Installing Lightbox Plus (August 2011)

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Lightbox Plus WordPress Plug In Overview (November 2011)

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Displaying an External Site with Lightbox Plus (January 2012)

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First fire of the season

Lightbox Plus is updated to version 2.4.5 which include compatibility with WordPress 3.3 and also updated Colorbox to version 1.3.19. This is an interim release to bring Lightbox Plus up to compatibility with version 3.3 or WordPress. I am currently in the process of preparing a beta release of version 2.5 which has a major interface overhaul as well as the addition of numerous options such as the ability to position the lightbox in a specific location on a page, the ability to set the position of the lightbox to stay in the viewport even when the page is scrolled, per page usage of Lightbox Plus and the ability to auto-launch the lightbox on page load.

See the rest of the post after the jump for details.

2.4.5

• Updated compatibility with WordPress 3.3
• Updated ColorBox to verion 1.3.19
  • Fixed bug related to using the ‘fixed’ property.
  • Optimized the setup procedure to be more efficient.
  • Removed $.colorbox.init() as it will no longer be needed (will self-init when called).
  • Removed use of $.browser.
  • Fixed a regression where Flash content displayed in ColorBox would be reloaded if the browser window was resized.
  • Added safety check to make sure that ColorBox’s markup is only added to the DOM a single time, even if $.colorbox.init() is called multiple times. This will allow site owners to manually initialize ColorBox if they need it before the DOM has finished loading.
  • Changed the slideshow behavior so that it immediately moves to the next slide when the slideshow is started.
  • Minor regex bugfix to allow automatic detection of image URLs that include fragments.

You can get the latest download of Lightbox Plus at WordPress.org and 23systems or download Lightbox Plus 2.4.6 directly.

For support please submit a support request  though the support form.  For questions of comments please post a message in the Lightbox Plus forum on my site.

Glessner Covered Bridge, Somerset County, PA

I have a number of new features in the works for Lightbox Plus for WordPress and I thought I’d go ahead and mention some of them here now. I was hoping to release the version today or tomorrow but it looks like it’s probably going to be later in the week. In any event I have the following items planned.

Lightbox Positioning

An option to set fixed positioning that will keep the lightobox centered in the visitor’s viewport while scrolling the page.  Also the option to specify the horizontal and vertical position of the lightbox on the page.

Lightbox Plus Interface

Option to turn on or off grouping labels, and a fix for the grouping labels not always saving when changed.  Option to turn of scroll bars even if content overflows the lightbox.  And finally and option to open the lightbox immediately when a visitor lands on the page.

Inline Lightboxes

Ability to set additional option for them such as Overlay Opacity, Overlay Close, Transition Type and Resize Speed.

Lightbox Plus for WordPress Admin Interface

I intend to reorganize some of the elements of the WordPress admin interface to provide a more consistent experience for users and make it easier to find settings.

Lightbox Plus Demo. Railroad Crossing

Lightbox Plus 2.4 has been released. I have completely removed support for PHP 4 at this point. PHP 4 reached end of life as of August 8th 2008 and WordPress no longer supports it going forward. Do not upgrade if you are using PHP 4. I also added a small patch to the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser to check for the existence of the mbstring library which was causing issues for some folks. Milan Petrovic pointed out a minor bug that was causing syntax highlighter using Alex Gorbatchev JavaScript SyntaxHighlighter to not work. This was traced back to the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser stripping out return. Currently this is set to leave returns in but will be added as an option soon.

See the rest of the post for details.

• Removed all support for PHP 4.
• If you still need a version that works with PHP 4 DO NOT UPGRADE
• If you get this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /path/to/plugin/classes/filters.class.php on line 81 you have PHP 4.
• Contact your host provider to see if they can upgrade to PHP 5.
• Fixed issue where PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser was stripping returns causing issue with HTML output in several plugins (including SyntaxHighlighter Evolved)
• This issue should be fairly rare.
• Patched PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser (shd.class.php) to verify mb_detect_encoding() function exist before calling
• This issue was reported by several users that did not have mbstring functions compiled into PHP.
• Assumes UTF-8 if function doesn’t exist
• The correct solution is to add the mbstring library to PHP (contact you host/support to resolve)

You can get the latest download of Lightbox Plus at WordPress.org and 23systems or download Lightbox Plus 2.4.6 directly.

