Active installations40Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 2 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org
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WP PlugIndex currently records Show Post In lightbox version 2.0.0 as active, updated 1mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
Show Post In lightbox lists posts from a category on any page, post or sidebar. Visitors click a title and the post opens in a lightbox, without leaving the page.
[ostlist] shortcode for posts and pages. Use it as many times as you like.
“Show Posts By Category” widget for sidebars.
Optional post date and featured image thumbnail.
Accessible lightbox: keyboard friendly, closes with Esc, returns focus to the link.
Only published, public, non-password-protected posts are ever shown.
Without JavaScript the links open the normal post page.
catid – category ID, or several IDs separated by commas. Default: all categories.
limit – number of posts, 1 to 100. Default: 10.
orderby – date, title, author, rand, modified, ID or menu_order. Default: date.
order – ASC or DESC. Default: DESC.
catnotin – category IDs to exclude, separated by commas.
postnotin – post IDs to exclude, separated by commas.
showdate – Y to show the post date. Default: N.
showthumbnail – an image size ( thumbnail, medium, large, full ) or a width and height such as 50,50. Leave empty for no image.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
category
lightbox
popup
posts
shortcode
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.0 · PHP 7.4
Update activity16 Sept 20261mo ago
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