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Lightbox Media (LBM) is yet another clone of Lokesh Dhakar’s Lightbox (v2) image add-on. It’s been slightly modified to allow any content (media) apart from images to be shown inside an iframe. This is detected automatically so there’s no need to modify text outside the source files. The overlay effect is applied exactly like before by adding rel=”lightbox” inside the link tag, or rel=”lightbox[some-media-set]“.

The download includes all files needed to set it up on any website, including the Prototype JavaScript Framework and some add-ons provided by Script.aculo.us. It also includes an example page in order to show how you should add the JavaScripts, style etc. Additionally lightbox-media.js and lightbox-media.css holds a few basic instructions on how to alter iframe height and width and set absolute URI’s for the navigation images.

Download Lightbox Media 1.01

Demo’s can be seen at our Area51 / LBM test site, or on our previous post Introducing Lightbox Media. Feel free to comment and/or ask for/provide help related to this add-on.

Update: Based on user input I’m now pleased to announce version 1.2 of Lightbox Media. The update includes a fix for upper-case file names and also the possibility to set the width and hight for the iframed content by adding a short query string to the link. Demo’s are available at our new Area51 / LBM2 test site.

Download Lightbox Media 1.20

I’ve been thinking of changing theme for awhile but really didn’t want to reinvent the wheel (again). Therefore I’ve spent the last couple of days getting to know K2, the next generation Kubrick theme template developed by Michael Heilemann, Chris J Davis, Zeo, Steve Lam and Ben Sherratt.

It appears that applying your own layout and still keep (get) some really great functionality is relatively straightforward (if you know some HTML, CSS and PHP…) . I’ll return with more info as the “localhost-project” continues.

In the meanwhile you can look forward to my Lightbox Media release tomorrow (if time permits) which I hope will prove useful to those of you missing a few features from the original Lightbox image viewer.

Had a go at the Lightbox code earlier today as I want to be able to display more than just images. After a little tweaking I seam to have found a way to include almost anything simply by adding an optional iframe. The JavaScript filters any request that’s not an image and automagically opens the content in an iframe. Implementation doesn’t require any changes on your pages, everything is done by “updating” the lightbox.js and lightbox.css files.

I’ll bug test the code over the weekend, but here’s a few last-minute example:

Another page | A textfile

Please report any bugs or abnormalities, and feel free to suggest whatever you can think of

Have a great weekend!

For images only

As some of you might have noticed Lightbox is based on the Prototype JavaScript framework, which is also a part of WordPress. However, if your plugins doesn’t require prototype.js (apart from the admin section) you might want to try Slimbox as an alternative to Lightbox for your blog/site.