Photo Engine (Media Organizer & Lightroom) vs LightPress Lightbox

LightPress Lightbox is a popular, very lightweight lightbox plugin for WordPress. It is active 40,000 websites. After activation, settings will appear under ‘Lightbox’ on your website’s main admin menu, and images and galleries will open in a nice lightbox. To make images open in the lightbox, you need to set images to “Link To:” media file. For image blocks, this setting is on the toolbar at the top of the block. For galleries, this setting is on the sidebar by other block options. LIGHTBOX DEMOS Free Lightbox Demo Pro Lightbox Demo – Light Theme Pro Lightbox Demo – Dark Theme FREE LIGHTBOX FEATURES – Automatic detection of images and galleries – Customize colors of lightbox and navigation – Classic and modern navigation styles – Option to show info bar – Option to show title or alt text – Option to show download button – Slideshow options – Keyboard navigation – And more! Links: -> Demos -> Docs -> Free Support PRO LIGHTBOX FEATURES LightPress Pro is a premium extension for this lightbox plugin that offers: – Priority support via email directly from devs – Powerful, Modern Pro Lighbox – Beautiful, modern full-browser and full-screen ligthbox – Dozens of customizations options – Thumbnails within the lightbox – Toolbar with controls for thumbnails, zoom, slideshow, and more – Open videos (Youtube, Vimeo, self-hosted) – Opens PDF files – Opens content from external web pages – Create easy modals and popup boxes – Open image maps – Flawless on mobile devices – Hyper fast performance -> VIEW PRO LIGHTBOX DEMOS -> GET PRO SUPPORT Background and Thanks Special thanks to Ulf Benjaminsson, who created the original WP JQuery Lightbox plugin and maintained it for many years. Additional Info Copyright (C) 2010-2023 Ulf Benjaminsson. Copyright (C) 2023-Present LightPress LLC. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

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 🙂