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Lightview Plus is a wordpress plugin which integrates Lightview into your wordpress blog and automatically chages all image links, so the images will open with lightview. The plugin uses a compress version of prototype and scriptacolous - called protocolous - to save bandwidth.
Installation
- Copy the lightview-plus directory to the wordpress plugin directory /wp-content/
- Download Lightview javascript and decompress it
- Copy the directories “css”, “images” and “js” of the decompressed folder to /wp-content/plugins/lightview-plus/
- Activate the plugin in the plugin menu
- That’s it!
Examples
Download
You find the current version under wordpress.org
Current Version
After removing the lightview-javascript due to gpl licencse problems, version 1.1.10 ist up to date!
Donate
If you think this plugin is useful or you want support, don’t hesitate to donate 1 euro for it. Please remember that further developement and support are done in my spare time.
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Hm, do Nick Stakenburg charge us for a license for Lightview now??
It seems so! But I think $3 is worth for his good script!
I agree with you, Thorsten. I bough the $3 license last night!
Yes, you have to pay for it now.
So did I. The Euro is 1.5 Dollar right now, so I don’t mind at all!
@Phil
OK, if you want to donate a little bit more, don’t hesitate to press my donate button, too
I bought the license today and just waiting for the javascript, I am hoping this will reduce my amount of queries by disabling lightbox and a script I use to auto add the rel tag.
thank you
@JamesT
You have to download the lightview-javascript on the website of the author. You do not get anything per email.
The Plugin doesn’t read the title!
Wordpress write the tags in this way:
In this case you doesn’t see the title.
If you change it to:
you see the title on the picture.
Can you have a look at it?
That is not true! The standard wordpress installation does not write the title-tag to the a-href-tag. Today, you have to do it manually.
I have a look, what I can to in one of the next version.
It’s nice but it will be very slow down when your visitor using internet explorer under 7.0
hmmm I have 2 installation of a german wordpress and both put the title tag behind the img tag and not behind the a tag.
its the installation form the german wordpress site. Is here anyone who can give me a hint where I can change this?
In the mean time I will change it in html-text.
@catur
Please contact Nick Stakenburg - the author of the lightview-javascript (url is in the text above). I did only the integration of the javascript into wordpress
@klausing
thank you for your idea you wrote my by email…
Hi!
I’ve already updated lightview throught my wordpress automatically and the plugin doesn’t work anymore…
Do i need anything to install o anything to be written in HTML code ?
Thanks
Please read the installation instructions above. You have to copy the lightview-javascript into the plugin directory manually.
I am having an issue after i installed this plugin, the text editor is not showing properly. Have any idea why could that be? :O
This plugin don’t do anything in the admin panel. So, it can’t be the plugin if your texteditor isn’t working proper…
Doesn’t the lightview window resizes after the image size?
My image is at 640×480 but it is shrinked down
Yes, that’s lightview
Read here http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/lightview/ to get more informations about it!
Oh! I now read about the smartsizing option! Turned it to false and now the findow fit the image size and not the viewport!
Thorsten, I apologize now for how lengthy this post will be. I’m having some difficulty getting Lightview set up using the Lightview-Plus plugin. I posted my issue over at Nick Stakenburg’s site, and he advised I contact you. I’ll just paste in the contents of the initial discussion post I submitted to Nick. Here goes:
In conjunction with Lightview, I’m also using the WordPress Lightview-Plus plugin and the WordPress Cleaner Gallery plugin. Prior to installing Lightview, I had experimented with Photo Xhibit using Lightbox, but I have now removed Photo Xhibit from the plugins folder.
The images have been uploaded and styled with CSS as desired. However, the class for the images is currently showing as “lightbox”, and the rel is showing as “lightbox[cleaner-gallery-413]“. I’m not sure how to go about getting the class for the images to show as “lightview” and the rel to show as ‘gallery[myset]‘. I also don’t know what term I’m supposed to put in place of [myset].
My main reason for writing is due to not getting the Lightview effect when I click on a thumbnail. Instead, the enlarged image opens up in a new, white window with the image positioned at the top left of the window. Is this solely due to not having the class set to “lightview”? Firebug is also displaying the error “Prototype is not defined.”
When I check for HTML validation, I get one error, as follows:
Line 109, Column 32: document type does not allow element “div” here; missing one of “object”, “applet”, “map”, “iframe”, “button”, “ins”, “del” start-tag.
<dt class=”galle
However, if I remove the gallery images from the page, the page *will* validate. So I assume that error has to do with the Cleaner Gallery plugin?
Here’s the code I’ve inserted into my header file:
The Lightview directories (css, images and js) are located inside the wp-content/plugins/lightview-plus folder.
