Friday, September 25, 2009

Using Lightbox Plus 1.6 to implements ColorBox for WordPress  

Recently, Due to some convenience reason, so I proceed with revising Blog on the picture, but whether to adjust the picture size or location that it always do not really meet users requirement, especially when I saw an article and want to see the detail graphic in article, during this time a large image will be shows immediately in this page, so I have to click the back button to return the previous page when I want to continue my reading in article content, a lot of people don't like this situation, it's very inconvenient for anyone. Fortunately, Wordpress has more plug-ins, one of which is the Lightbox, of course, many people have used Lightbox, but did not know there are many versions of Lightbox, one of these versions Lightbox Plus is the best for me and this plugin has been updated to 1.6 that will be able to work in Wordpress 2.8.4, so please do not worry about compatibility issues using Wordpress 2.8.4, if you want to try, you can follow my simple steps as below:

  • 1. Search the Lightbox Plus plugin and then download it from the Wordpress plugin page:


http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lightbox-plus/

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  • 2. Upload this compress file into your server wp-content/plugins directory. Actually, you can also login your server using ssh and then get it using wget command


# cd /usr/local/apache22/data/your blog root directory/wp-content/plugins
# wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/lightbox-plus.1.6.zip


  • 3. Now, please login to your Wordpress site and then select Plugins -> Installed -> Lightbox Plus to Activate it.


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  • 4. After activation, you don't have to do anything, just write your article using same as below syntax, the Lightbox Plus effect will be shown as well


<a href="Full_image_link.jpg"><img src="Thumbnail_image_link.jpg">

  • 5. You can see the Lightbox Plus effect right here:


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