Firelight Lightbox vs Featured Video Plus

NEWS: Easy Fancybox is now Firelight Lightbox. Read about it here. Firelight Lightbox is the most popular lighbox plugin for WordPress, active on over 200,000 WordPress installations. It adds a lightweight and flexible lightbox for viewing images, video, and other media on your website. After activation, links to images, galleries, videos, pdfs, maps, modals, etc, will open in a lightbox. Settings will be under ‘Lightbox’ on your main admin menu. QUICK LIGHTBOX DEMOS Demos for images, videos, PDFs, maps, and modals/popups: Free Lightbox Demo Pro Lightbox Demo – Light Theme Pro Lightbox Demo – Dark Theme FREE LIGHTBOX FEATURES – Automatic detection of images – Automatic detection of galleries – Customize options for Lightbox appearance, style, and behavior – Opens all common image formats including webp and svg – Opens WordPress core galleries – Opens videos from Youtube, Vimeo, and Dailmotion – Opens PDF files (embed with object tag, iframe, external Google Docs Viewer) – Opens NextGEN galleries (instructions) – Opens content from external web pages (instructions) – Create easy modals and popup boxes (instructions) – Open image maps (instructions) – Open lightbox from WordPress menu items (instructions) – Support for Jetpack Infinite Scroll – Support for WordPress Multsite (see Installation instructions) Links: -> Demos -> Docs -> Free Support PRO LIGHTBOX FEATURES Firelight Lightbox Pro is an extension for this lightbox plugin that offers: – Dozens of Pro features for free lightboxes (Fancybox Legacy, Classic, V2) – Priority support direct from developers – New and Powerful Pro Lighbox based on Fancybox 5, including: – Beautiful, modern full-browser and full-screen ligthbox – 100+ customizations options – Thumbnails within the lightbox – Social sharing for images – Link direct to images in the lightbox – “Download image” button – Toolbar with controls for thumbnails, social sharing, zoom, slideshow, etc – Open videos – Open PDFs – Open popups – Open inline content and iframes – Open Google maps – NextGEN Gallery integration – Elementor integration – Perfect on mobile devices – Optimized lightbox speed -> VIEW PRO LIGHTBOX DEMOS -> GET PRO SUPPORT GDPR / EU Privacy This plugin does not collect any data or set any browser cookies. The PRO version offers an option to disable the automatic popup after the first visit, which needs a browser cookie. This cookie stores the visitors first website visit timestamp and path on the client side. It is not shared nor is any data stored server side or elsewhere. Contribute If you’re happy with this plugin, please consider writing a quick rating, helping others in the forum, or translating. Known conflicts & issues See Firelight Lightbox Troubleshooting.

A picture is worth a thousand words. How many words is a video worth? Featured Videos work like Featured Images, just smoother: Paste a video URL into the designated new box on the post edit screen and the video will be displayed in place of a post image. There are three ways to get the videos onto your page: Automagically! If your theme makes use of WordPress’ native featured image functionality you are set: Automatic insertion, lazy loading or lightbox overlays, its your choice. If this does not work you can either insert the [featured-video-plus]–Shortcode in your posts or manually make use of the PHP-functions in your theme’s source files. For more details, check the installation page. Theme compatibility Sadly many themes do not follow the WordPress standards and implement their own fancy functions for displaying featured images – those very likely break this plugin. Check out the FAQ. Another common problem are sliders: Videos, in general, do not like sliders at all. See the plugin in action on yrnxt.com. There is a button in the sidebar to switch between the different featured video display modes: Automatic, lazy and overlay. Besides Local Videos you can use videos from a whole lot of external providers like YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion. SoundCloud and Spotify (including playlists) are supported as well. Check the WordPress Codex for a complete list. If some provider is not listed you can always just use an embed code or whatever HTML you like. After installing the plugin check your site’s Media Settings (Settings -> Media in the administration interface): The plugin adds quite some little helper options there. Change to lazy or overlay mode, tweak video sizing, individualize the look of the most prominent providers’ video players and turn on autoplay or video looping. By default videos try to dynamically fit their parent containers width and adjust their size responsively. Support I do read all support questions in the forums but cannot reply to all of them. The plugin is an unpaid side project and full support would require more time than I can invest for free for over 20k active installs. If you really need help, consider buying me a cookie – best way to attract my attention and to support future enhancements.