Lightbox Images for Divi Enhanced vs Weaver Show Sliders

The main purpose of the ‘Lightbox Images for Divi’ plugin is to extend Divi’s native lightbox functionality to all auto-linked images, not just Divi galleries. Requirements: This plugin requires ONE of the following to be installed and active: * Divi Theme (version 4.10 or higher) * Divi Builder Plugin (version 4.10 or higher) The plugin will automatically check for these requirements during activation and will not activate if they are not met. Main features: Full Divi 5 Support: Works with Divi 5 pages, including backwards compatibility mode. No jQuery required — the plugin works in vanilla JavaScript with an elegant built-in lightbox when Magnific Popup is not available Attachment Page Links: Now handles images linked to WordPress attachment pages (not just direct image URLs), resolving the full-size image automatically Dependency Checking: Automatically verifies Divi theme or Divi Builder plugin is active before allowing activation Extended Compatibility: Works with the Divi or Divi Builder theme, compatible with Divi 4.10+ and Divi 5 Native Integration: Uses Divi’s Magnific Popup when available, falls back to a lightweight built-in lightbox otherwise Easy to Use: Simply install and activate the plugin. No additional configuration is required Optimized Performance: Vanilla JavaScript with no hard dependencies. CSS and JS loaded conditionally Ready for the Future: Works in both Divi 4 (jQuery/Magnific Popup) and Divi 5 (vanilla JS fallback) environments Extensible: Includes a filter (ayudawp_lightbox_selectors) that allows developers to customize CSS selectors to include or exclude specific elements This plugin enhances the user experience on websites built with Divi, ensuring that any image linked to itself (i.e., clicking on it opens the image in its full size) is displayed in a lightbox effect. Unlike Divi’s default functionality, which often restricts this effect to galleries, this plugin extends it to all individual images, providing a consistent and engaging visual experience. The plugin is ideal for photographers, bloggers, and any Divi user who wants to offer a more polished and professional image viewing experience without the need for complex configurations or additional gallery plugins. Support Need private support or custom development? Do you need one-on-one help, priority troubleshooting, or a custom feature, integration, or tweak built specifically for your site? I offer private support and custom development. Just contact me and tell me what you need. Need help or have suggestions? Official website WordPress support forum YouTube channel Documentation and tutorials Love the plugin? Please leave us a 5-star review and help spread the word! About AyudaWP We are specialists in WordPress security, SEO, and performance optimization plugins. We create tools that solve real problems for WordPress site owners while maintaining the highest coding standards and accessibility requirements.

This isn’t the typical plugin to create Sliders: Slide Shows, Carousels, Sliders with Posts. This is a Slider with options! It supports beautiful, responsive image sliders and slide shows. And that’s not all – it also can display any regular post in a slider or slide show. You can even use Weaver Show Sliders as a Slide Show replacement for the standard WordPress [gallery] shortcode. But, best of all, Weaver Show Sliders has been designed to give you options! You have more control of what content is displayed in your sliders and slide shows, as well as how that content is displayed. This plugin uses the FlexSlider jQuery script for the actual slider animation. Slider Options Weaver Show Sliders has been designed to give you more control of what content is displayed in your sliders and slide shows, as well as how that content is displayed, than any other slider plugin. Add sliders using a shortcode Create multiple sliders – display as many as you want anywhere you can add a shortcode Slider Types: Fader, Slider, Carousel Multiple Index Paging Options: none, dots, thumbnails, and sliding thumbnails Slider Content: Images or Posts Easy Selection of Content: use the Weaver Show Posts plugin features to select posts and individual slides Add custom posts with a special post type. Use the WordPress Gallery tool to define images, or add images one post at a time. Many display options: Previous/Next navigation buttons, Pause/Play, Autostart show, Add links to image, Captions, Titles, Descriptions, BG color, Borders A Custom CSS option allows you to add your own styling rules for the sliders. Full documentation is included about slider classes. [gallery] shortcode replacement slider A built-in Lightbox to responsively show your images in a full popup lightbox. Easy to Select Content For images sliders, you can use the standard WordPress gallery generator. Simply add a [gallery] to one of the new Slider Custom Post types. You can use the standard gallery interface to select images from your Media library. That interface allows you to add captions, descriptions, even specify the order the images are shown. Weaver Show Sliders requires the Weaver Show Posts plugin to specify exactly which posts (or individual images) are used for sliders you define. You can use the special Slider Post type. You can pick up a gallery from any page. Weaver Show Sliders will even automatically use the first image found on any post. Using the Weaver Show Posts filter interface, you can easily select exactly where your images and posts included in a slider originate. No other slider makes it as easy to select the source of your images and posts. Other options supported by Weaver Show Sliders include more sizing and layout options; more control over how images are displayed with titles, captions, and descriptions; support for Videos in sliders, more control of Carousels; selection of over 20 different navigation arrows; display options for navigation arrows,timing and order options; per-slider custom CSS; and other options to fine tune your slider. There is no other slider plugin like it. Copyrights Weaver Show Sliders is Copyright (c) 2014-2023 by Bruce E. Wampler. It is licensed under GPL Version 2. FlexSlider is licensed under GPL Version 2. jQuery Easing is licensed under BSD FitVids is licensed under WTFPL mousewheel is licensed under MIT 1.2 New: name from ATW Show Sliders to Weaver Show Sliders New: Added Lightbox display option New: Added Save/Restore Slider settngs Tweak: alt= value on slider images, uses WP Alt value Fix: fixed several minor bugs 1.1 Added Pro freatures to free version Fixed Multi-site menu display Updated FlexSlider and FitVids versions Fixed preview of edited page Fixed alt= tags 1.0.10 Tweaked Custom Per-Slider CSS box (Pro) Tweaked some option wording Fixed problem with minimized script file 1.0.8 Fixed “Enter” on text input areas issue triggering submit Added support for Sliding Thumbnails for Posts Sliders Added max-height for thumbnail pager images 1.0.6 Show recommended plugin only if user can activate plugins Fixed animation time issue 1.0.5 Fixed auto-update issues with Pro version 1.0.4 Fixed arrow spacing when margins specified for slider Added Per-slider custom css (pro) Added selection of left/right arrows (pro) Added show arrows in upper right corner (pro) Added always show arrows (pro) Added disable arrows slide-in effect (pro) 1.0.3 Fixed activation order issues with Show Posts and Show Sliders 1.0.2 Temporary work around for requirement that Weaver Show Posts be activated first. 1.0.1 Added arbitrary link option for images defined in a post (Pro) When Video, will not use FI for image for all slides Fixed opacity for slider pager when above 1.0 First release.