View image, YouTube video, Vimeo video, inline HTML in lightbox. Add fancybox lightbox effect to your WordPress site.
WP fancybox plugin adds fancybox lightbox effect to your WordPress website. The lightbox looks great on desktop as well as mobile devices.
Image in lightbox
Create a new post/page and use the following shortcode to create a text/image link which will open lightbox once clicked:
[wp_fancybox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" hyperlink="click here to pop up image"]
here, url is the link to the media file that you wish to open in lightbox and hyperlink is the anchor text/image.
[wp_fancybox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" hyperlink="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/thumb.jpg"]
YouTube video in lightbox
[wp_fancybox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video"]
Vimeo video in lightbox
[wp_fancybox_media url="https://vimeo.com/1084537" hyperlink="click here to pop up vimeo video"]
Caption in lightbox
[wp_fancybox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" caption="overlay image" hyperlink="click here to pop up image"]
Alternate Text for an Image
[wp_fancybox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" caption="overlay image" hyperlink="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/thumb.jpg" alt="Thumbnail image description"]
Custom CSS
You can specify your own CSS class in the shortcode to customize a text/image link.
[wp_fancybox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video" class="custom_class"]
Multiple CSS classes can be separated with a space. For example:
[wp_fancybox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video" class="custom_class custom_class2"]
For detailed documentation please visit the WordPress fancybox plugin page
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