WP fancybox

WP fancybox plugin adds fancybox lightbox effect to your WordPress website. The lightbox looks great on desktop as well as mobile devices.

WP fancybox Features

• Responsive lightbox popup using fancybox
• Designed with a mobile first approach so it looks great on desktop, mobile and tablet devices
• Quick and easy setup
• Open lightbox popup from either a text link or a thumbnail image link
• YouTube video popup
• Vimeo video popup
• Use a simple shortcode to pop up content in lightbox

How to Use WP fancybox

Image in lightbox

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

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" 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_fancybox_media url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/overlay.jpg" hyperlink="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/images/thumb.jpg"] 

YouTube video in lightbox

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video"] 

Vimeo video in lightbox

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://vimeo.com/1084537" hyperlink="click here to pop up vimeo video"] 

Caption in lightbox

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

Alternate Text for an Image

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

Custom CSS

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

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video" class="custom_class"] 

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

[wp_fancybox_media url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_g" hyperlink="click here to pop up youtube video" class="custom_class custom_class2"] 

For detailed documentation please visit the WordPress fancybox plugin page