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Lightbox Plus 1.5.5

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Lightbox Plus Demo and Example
Lightbox Plus Demo and Example

I’ve updated Lightbox Plus to version 1.5.5.  It has numerous fixes including:

  • Optimized and updated additional code to use less memory and run faster
  • Separated the admin panel output to a separate file
  • Added some custom admin panel styles
  • Fixed bug where titles were being broken when DO NOT USE TITLE is checked.
  • Fixed issue with limited character sets – should allow any characters in the title
  • Updated ColorBox to version 1.2.9
  • Some cosmetic changes to admin panel

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

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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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.

This site looks awful in IE 6, but FLIR works

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I haven’t checked this site in IE 6 since I re-themed it and man it looks bad.  Maybe it’s because it’s running a virtual machine – I hope that’s the reason but I wish IE 6 would just go away and die.  But really why not take it a step further and wish that Microsoft would make browser that were standards compliant.  So sorry IE 6 users is this site looks bad you might want to use Firefox, Opera or Safari.

FLIR for WordPress

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Not long ago I ran across some a set of scripts (JavaScript/PHP) called Facelift which is an alternative to sIFR and I thought this needs WordPress plugin to make it easy for people to use with WordPress.

So I downloaded it and created a plugin from it.  Since then – Sunday – it’s proven extremely popular.

A lot of people seem to be having some issues with it and I think the bulk of them come down to two things:

First you need to have the GD Graphics Library built into your PHP installation.  This is probably the main contributor to the problem.  The second issue is probably not having your cache folder for the plugin be writable.  I’ll be glad to help anyone – within reason – get these issues resolved.

I am pretty much constantly trying to work on this plugin to get it up to version 1.0.0 – it currently sits at 0.5.5 and as such is functional but incomplete.

You can get it from Facelift Image Replacement and you can get support at Mawhorter.net Forums or via commenting on the plugin page.

Lightbox Plus

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Lightbox Plus Demo and Example
Lightbox Plus Demo and Example

I just finished version 1.0 of Lightbox Plus.  Lightbox Plus is a WordPress plugin that implements Lightbox JS by Lokesh Dhakar.  Lightbox Plus is used to create overlay display images on the webpage and to automatically add the correct overlay links to images.  Lightbox Plus captures the image title for display.

You can download it and get support on the Lightbox Plus page.

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