Lightbox Plus is now up to version 2.1 which replaces the regular expression method for adding lightboxes to content with a new HTML parser method.  Thus far it seems to be much more accurate in interpreting HTML and correctly identifying elements to lightbox.  I also added the option to have your styles live outside of the Lightbox plugin directory which will enable custom styles sets that don’t get removed during upgrades.  There are some other changes as well, follow the jump for all the details.
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I’ve been thinking about this for a while now. When I originally wrote Lightbox Plus is was pretty simple and didn’t need to do much – so I used regular expressions to find links to images and modify the links to support lightboxing before WordPress returned them. Now however Lightbox Plus does much more and I’m still using regular expressions. There are numerous problems that seem to stem from this such as not catching every image link on the page especially test links that are separated by a space or a word. So now I am planning on adding a real HTML parser to Lightbox Plus – probably something like PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser

A major flaw was pointed out to me by Milan Petrovic in that the styles (and really the scripts too) in the admin panel were being queued up all across the admin panel. While the scripts were really causing any problems the styles were an issue for plugins that used jQuery UI. I’ve corrected this issue and made a few other modifications while I was at it including some streamlining of code and reduction of JavaScript sizes.

Get the full details and download link after the jump.
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I just released Lightbox Plus version 2.0.1. Didn’t even get a chance to post about version 2.0 before I did an update. This version includes a number of new features such as the ability to add a secondary lightbox that can include video or flash and inline lightboxes that allow the display of inline content. I also made some improvements to the admin panel on its way to a new interface. See the full list of changes from version 1.6.9.7 to version 2.0.1 after the jump.
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I noticed that the code to cleanup the doubled rel="lightbox[]" attributes had a nasty couple of changes to it that I forgot to remove after testing. As a result it was removing the href from the link in manually added lightbox attributes and was breaking lightbox completely. See the one line change log and download links after the jump.
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I just discovered this lovely bug this morning. Basically the regular expressions do some wierdness to links that remove the href from them and cause the xmlHTTPRequest to go into an infinite loop. I have a strong idea of where the problem is and hopefully will issue a fix soon. My apologies to anyone encountering this problem.
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Yet another point release for Lightbox Plus.  This release is primarily some additional bug fixes including usage of class method with auto-lightboxing of text links and the skipping of images during auto-lighboxing.  See the full change list after the jump.
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I’ve just updated Lightbox Plus to version 1.6.9.5 which addresses some IE issues that slipped through as well as a glaring issue with the way the backend code rendered JavaScript for the front end.  I also discovered that is was not possible to save setting if you were using SSL for the adminstration side of WordPress.  Change log after the jump.
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I’ve just released version 1.6.9 of Lightbox Plus.  It addresses a couple of issue that became apparent rather quickly.  Here’s the changelog:

1.6.9

• Fixed problem with styles in IE 6/7/8 not working under various circumstnaces (hopefully)
• Added the option to disable Lightbox Plus from adding it’s own styles allowing the user to place Lightbox/Colorbox styles in their theme stylesheet and reduce number of files loading.

You can find downloads for Lightbox Plus at wordpress.org and 23systems or download [Download not found] directly.

If you require support you can go to the Lightbox Plus message board.