “Disable\Enable link(URL) lightbox”, now you can use it.

    Thanks.

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