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Using the jQuery Lightbox Plugin in WordPress

Thickbox thickbox thickbox. Why on earth did Thickbox make it into the WordPress core and Lightbox didn’t? I’m pretty sure that most of you will agree with me – Lightbox is fancier than Thickbox, that cool effect on popup. And the way you can browse through the images in a gallery just by clicking the left and right parts of the image. Thickbox doesn’t have that! It took...

Extending the jQuery Lightbox Plugin: Custom Link

Lightbox. I love it, though one interesting limitation I came over today is that there’s no extra linking possibilities. Yeah, the back and forth links are cool, but I’d like to take my visitor to some place whenever he clicks the full-sized image, not just close the lightbox. A good example may be an art gallery, where you can view an image set via lightbox, and then suddenly you...