NextGEN Gallery ColorBoxer Plugin

NextGEN Gallery ColorBoxer

NextGEN Gallery ColorBoxer automatically integrates the cool ColorBox lightbox effect with your NextGEN galleries, and only loads ColorBox’s scripts and styles when a gallery shortcode is present, improving your site’s page load speed.

Note: For optimization of NextGEN Gallery’s scripts and styles, please see NextGEN Gallery Optimizer

If you have any questions, suggestions, ideas or feedback, please email me at [email protected]

Key features:

1. One-click install of the ColorBox lightbox to display your images in style.
2. Only loads ColorBox’s scripts and styles when a gallery shortcode is present.
3. Helps improve your site’s page load speed.

NextGEN Gallery Fancyboxer also includes a couple of compatibility fixes right off the bat, including:

1. ColorBox not working in IE6
2. Conflicts with the jQuery $ selector in ColorBox’s invocation code

Requirements:

1. WordPress version 3.1 or later
2. NextGEN Gallery version 1.6.2 or later

1. Upload nextgen-gallery-colorboxer to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Proceed to the plugin settings page to complete installation.

1. 

   NextGEN Gallery ColorBoxer settings page.

Is this plugin compatible with minification/caching tools?

Yes. However the small, already minified ColorBox script must be excluded from combining/minification or it won’t function. This is true of any lightbox script.

For WP Minify, simply add /wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery-colorboxer/colorbox/js/jquery.colorbox-min.js in its js file exclusion options and clear the cache.

For W3 Total Cache, do nothing. It doesn’t auto-discover, so as long as you don’t manually add the script, it won’t be included.

What version of NextGEN Gallery is this plugin compatible with?

Any version since 1.6.2

V1.0 – 25/05/2012

• Initial release on May 25th, 2012.