This test gallery can be seen at http://www.lewisvillephotos.com/photo-moment-1
END POST
Nick replied that he didn’t think I had the link to my javascript files set correctly, and that setting the correct rel and class attributes is required. This is my first gallery, and I don’t know how the link to the javascript files should be corrected. I also don’t understand why the rel and class attributes are not showing up correctly. Is that possibly due to having previously used Photo Xhibit and Lightbox, even though they’re no longer installed?
I would really like to get Lightview to work. Please help if you can.
Thank you.
Deb
I see the code I inserted into my header doesn’t show up. Let me try that again here — I’m gong to leave out the angel brackets. Maybe that’ll get it through:
link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”css/lightview.css” /
script type=’text/javascript’ src=’js/prototype-1.6.0.2.js’ /script
script type=’text/javascript’ src=’js/scriptaculous-js-1.8.1/src/scriptaculous.js?load=effects’
/script
script type=’text/javascript’ src=’js/lightview.js’ /script
ALL ANGLE BRACKETS HAVE BEEN REMOVED. Hope this works.
Deb, you can remove your added header. lightview.js, scriptacolous and prototype are loaded by the lightview-plus plugin.
And please remove for testing the “sharethis.com”- entry in the header and test it again.
I can’t see a problem in your html.
Thorsten, I removed the redundant javascript files I’d added to the header — and I also removed the first line that had been added for the lightview.css file. (Please let me know if I should not have deleted the lightview.css line.) I’ve also temporarily deactivated the ShareThis plugin. But…Lightview is still not working.
Does the Firebug error “Prototype is not defined” give any clue?
I’ve still got to find out why I’m getting that single HTML error — will need to contact the Cleaner Gallery plugin author on that.
Can you think of any other troubleshooting steps that make sense to check?
I appreciate your getting back with me. This issue has consumed my whole day!
Possible, that my plugin is not completely uploaded to you webspace or maybe there is an incomabtilility with an other javascript.
But I am not an JS expert.
If I may, I’d like to ask a few more questions, Thorsten.
1) There were some previous comments here that your plugin has some issues with WP 2.5.1. Is that still the case, or not? (I’m just trying to cover all the bases!
)
2) Do you know whether there would be conflicts that might keep Lightview from working if I had previously installed and run Lightbox and some other gallery scripts that came with another plugin? When such scripts are installed or run, do you know if any of them leave any remnants in the WP files, even after a gallery plugin’s directory has been removed from the server?
Thank you!
Dear, me again. I had to deactivate the plugin in wordpress because it was crashing on IE6 (Operation aborted, page cant be loaded). And only disabling this plugin it would stop doing the crashing.
Any ideas?
hi, can anyone show me how to make the ligthview- box works?
1.create a post
2. Add images in post
3. then???
thank you
@Deb
1.) No, there was never a problem with WP 2.5.1. They talked about the gallery-tag function, which was never implemented in lightview-plus (but in the next version)
2.) Not, than I know
@Gis
Reinstall your computer, use firefox or better … a mac
I think there is a link to an image in you blog entry, which do not exist anymore.
@gulfee
You are right. Create a post, add an link TO an image. Thats it!
I use firefox, my problem is that most of the people doesnt, so theyd get the error
Dear Thorsten,
Firstly thanks for your nice work. I have Lightbox as default and I use a script to add automatically the rel tags for the presentations of my pictures, when I disable lightbox and enable Lightview plus, I notice that it does not convert all the pictures to the lightview tag and leaves the pictures with no popup.
I hope it makes sense please let me know if I need to supply you with more info
Do you disabled your plugin which adds automatically the rel-lightbox-thing? And have you looked to your HTML-Source which HTML-tags are set to the linked images?
Hi Thorsten,
I also disable the script that adds the rel lightbox tag, I will enable the plugin and post the HTML tag you ask.
thank you
< a title="Louie Vignette" rel="nofollow" >< /a >
hope this helps
James, send me a link to an IMAGE, please. Not a normal link.
As I can see on you webpage, you have lightbox enabled and not lightview.
I think I know what your problem is. All imagelink have two rel= “lightbox” tags and a class=”thickbox”. With both, it will not work!
I have enabled it thorsten and any of the front page photos are now lightview
As described above, all your your links to the images have a rel=”lightbox”-tag and a class=”thickbox”-tag. And you have also lightbox-2 enabled.
So, you know where you have to work on and what is causing your problem!
thorsten thank you that is exactly what is causing the issue ….. I now have to manually remove the thickbox class and it works
Thorsten. all ok apart from one major issue concerning IE 7.0 5730.13 when your plugin is activated it timesout the browser and nobody can connect. The error is server timedout check that your connected to the internet. I disabled your plugin and it clears ….
Any help greatly appreciated.
check, if all links on your webpage don’t throw a 404-error or edit the lightview.js file and set preloadHover to false.
the add-ons doesn’t work on my site…in fact it doesn’t work anymore after i update the wordpress..help..
