About this plugin
WP fancybox plugin adds fancybox lightbox effect to your WordPress website. The lightbox looks great on desktop as well as mobile devices.
WP fancybox Features
- Responsive lightbox popup using fancybox
- Designed with a mobile first approach so it looks great on desktop, mobile and tablet devices
- Quick and easy setup
- Open lightbox popup from either a text link or a thumbnail image link
- YouTube video popup
- Vimeo video popup
- Use a simple shortcode to pop up content in lightbox
How to Use WP fancybox
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:
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.
jpg"]
YouTube video in lightbox
v=Vpg9yizPP_g" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video"]
Vimeo video in lightbox
com/1084537" hyperlink="click here to pop up vimeo video"]
Alternate Text for an Image
jpg" alt="Thumbnail image description"]
Custom CSS
You can specify your own CSS class in the shortcode to customize a text/image link.
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:
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