For support please submit a support request  though the support form.  For questions of comments please post a message in the Lightbox Plus forum on my site.

Lightbox Plus Demo. Corner Fire Hydrant

Lightbox Plus 2.3.1 has been released. This release includes an update of the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser from version 1.1 to version 1.5 which should correct some bugs and enhance functionality and speed. I also modified the way the jquery-colorbox.min.js script is en-queued to reduce the chance of conflict with other plugins and updated some styles that were out of date.

This was a quick release prior to the upcoming 2.4 release which will remove PHP 4 support completely.

• Changed wp_enqueue_script of jquery.colorbox-min.js to reduce chance of conflict with other implementations of ColorBox (should update for this reason)
• Updated PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser from version 1.1 to 1.5
• Memory leak fixed!
• Added support for detecting the source html character set. This is used to convert characters when plaintext is requested.
• Other little fixes and features, too numerous to categorize.
• Error of “file_get_contents()” will be thrown as an exception.
• Add flag: LOCK_EX while calling “file_put_contents()”.
• Fix the typo of “token_blank_t”.
• Supports xpath generated from Firebug.
• New method “dump” of “simple_html_dom_node”.
• New attribute “xmltext” of “simple_html_dom_node”.
• remove preg_quote on selector match function: [attribute*=value];
• Element “Comment” will treat as children.
• Fixed the problem with <pre>.
• Fixed bug #2207477 (does not load some pages properly).
• Fixed bug #2315853 (Error with character after < sign).
• Cleaned up some general code and updated some help in the admin panel
• Updated demos as some were no longer pointing to working links
• Fixed typos in this file
• Updated the following styles: Dark, Elegant, Framed, Lightweight, and Shadowed

You can get the latest download of Lightbox Plus at WordPress.org and 23systems or download Lightbox Plus 2.4.6 directly.

For support please submit a support request  though the support form.  For questions of comments please post a message in the Lightbox Plus forum on my site.

Fish Tale (Credit capn madd matt) (Lightbox Plus Demo)

After a long, long wait I have released Lightbox Plus to version 2.3. It should show up in updates pretty soon if not already. Unfortunately it’s a relatively minor update though it does add some additional functionality both on the WordPress side (up to 100 inline lightboxes are available) but also a variety of changes with ColorBox.

This update includes ColorBox version 1.3.17. I also fixed some minor internal bugs and some incorrect text. And finally I verified compatibility with WordPress 3.2.x.

• Tested with WordPress 3.2.x
• Minor bug fixes
• Some minor text fixes
• Added option to allow up to 100 inline lightboxes
• Updated ColorBox to version 1.3.17
• Added properties “top”, “bottom”, “left” and “right” to specify a position relative to the viewport, rather than using the default centering.
• Added property “data” to specify GET or POST data when using Ajax.  ColorBox’s ajax functionality is handled by jQuery’s .load() method, so the data property works the same way as it does with .load().
• Added property “fixed” which can provide fixed positioning for ColorBox, rather than absolute positioning.  This will allow ColorBox to remain in a fixed position within the visitors viewport, despite scrolling.  IE6 support for this was not added, it will continue to use the default absolute positioning.
• Fixed ClearType problem with IE7.
• Minor fixes.
• Updated ColorBox to verion 1.3.16
• Better IE related transparency workarounds.  IE7 and up now uses the same background image sprite as other browsers.
• Added error handling for broken image links. A message will be displayed telling the user that the image could not be loaded.
• Added new property: ‘fastIframe’ and set it to true by default.  Setting to fastIframe:false will delay the loading graphic removal and onComplete event until iframe has completely loaded.
• Ability to redefine $.colorbox.close (or prev, or next) at any time.