Have you read the installation notes above on this site? You have to copy the lightview javascript manually to the plugin directory due to license things.
Hi Thorsten,
I have no 404’s on my main page and I have changed the preload to false and I still have the IE browser crashing….
firefox and safari are fine btw
You can click on all pictures on your site and all of them are ok? If so, please ask the author of the lightview javascript.
Man, I fiddled with this for quite a while before switching the theme back to wordpress default. Apparently, the theme I was using hardcoded something that prevented the effects from working.
I can’t seem to get this working. I have done exactly what this says, how do I get it where when they click the image it works?
Matt, only add a link to an image (eg. < a href="http://example.jpg>blabla< / a > ). The plugin does the rest during generating the website…
So just do < a href="imageurl" rel="nofollow" >< /a > ? or < a href="imageurl" rel="nofollow" >< /a >
both
I just can’t seem to get it to work
Nvm, works now. Thanks for your help Thorsten!
it works. seems it was my mistake~
btw.. i really wanna donate you… but i don’t think you need CNY. but the good news is i’ll goto US next term, so that i can do this at that time~
Thanks for your help.
@Acedia
Thank you. You find a PayPal Donation button in the text above
@Matt
The same to you
I have had issues with IE 6 and 7 crashing and I have asked over at Nick Stakenburgs site and he doesnt have an answer, I would urge all WP users to test it before paying for something that is broke.
I am looking into ie7.js over at Google code to see if it can be fixed in a band aid fashion, bummer, yet another layer to get it working. My gut feeling is that IE does not like PNG format and crashes.
ie7.js from google code to force IE to cooperate. As a band aid anyway.
http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/
I load posts with Ajax and would like to know what JS call I should make to refresh the Lightview plugin so it will catch the newly loaded images.
Thanks
Dirk, ask the author of the lightview javascript. I did only a wp plugin of for this…
James, I tested lightview with IE7 in a virtual machine on my mac and I saw now problems. May it is your computer with a problem…?
I am having a conflict with Lightview Plus and embedded video in IE.
The browser blinks a dialog box that says it cannont open and then does not open the page.
Any idea about the cause or have a solution?
Otherwise, I think it is a Fantastic piece of code!
Thorsten,
I hope this isn’t a repeat question.
I have switched to your plugin, after using another LightBox JS Plugin. Before I had to put rel=”lightbox” or rel=”lightbox[album-name]” in the code.
I am glad I do not have to do this anymore, but for all my previous posts it still has the code in and your plugin does not work for those.
Do you know how to get the plugin to work with images already with rel=”lightbox” in it?
Thanks In Advance!
Okizoo
@Buttermaker
The IE throws this error, if a linked image on your webpage does not exists. Check all your links or edit the lightview.js you added to the plugin directory and change “preloadHover” to false
@Okizoo
Sorry, but you have to correct the links manually and remove them. Maybe I add something in a future version, but I do not promise….
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I clearly have done something wrong. Please help me and tell me what it is!
I am using NextGen gallery as the admin front end to this plug in. with that, I have gone to the admin panel - Gallery - Options - Effects and selected a Custom Effect with the following line of code:
class=”lightview” rel=”gallery[%GALLERY_NAME%]”
I draft a post, include a NextGen Gallery in it and when I preview it, I see all the thumbnails in the post, but when I click on a thumbnail, I get the Lightview effects, but no image. Also, the buttons (previous, next, play, close) are all visible (at least in Firefox, but not in Explorer) but are not functional.
Ideas?
Thanks -
Conrad
dear friend,
i have a website which uses feed wordpress plugin
can i have this plugin to push the content of all the external links using rel=iframe automatic
site is http://www.justkuwait.net/blog
@Conrad
you have copied the lightview-javascript into the plugin-directory of lightview-plus?
@Rejoy
not with the plugin automatically
Thorsten,
In that case how do you do this manually
Rejoy,
at in the a-tag a rel=’iframe’. For further details, look at the lightview-javascript website. You find the link in the top text!
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Thorsten… is there a fix to allow Captions/Titles to display under the photos in Lightview (with WP 2.5.1)?
I have another blog that DOES display titles, but I couldn’t duplicate it here. (The other blog used IMP Auto slimbox)
Thanks
You can use the plugin “Flexible Upload” which adds after the upload the title-attribute to the a-tag or you can do it manually by adding the title-attribute to the a-tag.
Trying out the plugin - Purchased the lightview code, copied the directories over to the proper locations, and when an image is clicked it just opens as if it were a normal link to an image.
I narrowed it down to the e-commerce plugin I am using, wp-ecommerce, these 2 plugins do not seem to play nice together. What should I do?
Any help would be appreciated.
Mike