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Lightview Plus is a wordpress plug-in which integrates Lightview into your wordpress blog and automatically changes all image links, so the images will open with lightview. Now, it is possible to show videos from YouTube and Vimeo with lightview.
Installation
- Copy the lightview-plus directory to the wordpress plug-in directory under /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 plug-in in the plug-in menu
- That’s it!
Update
To backup the lightview javascript on update, it is possible to activate a backup function in the options menu.
Embed Images
- Choose an image of your choice, as you have done it in wordpress many times
- Create a link with this image to a bigger version of this image
- All the rest is done from lightview-plus automatically
Examples for Images
Embed Videos
- Click the new button „Embed Video“
- In the pop-up choose the portal you want to use (at the moment only YouTube and Vimeo. More in one of the next version).
- Insert the video id
- Choose, if you want a link text under the video
- Enter the link text
- Click INSERT
Find out the Video ID
- YouTube: http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=DYgZOY2g27w
- Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/1573042
- Blip.TV: It’s a little bit complicated. To show the this blip.tv video, you have to click on the share button. Under „embed episode“ find in the embed code this URL: http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#hPt7gu3pUgI . The highlighted part is the one you need to run the video with lightview plus
Example for Video
Download
You find the current version under wordpress.org
FAQ
Nothing is opened with lightview?
In you theme the <?php wp_head(); ?> is missing. Please, add it.
Images are still not opened with lightview!
Maybe an other plug-in uses jQuery or an older version of prototype oder scriptaculous. Deactivate the plug-ins or let me know if you found an alternative.
I added images to my text, but they are not clickable and they are not shown with lightview.
You have to create a link to the image. E. g. create a link from the image to the same image or a bigger one.
Is there a jQuery version of lightview?
I am not the author of lightview. I have done a wrapper for wordpress. Please, ask the author of lightview and let me know about the alternative.
Lightview does not work in browser xy on OS yz. / How do I change the display of lightview?
I have no look into the lightview javascript code. Please, ask the author of lightview.
Current Version
The actual version is v3.1. Now, it supports YouTube, blip.tv and Vimeo videos.
Translation
Everyone is invited to send me a translated language pack of lightview-plus. Now, we have the following languages integrated:
- German — myself
- Italian — Gianni Diurno
- French — Martin Vauchel
- Turkish — Cem Gedik
- Portuguese/Brasil — Eduardo Enrietti
- Russian — M. Comfi
- Dansk - Georg S. Adamsen
- Spanish — Eduardo Vázquez
- Dutch - Rene
Donate
If you think this plug-in is useful or you want support, don’t hesitate to donate. Lightview Plus has required a great deal of time and effort to develop. If it’s been useful to you then you can support this development by making a small donation. This will act as an incentive for me to carry on developing it, providing countless hours of support, and including any enhancements that are suggested. If you don’t have a clue how much you want to spend, the average of the last donations were €8. But every other amount is welcome. Please note, that PayPal takes for every transaction round about €0.50. So every donation below €1 is only a donation to PayPal 
Further you have the options to have a look at my amazon wishlist.
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Hello,
Thank you very much for plugin, it’s working fine
But I have a question though… How can I do if I want to insert it in a widget or in a sidebar?
Thank you in advance for your answer
If you want to insert images, have a look at the lightview javascript site for the syntax. The plugin doesn’t do it automatically!
Hello,
The plugin works great, thanks a bunch. I do have a question that I hope you can help me with.
Example
http://gamingunwrapped.com/2011/01/17/us-nintendo-downloads-%E2%80%93–01-17–2011/
Under each video it has the text Youtube —
I know somehow you can put the title of the video there, but I would rather take it out all together as most times the youtube video already has the title on it. Where can I take that out of in the code, so it won’t show up anymore
Nevermind, after looking at the settings, I noticed you have a way to turn it off. Turns out I’m just an idiot. Thanks for the help…it never dawned on me to look in the settings first.
Hello,
I started using the plugin about a month ago, with some Vimeo videos. It worked fine, but all of a sudden I get error messages from Vimeo saying there was a „problem loading the video“. I made no alterations to the plugin or site; it just stopped working. Any ideas as to why?
The URL is http://www.turntableevents.com/weddings
Ha! Great! I uploaded an actual version of lightview plus weeks ago and isn’t still active on wordpress. Sorry, it will come now!
I love the plugin it has worked very well up until a week ago. My images and youtube still load but None of my vimeo links work. I deleted all other plugins and still doesn’t work. Any help would be appreciated.
http://www.thepiratejournals.com/?page_id=8
I’m having the same problem. Vimeo just stopped working. Youtube works fine.
Same to you Bob, please install the current working version and let me know!
This problem was fixed with version 2.5.3.5. I downloaded this version from wordpress.org and as I see, this problem is really fixed. So, could you download it from the wordpress.org plugin site and reinstall it? Please, let me know, if you still have the same problem after the reinstall or it will work. Thanks!
Yes, works great now!
Thank you so much!
Wow — very strange — I had run the automatic updater inside wordpress and it still did not work. However when I deleted the plugin then reinstalled it it worked.
Thanks for a fantastic plugin and all your help!
