Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block vs PhotoPress – Gallery

This WordPress Plugin adds a simple & lightweight Lightbox to the standard WordPress Gallery & Image Block. It detects if a post contains a Gallery or Image Block and then loads & initialize baguetteBox.js, a pure JavaScript Lightbox script without any dependencies and a modern minimal look. There is no lock in effect. It does not add a new Block Editor/Gutenberg Block and relies solo on the standard WordPress Gallery and Image Block. You can deactivate this plugin at any time and your Gallery and Image Blocks will work as they’ve done before. Just without the lightbox. Just one important thing to remember: You always have to select Link → Link to image file or Link images to media file (see screenshots below) for all of your Image & Gallery Blocks to work properly. If you choose None or Link to attachment page it will not work. But that’s fine if you don’t want the Lightbox for a specific Image or Gallery. Take a look at the YouTube video from Jakson where he reviews this plugin: Features Here are the features of baguetteBox.js: Written in pure JavaScript No dependencies (e.g. jQuery) Image captions support Responsive Supports swipe gestures Around 13 KB, 7 KB gzipped Works with Gallery Block (Default Block) Image Block (Default Block) Media and Text Block (Default Block) Gallery (Default Classic Editor Gallery) CoBlocks Gallery Collage / Masonry / Offset / Stacked Meow Gallery (+ Gallery Block) Don’t forget to select Link to → Media File for all of your Galleries & Images to work properly. Notice: At the moment, just Blocks inside a post are supported. Not Blocks in a Widget. You can make it work but have to enqueue the necessary style & script yourself. See FAQ –> How to enqueue the necessary assets (script & style) for blocks outside of posts or for block types that are not supported by default?

This plugin adds a variety of additional features to the core gallery shortcode that expand the options for specifying which images should be included in the gallery including the ability to create dynamic galleries of images that match a specific taxonomy “term”. This is particularly useful when used in conjunction with the PhotoPress – Image Taxonomies plugin which allows you to easily associate a wide variety of custom meta data with images. Also, the plugin can be used to create gallery containing with the featured images of any Pages/Posts (even custom post types) that you specify. This is particularly useful when creating a “Gallery of Galleries” or any grouping of Posts that you want to be styled like your other galleries. Features Include: Adds “taxonomy” and “term” gallery shortcode parameters. Adds “caption_source” parameter so that you can choose the source of text for your caption. Possible values are: “excerpt” (default), “title” (which pulls from the title), “none” (if you want no caption text). Adds “post_type” parameter for use in creating galleries of post types other than “image attachments”. This parameter accepts any valid post type (e.g. “post”, “page”, etc.) including custom post types. If you use a post type other than ‘attachment’ then the featured image of the post will be used as the image icon in the gallery. This parameter can be combined with the “taxonomy” and “term” parameters as well. Adds six backwards compatible filters to the core gallery shortcode allowing plugin developers to control almost every aspect of the gallery HTML and CSS on a per gallery basis. Premium Support The PhotoPress team does not provide support for this plugin on the WordPress.org forums. One on one email support is available to users that purchase one of our Premium Support Plans. The Guide To WordPress For Photographers For more information on ways to use PhotoPress and other plugins to build a photpgraphy website check out the WordPress For Photographers e-Book. Example Usage Display a gallery of images from an image taxonomy called “photo_keywords” that match a taxonomy term called “flower”: [gallery taxonomy="photo_keywords" term="flowers"] Display a gallery of of images with no captions: [gallery caption_source="none"] Display a gallery of the featured images from a specific set of pages: [gallery post_type="page" ids="123,456,789"] Display a gallery of the featured images from the child posts of a specific page: [gallery post_type="page" id="123"] Display a gallery of the featured images from a specific set of posts that use a custom post type: [gallery post_type="my_custom_post_type" ids="123,456,789"] Developer Documentation Please read the inline code documentation for more details. List of Gallery related filters this plugin implements: post_gallery_attachments – can be used ot filter the list of Post objects that the gallery shortcode will pull its images from. post_gallery_styles – can be used ot append/prepend/replace the inline style generated by the gallery shortcode post_gallery_pre_output – can be used to prepend HTML to the gallery markup. Handy for wrapping the gallery in a container. post_gallery_caption – can be used to filter the caption text used by the gallery post_gallery_post_output – can be used to append HTML to the gallery markup. Handy for adding a closing tag or addtional dom elements