Please get the latest download of Lightbox Plus at WordPress.org and 23systems or download Lightbox Plus 2.4.6 directly.

If you need support please go to the Lightbox Plus message board.

Quick Lightbox Plus Demo

Lightbox 2.1 added a new HTML DOM parser. However due to a memory leak in PHP 5.1.x and 5.2.x and an improper use of the garbage collection routine a rather glaring bug was introduced in which all content was replaced by information about the programmatic object.  Version 2.2 addresses this issue and correctly cleans up the memory and outputs the content as a result.  The issue was partly my fault and partly PHP 5.1.x/5.2.x fault.

Version 2.2. also reintroduces PHP 4 functionality for those of you still stuck with PHP 4 which is long since (as of 8/8/8) unsupported by the PHP developers.

See after the jump for the change log details.

2.2

• Fixed ”Object id #”, ”Object”, ”Object #” errors with PHP 5.1.x.
  • Problem was due to circular memory leak in PHP 5.1 and 5.2 and HTML DOM object not being cleaned up.
  • Altered way the content is returned to allow for closure and cleaning of object sooner eliminating memory leak.
• Due to overhwhelming demand I added PHP 4 functionality back in but it is not officially supported.
  • If you were seeing an error that looked something like Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /path/to/plugins/lightbox-plus/classes/shd.class.php on line 86 you have PHP 4.
  • Option is automatically set to use legacy method if you have PHP 4
  • You will have to manually select the option to use the PHP 4 Auto Lightbox Method if you are using PHP 5.X and wish to use legacy method.
• Fix for images with upper case file extension not being auto-lightboxed.
• Probable fix for XML Parsing Error: no element found likely caused by memory leak
  • Unable to reproduce error but research indicates memory leak is a likely cause.

Please get the latest download of Lightbox Plus at WordPress.org and 23systems or download Lightbox Plus 2.4.6 directly.

If you need support please go to the Lightbox Plus message board.

Lightbox Plus Quick Demo

Lightbox Plus is now up to version 2.1 which replaces the regular expression method for adding lightboxes to content with a new HTML parser method.  Thus far it seems to be much more accurate in interpreting HTML and correctly identifying elements to lightbox.  I also added the option to have your styles live outside of the Lightbox plugin directory which will enable custom styles sets that don’t get removed during upgrades.  There are some other changes as well, follow the jump for all the details.

2.1

• Now requires PHP 5+, no PHP 4 support.
  • PHP4 reached it’s end of life on 8/8/2008 nearly 2 years ago.
• Fixed problems with initialization and re-initialization of the plugin not working under various circumsanstances.
  • Add code for activation/deactivation of the plugin
• Added true HTML parser instead of regular expressions
  • Using PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser for parsing HTML
  • Should mitigate issues of not consuming the HTML content and correctly modifying it
• Change method for finding and selecting styles
  • Added option for stylesheet directory to reside outside of plugin directory
  • Lightbox Plus no longer stores stylesheet path in options, it is now pulled from global definitions
  • It should now be easier to use on multiple servers with different paths.
• Added support for multiple galleries on a single page displaying separate slide shows
• Updated ColorBox to version 1.3.9
  • Fixed a bug in IE where iframed youtube videos were not opening correctly.

Please get the latest download of Lightbox Plus at WordPress.org and 23systems or download Lightbox Plus 2.4.6 directly.

If you need support please go to the Lightbox Plus message board.

Lightbox Plus Quick Demo

A major flaw was pointed out to me by Milan Petrovic in that the styles (and really the scripts too) in the admin panel were being queued up all across the admin panel. While the scripts were really causing any problems the styles were an issue for plugins that used jQuery UI. I’ve corrected this issue and made a few other modifications while I was at it including some streamlining of code and reduction of JavaScript sizes.

Get the full details and download link after the jump.

