Lightbox Overview

version 1.3

Allows including images in b2evolution posts that are displayed using Lightbox.

Sample Lightbox2 Image

Requirements

b2evolution >= 1.9

Documentation

Lightbox Plugin Installation

Installation of the Lightbox Plugin is simple.

Copy the lightbox_plugin folder into the "plugins" folder of your b2evolution installation.
Login to the administrative interface for your blog.
Install the Lightbox plugin from the Settings::Plug-ins::Available plugins table using the [Install] link.

Usage

The lightbox plugin is a Renderer Plugin that will convert special text to html.

Usage is simple:

Simply add text of the form
[lightbox IMAGE_URL [IMAGE TITLE]]LINK TEXT[/lightbox]
to your post. A Lightbox link to your image at IMAGE_URL will be created using the LINK TEXT provided. The LINK TEXT can include html such as img tags. The IMAGE_TITLE is the title displayed under the image when Lightbox displays the image.

What's New

Version 1.3
- Fixed some issues with how the lightbox plugin matches urls. It should be more forgiving now. particularly with relative paths.
- Added support for lightbox2
Version 1.2
- Fixed rendering for XML. RSS and Atom should render properly now.
- Fixed some backwards compatibility with version 1.0
Version 1.1
- Fixed css issue on Internet Explorer where the background image wasn't displayed properly.

License

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.

Warranty

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.