Pic-Time Connect vs Simple Lightbox for WordPress

Pic-Time Connect automatically generates comprehensive image sitemaps for all your Pic-Time photo galleries, helping search engines discover and index your images for better SEO performance. Key Features 🎯 Smart SEO Analysis – Automatically detects and processes Pic-Time galleries 📱 WordPress Integration – Seamlessly integrates with WordPress 5.5+ sitemap system ⚡ Performance Optimized – Focused data processing for faster sitemap generation 🔧 Selective Mode – Choose which galleries to include in sitemaps 🌐 Multiple Formats – Supports both standalone and WordPress-integrated sitemaps 🛡️ SEO Plugin Compatible – Works alongside popular SEO plugins 🔍 Robots.txt Management – Advanced troubleshooting and diagnostics tools How It Works The plugin scans your posts and pages for Pic-Time gallery embed codes, extracts image data from the Pic-Time API, and generates XML sitemaps that search engines can easily crawl and index. This helps improve your images’ visibility in search results. Sitemap Integration WordPress Sitemap Integration: Images appear in your main WordPress sitemap index (/wp-sitemap.xml) Standalone Sitemaps: Alternative endpoints for maximum compatibility Robots.txt Integration: Automatically adds sitemap URLs to your robots.txt file Robots.txt Management Diagnostic Tool: One-click testing and automatic fix attempts Platform-Specific Guides: Instructions for WordPress.com, WP Engine, Kinsta, and more SEO Plugin Integration: Step-by-step guides for Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, and others Force Add Option: Override SEO plugin conflicts when needed Selective Gallery Mode Control which galleries are included in your sitemaps using the data-pt-sitemap="true" attribute on gallery embed codes. Perfect for: Privacy control for personal galleries Improved performance with fewer galleries Strategic SEO management Developer Features Comprehensive debug logging Action hooks and filters for customization SEO plugin compatibility detection Maintenance tools for troubleshooting External Services This plugin connects to external services provided by Pic-Time to function properly: Pic-Time Update Service Service: Pic-Time Plugin Update Server URL: https://pictime1system.blob.core.windows.net/pictures/pt_wordpress_plugins/version.json Purpose: To check for plugin updates and display notifications to administrators Data Sent: Plugin version number and site URL (for compatibility checking) When: Once daily via WordPress cron, or when manually checked by administrators Privacy Policy: https://www.pic-time.com/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://www.pic-time.com/terms-of-service Pic-Time Gallery API Service: Pic-Time Image Data API Purpose: To fetch image metadata from your Pic-Time galleries for sitemap generation Data Sent: Gallery IDs extracted from your embed codes When: When generating sitemaps or when pages containing Pic-Time galleries are processed Privacy Policy: https://www.pic-time.com/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://www.pic-time.com/terms-of-service This plugin only functions with existing Pic-Time gallery accounts and embed codes. No data is sent without your explicit configuration of Pic-Time galleries on your website. Support For support with this plugin, please visit the Pic-Time support forum. For Pic-Time account and gallery-related questions, please contact Pic-Time support. Privacy Policy This plugin does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data. It only processes publicly available image URLs from your Pic-Time galleries to generate search engine sitemaps. Third-Party Services This plugin communicates with Pic-Time’s servers to retrieve image metadata for sitemap generation. Please review Pic-Time’s Privacy Policy for information about their data handling practices. Development This plugin follows WordPress coding standards and best practices: Full internationalization support with proper text domains Secure coding practices with proper input validation and output escaping WordPress filesystem API usage for file operations Proper database query optimization with caching SEO plugin compatibility detection and handling Comprehensive error handling and logging Technical Requirements WordPress 5.0 or higher (5.5+ recommended for full sitemap integration) PHP 7.4 or higher Active Pic-Time galleries on your website Public site visibility for robots.txt integration Credits Developed by Shahaf Wieder with Claude AI assistance. Special thanks to the Pic-Time team for API support and integration guidance.

** !!! 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