In this post, I will describe a WordPress plugin which you can use for adding a lightbox or modal window to display images, html, maps, videos, login box, image galleries, text, flash content, iframe, JavaScript, Ajax and buttons in a WordPress blog. When you are running a blog there are several occasions when you want to make sure that a particular content should be looked by as many visitors as possible. It could be your RSS subscription page, social network link, a recent photo that you took, a map location where you recently visited or any video recorded by you. To have more subscribers browse your content the best option is to use a lightbox plugin to display your content. A lightbox is a box that pops up when a user visits your website. The best part of the lightbox is that a user has to see it because it floats at the top of the page and you have to close it for further browsing. But you have to make sure that your lightbox is not obtrusive to your visitors. You can set up intervals so that you can display your lightbox only on the first visit. You can change all these settings by using a lightbox plugin.
Here are the features of this plugin:
1) Create custom lightbox: You can create a custom lightbox by using this plugin. You can add images, html, maps, and videos in the lightbox. You also have the option to add image galleries, buttons, text, flash content, iframe, JavaScript, Ajax and login box in the lightbox. Effects of the lightbox can be changed as per your needs. You can set up move duration and resize duration in milliseconds.
2) Change background color: You can change the background color for the lightbox.
3) Enable Modal window: From the plugin settings page, you can enable or disable modal window for lightbox.
4) Lightbox theme: This plugin comes with pre-designed lightbox themes which you can use for quickly creating a lightbox in your blog.
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