jQuyer lightbox wont open for posts loaded with ajax

Hello,

I have any image with a the category “instagram” opening in a jQuery lightbox. For some reason any post loaded with the plugin now wont open as a lightbox. In fact no jQuery is working on any posts loaded with the plugin. I striped my jQuery right down, tried different selectors and still no luck. I tried following this post — Link — But my click event was already using on('click' function()). Could it be something to do with the fact the elements aren’t in the DOM when the page was loaded? Heres a sample of my code below. Any ideas would be much appreciated!

<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="journalPost journalPost--instagram">
	<div class="popUp__button--open" target="<?php echo $instagramCounter; ?>">
		<h2 class="journalPost__title">
			<?php the_title(); ?>
		</h2>
	</div>
</article>

$('.popUp__button--open').on('click', function(){
	alert("post has been clicked");
});

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