Firelight Lightbox vs Photo Engine (Media Organizer & Lightroom)

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.

Media Organizer. You can now organize your photos in folders and collections. From those collections, you will be able to create galleries easily, without the need of a specific plugin. Synchronize with Lightroom. Upload and keep your photos, collections, keywords and metadata synchronized with WordPress. Then, for instance, modifying your photos, their quality, or changing your watermark on all of them at once will be easy! Learn more about it all here: Photo Engine. Media Organizer You can use attributes (collections=’…’, keywords=’…’) in the standard WP Gallery shortcode to link your galleries to your collections and keywords. No need to own a specific plugin or anything, it works naturally with WordPress. The Meow Gallery and the Meow Lightbox are recommended to enhance your galleries with better layouts and options. They can directly get your collections. Synchronize with Lightroom If your plan is to synchronize Lightroom with WordPress, you will also need the WP/LR Sync Plugin for Lightroom. Please have a look at the official website of Photo Engine for more information. Do you have many photos in your WordPress already and they are not linked with your Lightroom? No problem, Photo Engine can do that too. Using EXIF and image perceptual analysis, the plugin will help you linking them through a process call Total Synchronization or you can do it manually. The process is explained here: Total Synchronization. You are using a certain photo everywhere but you now have a better one? From Lightroom, you can swap one photo to another and this will be replicated automatically on your WordPress. You have nothing else to do. The module is called “Switch Photos” in Lightroom. Support for Themes and Plugins If you are using specific gallery plugins or photography themes, Photo Engine can bring all the power of Lightroom to them, magically, seamlessly. You will be free to choose the theme or gallery plugin you like the best and even switch between them. Photo Engine has a built-in extensions system so that you can extend it easily and support specific themes and plugins. A powerful extension called “Post Types” is already included and probably does everything you need. More information about it here: Post Types Extension. API & External Apps There is an external API available through Photo Engine that iPhone, Android developers or anybody else can use to make apps. There is one available for iPhone, you can search for it on the iTunes Store (it is not free, and not made by Meow Apps). Unique & Powerful Plugin I am myself an user of this plugin and even though it is the only one, I want to make it better every day. If you have issues, frustrations, or anything to say, contact me. I will work hard to make it even more awesome. Languages: English, Spanish (by Nahuai Badiola). If you want to translate the plugin in another language, please contact me 🙂