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Lightbox Plus 1.6.1 Released – Fixes IE 6/7/8 style issues

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I’ve released Lightbox Plus 1.6.1 which while is doesn’t really add any new features it does fix some display issues for IE with the elegant and shadows themes.  Here are the change log notes:

1.6.1

  • Fixed IE display issues for elegant and shadowed themes.
    • Should now correctly grab path to images for IE 6/7/8
  • Re-added additional simple styles blue, green, grey, purple, red, teal, yellow in addition to balck and white
    • Fixed prev/next buttons in simple styles to only display when cursor hovers over left or right of image.

You can get it from wordpress.org or 23systems download [Download not found] directly.

For support please see the Lightbox Plus message board.

Fix for Flickr Mini Gallery and Lightbox Plus

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I’ve discovered that the great plugin Flickr Mini Gallery conflicts with Lightbox Plus (and probably any other plugins that implement jQuery using the wp_enqueue_script('jquery'); method.

I took a look at the code and have created a hotfix for version 1.0 of Flick Mini Gallery.

Here’s how to fix the issue:
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Lightbox Plus 1.6 Released – Supports WordPress Galleries

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Lightbox Plus NOW works with WordPress’ built in gallery feature

I’m happy to say Lightbox Plus now works with WordPress’ built in gallery. This has been the most requested feature by far. There are few simple requirements however. You you must set Link thumbnails to: Image File or use [gallery link="file" for the gallery options. You must check Use For WP Gallery box under Other Lightbox Plus Settings
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Installing Alterative PHP Cache (APC) with Plesk on Ubuntu

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Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is a PHP accelerator. PHP accelerators are extensions built to increase the performance and decrease the load time of software applications written using the PHP programming language. Most PHP accelerators work by caching the compiled bytecode of PHP scripts to avoid the overhead of parsing and compiling source code on each request. A PHP accelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of PHP code anywhere from 2-10 times.

APC is a free, open source accelerator that optimizes PHP intermediate code and caches data and compiled code from the PHP bytecode compiler in shared memory.
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Lightbox Plus Plugin 1.5.x Issues and Updates

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I noticed and had pointed out several issue with the latest release of Lightbox Plus.  I am planning on releasing another version today that will hopefully recify the issues.

Upgrade Issues

The upgrade was not removing the old unneccesary files from the plugin – the plugin needs re-initialization at least once upon upgrading.  This will now remove old Lightbox Plus files assuming you have the correct permissions on you server to do so.  Otherwise you must manually remove the following files and directories:

.../wp-content/plugins/lightbox-plus/images/*.*
.../wp-content/plugins/lightbox-plus/images/
.../wp-content/plugins/lightbox-plus/js/lightbox.js
.../wp-content/plugins/lightbox-plus/css/*.css

This will give you a clean install.  You will still want to re-initialize or set and save the settings for Lightbox Plus before proceeding.
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Plugin News

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I’ve updated all my plugins to be compatible with WordPress 2.8.  There are still the lingering bugs that affect some people but not others.  Here’s the latest news and updates regarding the plugins.
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Lightbox Plus Issues

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I know there have been a lot of questions about issues with Lightbox Plus. I’m currently trying to track down the cause for most of them.   I’ll try to answer what I can here and hopefully have some resolution for the other issue soon. I’m working on completing a project that is taking up most of my coding time but as I am going to be using Lightbox Plus in this project I will soon be concentrating effort on improving it and hopefully solving the remaining issues.

A bug was pointed out to me recently that may be causing issues with IE – I’m going to correct that and hopefully that will solve some of the problems people have been having.

Issues with the lightbox tags rel=lightbox not showing up is probably due to the Image Title or Image Caption not being set. Images added prior to LB+ installation may or may not have them. Images added in older versions of WordPress (2.3-) probably won’t have them.

I have just released another version that correct a definite IE error with Lightbox Plus so please let me know if this solves your issue.  It may also correct the issue with the Loading and Close image paths as well.

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New Version of FLIR Soon

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I was hoping to have a new version of FLIR out by today but life does that strange thing, you know where it interrupts with programming.

Anyway the new version is just a minor update that fixes a few bugs and adds a few small features and makes it a little more WordPress 2.7 friendly.

I need to finish up a few things then do some browser testing.

The changes should be as follows:

  • Set the tags used by the Automatic method to follow the element types as defined in the configuration
  • Add checkbox to allow the use of external JavaScript libraries – jQuery, Scriptaculous and Prototype support only
  • Hide Elements to Replace section when using Automatic method as it is not used in that case.
  • Add checkbox to disable FLIR for IE6 users to to various problems, may expand to disable for older browsers in general.
  • Fix the global Use FancyFonts not showing it’s activated.
  • Other minor interface fixes.

FLIR for WordPress 0.8.0

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I am in the process of testing version 0.8 of FLIR for WP.  Assuming all goes well it should be released tomorrow sometime.  Here are some of the key changes:

  • Updated Facelift to 1.2 release
  • Rewrote code for better readability and adherence to code conventions (hopefully)
  • Redesigned admin interface to be more logically organized (again, hopefully)
    • Added more helpful information to the configuration text.
  • Added ability to specify all elements to replace rather than just the few I had.
    • For example you can specify something like h1,h2,div#sidebar a to have your h1, h2 headers and all of the sidebar links replaced.
  • Fixed config-flir.php from being replaced or not present.
In the meantime you can visit the Facelift Image Replacement (FLIR) for WordPress page for more information.

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