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Learn how to use Lightbox Plus ColorBox Complete Video Tutorial

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Lightbox Plus WordPress Plugin video guide
Lightbox Plus WordPress Plugin video guide

The other day I ran across what is probably the best video guide to learn how to use Lightbox Plus ColorBox and easily add fancy light box photo effects to your WordPress site. I wish I could say that I created it, but frankly writing tutorials, guides and documentation is not my forte.
The author of this excellent guide is Philip Gledhill and he does an brilliant job covering all aspects of Lightbox Plus ColorBox.  The tutorial is available on Philip’s site as Lightbox Plus WordPress Plugin video guide. If you are trying to get a better understanding of how to use Lightbox Plus ColorBox I can’t recommend his guide enough!

Lightbox Plus ColorBox 2.6; HTML5 valid code option, better gallery handling

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Abandoned Sand Castle
Abandoned Sand Castle

Lightbox Plus ColorBox has been release at version 2.6 which includes additional fixes for WordPress galleries not loading correctly and the option to output HTML5 valid code. There are now 26 styles included with Lightbox Plus ColorBox.

See the change log after the jump for details.

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Lightbox Plus 2.5.4 Available, Gallery Fixes and a Dozen New Styles

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New River Gorge
New River Gorge

Lightbox Plus has been updated version 2.5.4 which includes fixes for WordPress galleries not loading correctly and and update to correct lightboxing galleries based on the Use for WP Gallries checkbox. In addition there are over a dozen new styles added for Lightbox Plus.

See the change log after the jump for details.
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Lightbox Plus 2.5.3 Now Out, Bugfixes and up to 1000 inline lightboxes

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Mississippi River Crossing, Helena, AR
Mississippi River Crossing, Helena, AR

I have updated Lightbox Plus version 2.5.3 which includes additional fixes to the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser and the ability to have up to 1000 inline lightboxes.  More importantly I corrected a problem for servers that don’t have the PHP mbstring extension installed.

See the change log after the jump for details.
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Lightbox Plus 2.5 released with new features and WordPress 3.5 compatibility

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Cherrywood Coffeehouse, Austin, TX
Cherrywood Coffeehouse, Austin, TX

Lightbox Plus is updated to version 2.5.1 which include compatibility with WordPress 3.4 and 3.5 and also updated Colorbox to version 1.3.20. This release includes a major interface overhaul and additional features and options including the ability to position the lightbox in a specific location on a page, the ability to set the position of the lightbox to stay in the viewport even when the page is scrolled, per page usage of Lightbox Plus and the ability to auto-launch the lightbox on page load and specify lightboxes on individual pages.

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HubSpot for Gravity Forms Add-On

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Gravity Forms HubSpot Add-On
Gravity Forms HubSpot Add-On

I just released a new plugin that is an add-on for Gravity Form which allows leads generated in Gravity Forms to be fed into HubSpot.  The Gravity Forms HubSpot add-on let’s you use the HubSpot Lead API to send your Gravity Forms based landing page leads directly to HubSpot. All you need to do is add one setting and check a box when configuring your forms.  All your form entries will then be added to HubSpot from now on. Integrating with HubSpot has never been so simple.

You can grab the plugin right here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hubspot-for-gravity-forms/

Lightbox Plus Gallery Tutorial

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Learn how to add fancy lightbox effects to your images in WordPress. You can add the lightbox effect to individual images or all images, and your photo galleries. Lightbox Plus is a small easy to use lightweight plugin. It’s a good compliment to the more powerful and more complicated NextGEN Gallery.

From Lightbox Plus (fancy photos) @ Using WordPress

Lightbox Plus Gallery Tutorial
Lightbox Plus Gallery Tutorial

Many thanks to the creator of this wonderful tutorial!

Lightbox Plus 2.4.5 – WordPress 3.3. Compatibility

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First fire of the season
First fire of the season

Lightbox Plus is updated to version 2.4.5 which include compatibility with WordPress 3.3 and also updated Colorbox to version 1.3.19. This is an interim release to bring Lightbox Plus up to compatibility with version 3.3 or WordPress. I am currently in the process of preparing a beta release of version 2.5 which has a major interface overhaul as well as the addition of numerous options such as the ability to position the lightbox in a specific location on a page, the ability to set the position of the lightbox to stay in the viewport even when the page is scrolled, per page usage of Lightbox Plus and the ability to auto-launch the lightbox on page load.

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Salesforce Add-On for Gravity Forms (bug fix)

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Gravity Forms - WordPress Form Management
Gravity Forms - WordPress Form Management

UPDATE: The issue issue fixed as of version 1.1.1 so I am removing my hotfix as it is no longer needed. Thank to Zack Katz creator of the Gravity Forms Salesforce Add-on for the quick fix.

I use Gravity Forms for a lot of things.  Recently I needed to integrate some forms with Salesforce the wildly popular CRM system.  At first I developed a more or less manual method to post the form information to Salesforce and redirect back to the confirmation page.  This was impractical in that every time one of the content contributors needed to create form that would post to Salesforce I had to manually build the redirect. By chance I was looking for something else in the WordPress plugin repository and ran across the Gravity Forms Salesforce Add-on.

This plugin is a free Salesforce Add-On for Gravity Forms that adds contacts directly into Salesforce, making lead generation even easier to use with WordPress.  The plugin advertised that it added one setting, a check a box when configuring your forms, and all of those form entries would be added to Salesforce.  There was only one problem.  Checkbox or no the plugin was posting every form to Salesforce, which meant that many forms that shouldn’t be posting contact information to Salesforce were doing so.
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New Forums Soon

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Roman Forum and Colosseum
Roman Forum and Colosseum (credit: rmlowe)

I’m switching the forums back to bbPress now that there is a bbPress WordPress plugin for it.  I’m going to try to port all the messages back but there I’m not sure how that will work out.  So please be patient if you feel you need to post to the forums.  I had previously used bbPress but is seemed that no progress was being made regarding development so I switched to Mingle Forum.  Turns out bbPress was more useful – I was able to track topics better and respond better to posts. So that said I need to fix a few style issue and and try to port the posts back to bbPress and then the forums will be available once again.

UPDATE: In retrospect I’ve decided not to import the existing forum content for a couple of reasons.  One, I don’t have the time to do it.  And, two, I’d just like to start fresh with the forums and simplify them.

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