{"id":1776,"date":"2008-02-16T14:10:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T22:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/16\/considering-lightbox-upgrades\/"},"modified":"2008-02-16T14:10:03","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T22:10:03","slug":"considering-lightbox-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/16\/considering-lightbox-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Considering Lightbox Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am very fond of the <a href=\"http:\/\/zeo.unic.net.my\/notes\/wp-lightbox-js-wordpress-plugin\/\">WP Lightbox<\/a> plugin I have on my blog. I&#8217;ve always wanted it to automatically scale images that were too large for the page. that way, I could happily upload full resolution images without worrying that my viewers would only get to see a tiny corner of the full image. I&#8217;ve found some new Lightbox-like plugins that do what I&#8217;m looking for, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laptoptips.ca\/projects\/wp-shutter-reloaded\/\">Shutter Reloaded<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/serennz.sakura.ne.jp\/toybox\/lightbox\/\">Lightbox JS<\/a>. I want to like <a href=\"http:\/\/stimuli.ca\/lightbox\/\">Lightbox 2.5<\/a> but it doesn&#8217;t have the auto-scaling and it takes forever (read: almost 2 seconds) for each image to finally appear on the screen given all it&#8217;s fancy window slides. :-(<\/p>\n<p>What I want in a lightbox plugin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Opens image box smoothly (a quick fade would be nice<\/li>\n<li>Auto-scaling if the image is larger than the screen<\/li>\n<li>Very light footprint on my WordPress code&#8230; IE, don&#8217;t add code to each image tag in the database. Can be uninstalled seamlessly<\/li>\n<li>Multi-image gallery possible but not required<\/li>\n<li>When showing gallery images, the &#8220;next&#8221; and &#8220;previous&#8221; buttons don&#8217;t move when you hit the first or last image (IE, when the icons change from &#8220;[close] [next]&#8221; to &#8220;[previous] [close] [next]&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very fond of the WP Lightbox plugin I have on my blog. I&#8217;ve always wanted it to automatically scale images that were too large for the page. that way, I could happily upload full resolution images without worrying that my viewers would only get to see a tiny corner of the full image. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}