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Lightbox plugin help getting started [message #166801]

Sun, 26 February 2012 15:35

ShineOn

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Running FUDforum 3.0.3. Getting very close to launch and want to have a gallery available, and thought it would be cool to use Lightbox instead of having full-blown images in forum posts.

I enabled the included Lightbox gallery plugin, but there are no instructions on the documentation wiki on how to use it. The directions on the author's website is for using it generically on a website or blog, nothing specific on how to implement it in FUDforum.

Can someone who knows how to use it in FUDforum please write up some easy-to-follow instructions? Instructions that don't assume that an admin is necessarily an expert PHP, HTML or Javascript programmer, suitable for adding to the documentation Wiki's plugins page, would be much appreciated. I, and other admins like me that don't have the time or skillset (yet) to reinvent the wheel and figure out how to implement the plugin by trial-and-error, thank you.

I have to learn more about JQuery anyway because I have a misbehaving Wordpress plugin, but I am hoping you kind folks can at least give me a starting point on how to implement the Lightbox plugin.

Thanks in advance...

<edit> - looking deeper, this might be a bug... if it is supposed to just work, it's not... </edit>

[Updated on: Mon, 27 February 2012 02:05]

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Re: Lightbox plugin help getting started [message #166804 is a reply to message #166801]

Mon, 27 February 2012 03:13

naudefj

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Well yes, if you enable the plugin it should just work. It is enabled here on this site, and works great for images. However, it doesn't work well for non-image attachments. I hope we will be able to fix it before the next release.

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