2.0.5

• Rewrote the way the plugin is instantiated.
  • Provide better conrol over how actions and filters are added by Lightbox Plus.
  • Provides fix for jQuery UI styles loading on all admin panels.
  • Prevented jquery.colorbox.min.js from loading on admin panels other than Lightbox Plus.
• Rewrote several functions to provide better compaibility with other plugins.
  • Admin scripts are now enqued correctly.
  • Admin and plugin styles are now enqueued correctly.
• Fixed slideshow always auto-starting if slideshow enabled.
• Changed several variables and related fields
  • Do Not Auto-Lightbox Images using auto_lightbox to no_auto_lightbox to accurately reflect it’s use.
  • Do Not Display Image Title using display_titles to no_display_titles to accurately reflect it’s use.
  • Use Class Method using class_method to use_class_method to accurately reflect it’s use.
  • If you use any of these settings you will need to re-check them and save your settings.
• Reduced size of inline JavaScript and converted all to jQuery.
• Reduced size of some scripts using old toggle method for help.

2.0.2

• Add quick fix/hack for a big interface issue on the admin panel. See roadmap for long term solution.
  • jQuery UI themes were overloading other plugins that were using the jQuery UI
  • Lightbox Plus specific themes and scripts should only load on Lightbox Plus panel
  • The exception is colorbox.min.js will load in any admin panel due to the way it is initilized. Expect version 2.0.5 to address this.

Please grab the latest download of Lightbox Plus at WordPress.org and 23systems or download Lightbox Plus 2.4.6 directly.

If you need support please go to the Lightbox Plus message board.

Lightbox Plus Quick Demo

I just released Lightbox Plus version 2.0.1. Didn’t even get a chance to post about version 2.0 before I did an update. This version includes a number of new features such as the ability to add a secondary lightbox that can include video or flash and inline lightboxes that allow the display of inline content. I also made some improvements to the admin panel on its way to a new interface. See the full list of changes from version 1.6.9.7 to version 2.0.1 after the jump.

2.0.1

• Fixed several interface issues in the admin panel.
  • User feedback was not reporting updates because admin scripts were not loading properly – this hs been fixed.

2.0

• Added secondary lightbox option
  • There is no auto-lightboxing for the secondary lightbox
  • Allows the creation of a secondary lightbox with iFrame capabilities
  • Allows lightboxing of video, flash, and content that resides elsewhere
• Added inline lightbox options
  • There is no auto-lightboxing for the inline lightbox
  • Can have multiple inline lightboxes (up to 20)
  • Can be used to display hidden inline content, forms and more…
• Improved interface in admin panel.
  • Added better feedback for users
• Added backend test/demo areas
  • Allows user to test lightbox settings in the admin panel
  • Provides demos and examples for secondary lightbox using video,external webpages and interactive flash
  • Provides demos and examples for inline lightbox using inline content
• Fixed issue with saving setting and changes not being reflected.
• Updated ColorBox to verion 1.3.8
  • Fixed a bug in Chrome where it would sometimes render photos at 0 by 0 width and height (behavior introduced in recent update to Chrome).
  • Fixed a bug where the onClosed callback would fire twice (only affected 1.3.7).
  • Fixed a bug in IE7 that existed with some iframed websites that use JS to reposition the viewport caused ColorBox to move out of position.
  • Abstracted the identifiers (HTML ids & classes, and JS plugin name, method, and events) so that the plugin can be easily rebranded.
  • Small changes to improve either code readability or compression.

1.7

• Updated ColorBox to verion 1.3.7
  • $.colorbox can now be used for direct calls and accessing public methods. Example: $.colorbox.close();
  • Resize now accepts ‘width’, ‘innerWidth’, ‘height’ and ‘innerHeight’. Example: $.colorbox.resize({width:”100%”})
  • Added option (loop:false) to disable looping in a group.
  • Added options (escKey:false, arrowKey:false) to disable esc-key and arrow-key bindings.
  • Added method for removing ColorBox from a document: $.colorbox.remove();
  • Fixed a bug where iframed URLs would be truncated if they contained an unencoded apostrophe.
  • Now uses the exact href specified on an anchor, rather than the version returned by ‘this.href’. This was causing “#example” to be normalized to “http://domain/#example” which interfered with how some users were setting up links to inline content.