JJ NextGen JQuery Slider vs Simple Lightbox for WordPress

The ‘JJ NextGen JQuery Slider’ allows you to create a ‘Nivo slider’ (http://nivo.dev7studios.com/) as a widget or as a shortcode. This plugin uses the ‘NextGen Gallery’ plugin for its images. Requirements: NextGen Gallery Plugin (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/) NextGen Gallery Integration: This plugin uses the original width and height of the image uploaded so make sure the images are the correct dimensions when uploaded. Alt & Title Text Field: Provide a full url here and the image will link to this. Only works if alt field starts with either of these; /, http, or ftp. Description Field: Will be used as a caption. You can specify the following parameters: NOTE: sc means shortcode: Title: Title for slider. Leave blank for no title. (sc: title=”My Slider”) Gallery: Leave blank to use all galleries or choose a gallery to use. (sc: gallery=”galleryid”) Order: Order to display results in. You can choose; Random, Latest First, Oldest First, or NextGen Sortorder. Random will still work when a page is cached. (sc: order=”random”|”asc”|”desc”|”sortorder”) Tags: comma separated list of tags to filter results by. (sc: tags=”tag1, tag2″) Shuffle: If order is random and this is true will shuffle images with javascript. Useful if your are caching your pages. (sc: shuffle=”true”|”false”) Max pictures: The maximum amount of pictures to use. (sc: max_pictures=”6″) HTML id: HTML id to use. Defaults to ‘slider’. Needs to be different for multiple sliders on same page. (sc: html_id=”slider”) Width: Width to use on slider. (sc: width=”200″) Height: Height to use on slider. (sc: height=”150″) Center: Centers content in container. Requires width to be set. (sc: center=”1″) Nivo slider settings: Please check the Nivo slider home page for more details (http://nivo.dev7studios.com/#usage). effect: Specify sets like: ‘fold,fade,sliceDown’. (sc: effect=”setting”) slices: (sc: slices=”setting”) boxCols: (sc: boxcols=”setting”) boxRows: (sc: boxrows=”setting”) animSpeed: Slide transition speed. (sc: animspeed=”setting”) pauseTime: (sc: pausetime=”setting”) startSlide: Set starting Slide (0 index). (sc: startslide=”setting”) directionNav: Next & Prev. (sc: directionnav=”setting”) directionNavHide: Only show on hover. (sc: directionnavhide=”setting”) controlNav: 1,2,3… (sc: controlnav=”setting”) controlNavThumbs: Use thumbnails for Control Nav. You can choose ‘nextgen thumbs” that will automatically use the image’s thumbnail from nextgen gallery or ‘nextgen original’ that will use the current image. (sc: controlnavthumbs=”true”|”false”|”nextgen_thumbs”|”nextgen_original”) thumbsWidth: Resize thumbnail to this width. Recommended to set if using thumbnails. (sc: thumbswidth=”20″) thumbsHeight: Resize thumbnail to this height. Recommended to set if using thumbnails. (sc: thumbsheight=”20″) thumbsContainerHeight: Height for thumbnails container. Calculation should be ‘number of thumbnail image rows’ x ‘thumbsheight’. (sc: thumbscontainerheight=”20″) thumbsGap: Gap between thumbnails. (sc: thumbsgap=”5″) controlNavThumbsFromRel: Use image rel for thumbs. (sc: controlnavthumbsfromrel=”setting”) controlNavThumbsSearch: Replace this with… (sc: controlnavthumbssearch=”setting”) controlNavThumbsReplace: …this in thumb Image src. (sc: controlnavthumbsreplace=”setting”) keyboardNav: Use left & right arrows. (sc: keyboardnav=”setting”) pauseOnHover: Stop animation while hovering. (sc: pauseonhover=”setting”) manualAdvanc: Force manual transitions. (sc: manualadvance=”setting”) captionOpacity: Universal caption opacity. (sc: captionopacity=”setting”) Disable captions: (sc: disablecaptions=”1″) beforeChange: (sc: beforechange=”setting”) afterChange: (sc: afterchange=”setting”) slideshowEnd: Triggers after all slides have been shown. (sc: slideshowend=”setting”) lastSlide: Triggers when last slide is shown. (sc: lastslide=”setting”) afterLoad: Triggers when slider has loaded. (sc: afterload=”setting”) Nivo Effects: sliceDown sliceDownLeft sliceUp sliceUpLeft sliceUpDown sliceUpDownLeft fold fade random slideInRight slideInLeft boxRandom boxRain boxRainReverse boxRainGrow boxRainGrowReverse Shortcodes: [jj-ngg-jquery-slider html_id=”about-slider”] [jj-ngg-jquery-slider title=”Hello” gallery=”1″ html_id=”about-slider” width=”200″ height=”150″ center=”1″] [jj-ngg-jquery-slider html_id=”about-slider” directionnav=”false” controlnav=”false”] Try out my other plugins: JJ NextGen JQuery Carousel (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-nextgen-jquery-carousel/) JJ NextGen JQuery Cycle (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-nextgen-jquery-cycle/) JJ NextGen Unload (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-nextgen-unload/) JJ NextGen Image List (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-nextgen-image-list/) JJ SwfObject (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-swfobject/) Contributors

** !!! Upgrade only if your server uses PHP 8.0++. Do NOT upgrade if it still uses PHP 7.4. !!! ** Provides an easy was to add a Lightbox to Images in Gutenberg image, gallery and Media-with-Text-Blocks. Additionally to Youtube and HTML5 Videos but no other videos. Other video types like VideoPress, Vimeo etc. are currently NOT supported. The Javascript library fslightbox.js is used for that. You even may use the paid version of fslightbox.js. Plugin settings are provided by a JSON-file that may be easily changed and backed-up manually (automatically after V2.0.0). NEW: Added support for the complete HTML-code to the post, page etc. in-between body tags and not only the content. This is an Opt-in. See example settings file in ./settings/plugin-settings-body.json. The support for HTML5-Videos and Youtube-Videos will add a small red button on the top left of the embedded Youtube-Video which opens the lightbox with that video. YT-Videos could be disabled by deleting the line "wp-block-embed-youtube" in the file plugin-settings.json. If you do so please delete the comma at the end of the line before, too! See live example here: https://www.berg-reise-foto.de/software-wordpress-lightroom-plugins/wordpress-plugins-fotos-und-karten/ The support for Youtube-Videos is working with the given functionality and extended to stop running videos onOpen and for the paid version to stop running videos on slideChange. Plugin uses Following libraries and WP-Plugins were used to create this plugin: fslightbox.js HTML5DOMDocument by ivopetkov Lightbox Gallery by Kodefix