Thanks for your replies, guys! I’ve uploaded a new version to wordpress.org in hope, that this install problem will fix
hello i have been using this plug in for a while now. worked great up until a few weeks ago as did everyone elses on vimeo. i erased the plugin and uploaded the updated version and still nothing. can you please help? please see this as an example: http://Hotmopfilms.com/videos/music-videos-2/
Dude Still Now Working With VIMEO!~
Followed Everything to a T… Still now working and with your New Update now no images are loading.…
@nutchopper do you mean not working?
do you have a link to show an example?
Here’s a rather basic question: how to control the size of the thumbnails?
http://www.michelesalmon.com/showreels/
I’m trying http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/video-thumbnails/ but apart from a brief appearance fails to have any effect
I’ve checked the defaults in media settings, maybe I should screenshot?
Hi Tom,
you can control it in the option menu of the plugin. You can define the size in pixel for the preview image and for the video seperatly.
And I think, you don’t need the video-thumbnails plugin (but I don’t know it).
Thanks very much Thorsten
I’ve updated the pages with a screenshot of the gallery settings at the foot of the
http://www.michelesalmon.com/showreels page.
It seems that those settings are being ignored, or I have done something wrong
Tom, you added a picture of a wordpress option page, not of the lightview plus option page. You have to change the the size of the preview images and video sizes on the lightview plus option page!
Thanks Thorsten
I added a screenshot of the lightview plus size options, but they don’t seem to affect the thumbnail size for either
http://www.michelesalmon.com/showreels/
or
http://www.michelesalmon.com/tv/
The difference between these is the first is using the lightview embed
[vimeo 14177217 nolink], the second using just the vimeo url plus the embed.ly wordpress plugin.
Have you ever looked into you css file? There is a definition for „#content img“ with the attribute „height: auto“. With this attribute, all size informations from lightview plus are ignored!
Thanks to Thorsten for pointing out my css showed height:auto — I thought this was safe as it’s there by default in twentyten theme. Also the non-playback was most likely an issue on my safari where click to flash may have disabled this playback.
thank you for providing this promessing plugin.
could anybody please help me to get it run? thank you!!!
i installed & activated +
here my blip.tv embed code: http://pastebin.com/iEHJmHzX
which i want use
thank you!
You use jQuery and prototype (last one is for lightview) mixed in one page. That doesn’t work.
PS: Oben ist ein Link zu der deutschen Version dieser Seite wo du auch in deutsch schreiben kannst!
OK I deactivated jquery (by guessing it was called by slidedeck,) so you can see lightview plus is now working, but the preview thumbnails still don’t shrink and for some reason playback in disabled in the nice pop-ip
here is the site:
http://www.sprecherin-danafriedrich.com/DF/?page_id=106
doesn’t come up in a lightbox nor does it show the indicated image size (128×90)
thank you!
Nice ad — shame about the phone
Your embed code in paste bin shows
width=„470“ height=„290“
On your site it displays 631×331
When I click it goes straight to flash full screen mode.
ok, thank you! ..but what is the problem? i don’t want that it goes straight to flash full screen mode…
Have you tried disabling jquery?
As Tom and I wrote — the problem is jQuery, which you use in your theme.
I’m having the same problem — my video is going strait to full screen. I’m experimenting on this page — http://caseyculver.com/test/ — where you can see my problem.
I tried to to remove jquery by adding wp_deregister_script(‚jquery‘); in place of wp_enqueue_script; on my theme’s functions.php file.
Is there something else I need to do? I really want to get the lightview up and running!
And as described, you have to disable all plugins, that uses jQuery or you have to modify them, to run in compatible mode with prototype.
Or, you use my other plugin: TopUp Plus, which runs with jQuery and so you doesn’t have any issues with two javascript frameworks
Your TopUp Plugin worked perfectly!
Hi,
You plugin looks wonderful with pictures and videos ans works fine.
The only problem is that Youtube videos does not work when „rel=„nofollow““ is activated. For Vimeo, i don’t know, i have’nt tried.
The plugin used for the nofollow is „External Links“ ver 4.0.6
Thank you for your plugin and for the solution to come.
Patrick.
Please, ask the author of that plugin. This plugin is breaking my plugin not vice versa.
Could you give me some details for the author of the other plugin to find a solution?
Thanks.
The only reason for me to install a nofollow and _blank plugin is that it’s a brand blog and i don’t want all the world’s spammers comments. I have my personnal blog with dofollow comments but i I moderate comments before publication. This blog will be a place for visitors to discuss their own experience in the use of their equipment and it is essential to publish comments immediately.
Thank you to Google translation which is very useful to make readable sentences.
On his forum, he has deleted my 1st message and on the 2nd he told me that the plugin is okay and he won’t change anything !
I have made a screen capture and as i have the opportunity to publish it, i will do it.
For those who are interested to uninstall it, this plugin is „External Links“ and the site is „semiologic.com“.
As soon as he replied this, i uninstalled his plugin and i am looking for another „nofollow+_blank (external)“ plugin.
Thanks for all.
Hi Patrick,
I have a question to your approach. Why to you want to add to all your external links the nofollow attribute?
The internet lives from linking to other sites! Please, can you explain me you decision!