Plugin: wp-colorbox (Used by 1,500 domains)

WP Colorbox plugin is a simple lightbox tool for WordPress. It allows users to pop up content in lightbox using the popular jQuery ColorBox library. They can also view the larger version of a particular media file without leaving the page.

Features

• Beautiful lightbox popup style
• Flexiblity of creating your own lightbox link
• Pop up custom/HTML content in lightbox
• Trigger lightbox from either a text/image link
• Add lightbox to a YouTube or Vimeo video link
• Enable lightbox functionality on your site which supports modern browsers
• Use a simple shortcode to pop up a media file in lightbox
• Apply lightbox effect on images inserted into WordPress post/page
• Open external page in lightbox using iframe
• Responsive lightbox popup which works on mobile devices. Also it fits perfectly on smaller screens.

How to Use WP Colorbox

Pop up image in lightbox

Create a new post/page and use the following shortcode to create a text/image link which will trigger lightbox once clicked:

[wp_colorbox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" type="image" hyperlink="click here to pop up image"]

here, url is the link to the media file that you wish to open in lightbox and hyperlink is the anchor text/image.

[wp_colorbox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" type="image" hyperlink="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/thumb.jpg"]

Pop up YouTube video in lightbox

[wp_colorbox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nmp3Ra3Yj24" type="youtube" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video"]

Pop up Vimeo video in lightbox

[wp_colorbox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1284237" type="vimeo" hyperlink="click here to pop up vimeo video"]

Specify an Alternate Text for an Image

[wp_colorbox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" title="overlay image" type="image" hyperlink="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/thumb.jpg" alt="Thumbnail image description"]

Apply Custom CSS

You can specify your own CSS class in the shortcode to customize a text/image link.

[wp_colorbox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nmp3Ra3Yj24" type="youtube" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video" class="custom_class"]

Multiple CSS classes can be separated with a space. For example:

[wp_colorbox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nmp3Ra3Yj24" type="youtube" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video" class="custom_class custom_class2"]

For detailed documentation please visit the WordPress Colorbox plugin page