About this plugin
WP Colorbox plugin is a simple lightbox tool for WordPress. It allows users to pop up content in lightbox using the popular jQuery ColorBox library. They can also view the larger version of a particular media file without leaving the page.
Features
- Beautiful lightbox popup style
- Flexiblity of creating your own lightbox link
- Pop up custom/HTML content in lightbox
- Trigger lightbox from either a text/image link
- Add lightbox to a YouTube or Vimeo video link
- Enable lightbox functionality on your site which supports modern browsers
- Use a simple shortcode to pop up a media file in lightbox
- Apply lightbox effect on images inserted into WordPress post/page
- Open external page in lightbox using iframe
- Responsive lightbox popup which works on mobile devices. Also it fits perfectly on smaller screens.
How to Use WP Colorbox
Pop up image in lightbox
Create a new post/page and use the following shortcode to create a text/image link which will trigger lightbox once clicked:
jpg" type="image" 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.
jpg"]
Pop up YouTube video in lightbox
com/embed/nmp3Ra3Yj24" type="youtube" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video"]
Pop up Vimeo video in lightbox
com/embed/1284237" type="vimeo" hyperlink="click here to pop up vimeo video"]
Specify an Alternate Text for an Image
jpg" alt="Thumbnail image description"]
Apply Custom CSS
You can specify your own CSS class in the shortcode to customize a text/image link.
com/embed/nmp3Ra3Yj24" type="youtube" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video" class="custom_class"]
Multiple CSS classes can be separated with a space. For example:
com/embed/nmp3Ra3Yj24" type="youtube" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video" class="custom_class custom_class2"]
For detailed documentation please visit the WordPress Colorbox plugin page